1503

1503 (MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1500 1501 1502 – 1503 – 1504 1505 1506

1503 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1503 MDIII
Ab urbe condita	2256
Armenian calendar	952 ԹՎ ՋԾԲ
Assyrian calendar	6253
Balinese saka calendar	1424–1425
Bengali calendar	910
Berber calendar	2453
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 7 – 19 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2047
Burmese calendar	865
Byzantine calendar	7011–7012
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4199 or 4139     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4200 or 4140
Coptic calendar	1219–1220
Discordian calendar	2669
Ethiopian calendar	1495–1496
Hebrew calendar	5263–5264
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1559–1560
- Shaka Samvat	1424–1425
- Kali Yuga	4603–4604
Holocene calendar	11503
Igbo calendar	503–504
Iranian calendar	881–882
Islamic calendar	908–909
Japanese calendar	Bunki 3 (文亀３年)
Javanese calendar	1420–1421
Julian calendar	1503 MDIII
Korean calendar	3836
Minguo calendar	409 before ROC 民前409年
Nanakshahi calendar	35
Thai solar calendar	2045–2046
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1629 or 1248 or 476     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1630 or 1249 or 477

Events

• Erasmus: Enchiridion militis chritiani ("Handbook of the Christian Soldier").

Births

• August 12 – Christian III of Denmark and Norway