Timeline May 1703

Events in May 1703 3

• 1628 – 1703 Charles Perrault (1628-1703) Died 16 May 1703, aged 75 Charles Perrault was a French author who established the literary fairy tale as a genre, publishing versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Puss in Boots. His collection Histoires ou contes du temps passe became a foundation of Western children's literature.
• 1633 – 1703 Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Died 26 May 1703, aged 70 Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and diarist whose detailed private journal, kept from 1660 to 1669, offers an unmatched eyewitness account of Restoration London, including the Great Plague and the Great Fire. He later served as an influential administrator of the Royal Navy.
• 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg Peter the Great establishes his new capital on the Neva Peter the Great laid the foundations of the Peter and Paul Fortress on an island in the Neva River delta, marking the founding of Saint Petersburg. The city became Russia's "window on the West" and its capital for over two centuries.