Editing 1603 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; On the Philippine island of [[Luzon]], the [[Sangley Rebellion]] against Spanish rule ends with the massacre of 20,000 [[Sangley]] [[Chinese people|Chinese]] residents in [[Manila]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~borao/2Profesores/massacre.pdf |title=The massacre of 1603: Chinese perception of the Spaniards in the Philippines |author=Jose Eugenio Borae |website=Homepage.ntu.edu.tw |access-date=2016-01-09}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Yemişçi Hasan Pasha]], the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]], is executed on orders of Sultan Mehmed III, after failing to respond more quickly to the Safavid Empire's actions to take Tabriz. The Sultan appoints [[Yavuz Ali Pasha]], the Ottoman Governor of Egypt to replace Yemişçi Hasan.
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618)]]: The Safavid Army of Iran, led by Emperor [[Abbas the Great]],  recaptures [[Tabriz]] from the Ottoman Empire after 15 years of Ottoman occupation. 
* [[November 15]] &ndash; Having recaptured Tabriz from the Ottoman Empire, Abbas the Great leads the Safavids in a siege of [[Yerevan]].
* [[November 17]] &ndash; Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] goes on trial for [[treason]], in the converted Great Hall of [[Winchester Castle]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/> He is found guilty, but his life is spared by [[James VI and I|King James I]] at this time, and he is returned to imprisonment in the [[Tower of London]].
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Rokugō rebellion]]: More than 1,000 ''[[rōnin]]'' rebel in support of their exiled lord, [[Onodera Yoshimichi]], in Japan.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The ghosts of Amakusa: localised opposition to centralised control in Higo Province, 1589–1590|last= Turnbull|first= Stephen|author-link= Stephen Turnbull (historian)|date = 2013|journal = Japan Forum|doi = 10.1080/09555803.2012.745586|publisher = [[Taylor & Francis]]|issue = 2|volume = 25|pages = 191–211|s2cid= 144893702}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; Sultan [[Mehmed III]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] dies, and is succeeded by his son [[Ahmed I]].
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Yavuz Ali Pasha]], who had been appointed by Mehmed III in October as [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]], arrives at Constantinople to begin service. He dies from illness seven months later.