Editing 1703 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 11]] &ndash; Nine Roman Catholic residents of the French village of [[Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge]] are massacred by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants, the [[Camisards]]. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Hannah Twynnoy]], a 24-year-old barmaid in [[Malmesbury]], [[Wiltshire]], becomes the first person to be killed in [[Great Britain]] by a [[tiger]]. While working at the White Lion Inn, where a group of wild animals is on exhibit, she is mauled after bothering the tiger.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; More than 47 [[Huguenots]] in the village of [[Branoux-les-Taillades]] are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack on nearby Sainte-Cécile, slightly more than two miles away.
* [[November 15]]
** [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Battle of Speyerbach]] (in modern-day Germany) &ndash; The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of [[Landau]] two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France.
** [[Rákóczi's War of Independence]]: [[Battle of Zvolen (1703)|Battle of Zvolen]] (in modern-day [[Slovakia]]) &ndash; The [[Kuruc]]s defeat the Austrians and their allies ([[Denmark]], [[Hungary]] and the [[Serbs]]).
* [[November 19]] &ndash; The so-called [[Man in the Iron Mask]] dies in the [[Bastille]]. He is buried under the name of "Marchioly".
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Isaac Newton]] is elected president of the [[Royal Society]] of London, a position he will hold until his death in [[1727]].
* [[December 7]]–[[December 10|10]] (November 26–29 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; The [[Great Storm of 1703]], an [[extratropical cyclone]], ravages southern England and the [[English Channel]], killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. The [[Eddystone Lighthouse]] off [[Plymouth]] is destroyed in the storm together with its designer [[Henry Winstanley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750|access-date=2018-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|archive-date=2007-08-17}}</ref> and many buildings on land are damaged.
* [[December 27]] &ndash; Portugal and England sign the [[Methuen Treaty]], which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England.
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Ahmed III]] succeeds the deposed [[Mustafa II]] as [[Ottoman Emperor]].