1903

Modèle:Year nav Modèle:C20YearInTopicX Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. Modèle:C20YearTOC The year 1903 also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar has not had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See: 1696.

Events of 1903

January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
January 6 - Mileva Maric marries Albert Einstein.
January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
February 15 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.
February 23 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

March 1 -Beşiktaş JK is founded in Istanbul, becoming the first sports club in the Ottoman Empire.
March 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 3 – British admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth.
March 5 – Turkey and Germany sign an agreement to build the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway.
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
March 22 - The American side of the Niagara Falls runs short of water.
March 31 - Possible first powered heavier-than-air flight, Richard Pearse, New Zealand (some date it to 1902)

April 14 - Aberdeen Football Club is formed.
April 18 - Bury F.C. Win the F.A. cup by beating Derby County 6-0
April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta.
May 18 - Opening of port of Burgas, Bulgaria.
May 22 - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
June 10-11 – Assassination of Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga.
June 12 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.

July 23: 1903 Ford Model A.

July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins.
July 4 - Completion of the Pacific cable by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company.
July 7 - British take over the Fulani empire.
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
August 2 - The Ilinden Uprising of the Macedonians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
August 4 - Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
August 10 - The Paris Metro train fire takes place.
August 25 - Judiciary Act 1903 is passed.

August 4: Pope Pius X becomes the new pope.

December 17: The first flight by the Wright brothers.

November 3 - With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
November 6 - USA recognizes independence of Panama.
November 17 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 23 - Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
November 23 - Opera tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in New York City with the Metropolitan Opera in Rigoletto.
December 17 - Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.

Lincoln-Lee Legion is established to promote temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
MLB is established.
Bradford City Football Club is established.