2003

2003 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	2003; MMIII
Ab urbe condita	2756
Armenian calendar	1452; ԹՎ ՌՆԾԲ
Assyrian calendar	6753
Bahá'í calendar	159–160
Balinese saka calendar	1924–1925
Bengali calendar	1410
Berber calendar	2953
British Regnal year	51 Eliz. 2 – 52 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2547
Burmese calendar	1365
Byzantine calendar	7511–7512
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse); 4699 or 4639; — to —; 癸未年 (Water Goat); 4700 or 4640
Coptic calendar	1719–1720
Discordian calendar	3169
Ethiopian calendar	1995–1996
Hebrew calendar	5763–5764
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2059–2060
- Shaka Samvat	1924–1925
- Kali Yuga	5103–5104
Holocene calendar	12003
Igbo calendar	1003–1004
Iranian calendar	1381–1382
Islamic calendar	1423–1424
Japanese calendar	Heisei 15; (平成１５年)
Javanese calendar	1935–1936
Juche calendar	92
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4336
Minguo calendar	ROC 92; 民國92年
Nanakshahi calendar	535
Thai solar calendar	2546
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་; (male Water-Horse); 2129 or 1748 or 976; — to —; ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་; (female Water-Sheep); 2130 or 1749 or 977
Unix time	1041379200 – 1072915199

2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Births

January 1 – Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
February 1 – Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed during re-entry. All seven astronauts on board died.
February 4 the Hindu minority of Bangladesh declare the sovereign state of Bangabhumi, recognised by UNPO.
March 20 – The US-led invasion of Iraq begins.
May 1 – US President George W. Bush announced the end of the invasion of Iraq.
July 10 – Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, was created.
October 30 – Wicked has its first show at the Gershwin Theatre in Broadway.
October 31 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.

March 2 – Hank Ballard, American R&B recording artist; singer and songwriter (b. 1927)
March 8 – Adam Faith, English singer, actor and financial journalist (b. 1940)
March 12 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)

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