1703

Events

Dated Events

Real World February 4. In Japan, forty-six of the legendary Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku. (The forty-seventh member was pardoned by the Shogun, and lived out the rest of his days.)

Real World May 27. St. Petersburg, Russia, is founded.

Real World November 19. The masked prisoner upon which the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask was founded dies in the Bastille.

Real World November 24. The Great Storm of 1703 begins afflicting southern England.

Real World December 2. The Great Storm of 1703 ends, having claimed several thousand lives.

Undated Events

• Star Wars, Star Wars (Expanded Universe): c. 1703 (112 BBY). C-3PO was manufactured. (From a C-3PO card from the Star Wars Customized Card Game. Also, the Star Wars Episode I Visual Dictionary states that his framework was 80 years old during The Phantom Menace.)

Real World Mustafa II is succeeded by Ahmed III as emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

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