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1703| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1703 | Japan [theatre and dance] | The play Sonezaki Shinyu/Love Suicides at Sonezaki, one of the first great works of bunraku (puppet) theatre, is performed, in Japan. Around this time its author, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, helps to turn bunraku into a major art form, often writing specifically for the famous singer Takemoto Gidayu. | | 21 April 1703 | Portugal, UK, United Netherlands, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | Portugal concludes a treaty with Britain and joins the Grand Alliance (Britain, the United Netherlands, and Austria) against France. | | 7 May 1703 | UK, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, United Netherlands, France [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | Allied forces under the English general John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, occupy the territory of France's ally the Imperial electorate of Cologne, and subsequently take Bonn, Limburg, Huy, and Guelders, clearing French forces from the lower Rhine. The Austrian general Prince Eugène of Savoy conducts a vigorous simultaneous campaign against French forces in the Rhineland and southern Germany. | | 25 May 1703 | England [births and deaths] | Samuel Pepys, English diarist whose diary provides a look at upper class life during the 1660s, dies in London, England (70). | | 17 June 1703 | England [births and deaths] | John Wesley, Anglican clergyman and evangelist who, with his brother Charles Wesley, founded the Methodist movement in the Church of England, born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England (–1791). | | 30 December 1703 | Japan [natural disasters] | An earthquake and resulting fire kills around 200,000 people and destroys the city of Edo (modern Tokyo), Japan. |
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