1603 in Ireland
Events from the year 1603 in Ireland.Events
- March 24 – James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I in England.
- March 31 – the Nine Years War is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.
- November – Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
- Ballintubber Abbey is suppressed.
- Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer since 1602, holds the first assizes in Ulster, at Donegal.
- Brian Óg na Samhthach Ó Ruairc, King of West Breifne is overthrown
Births
- Approximate date – Audley Mervyn, lawyer, politician and soldier
Deaths
- March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland
- William Piers, Governor of Carrickfergus
