1703
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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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