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{{Year in India|1503}}<br />
Events from the year '''1503 in India'''.<br />
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==Events==<br />
* January – [[Battle of Calicut (1502)|Battle of Calicut]]<br />
* March – August – [[Battle of Cochin (1504)#First siege of Cochin .281503.29|First siege of Cochin (1503)]]<br />
* Kingdom of [[Kochi, India|Kochi]] is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement in India<br />
* [[Unniraman Koyikal I]] reign as [[Kingdom of Kochi#As Portuguese and Dutch protectorate states|King of Cochin]] ends<br />
* [[Unniraman Koyikal II]] reign as King of Cochin begins<br />
*The Portuguese army under Commander Dom [[Afonso de Albuquerque]] who reached Cochin in 1503, defeated the enemies of the King of Cochin and in return he gave them permission to build a fort in Kochi<br />
*The ''[[Casa de Contratación]]'' was founded by Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] in 1503, eleven years after the discovery of the Americas in 1492.<ref name="Francis2006">{{cite book|author=John Michael Francis|title=Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMNoS-g1h8cC&pg=PA179|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-421-9|page=179}}</ref><br />
*[[Diogo Fernandes Pereira]] visited [[Socotra]], the first European to do so, and he discovered the Mascarenes archipelago<br />
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==Establishments==<br />
* [[Pallipuram Fort]] established by the Portuguese in [[Kerala]]<br />
* [[St. Francis Church, Cochin|St. Francis Church]], in [[Kochi (India)|Kochi]], [[Kerala]], the oldest European church in [[India]]<ref name="Kochi1">{{cite web|url=http://www.holidaysinkerala.org.uk/pilgrim-centers/st-francis-kochi.html |title=St. Francis Church |access-date=21 February 2008 |publisher=Wonderful Kerala |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317061736/http://www.holidaysinkerala.org.uk/pilgrim-centers/st-francis-kochi.html |archive-date=17 March 2008 |url-status=live |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>Ayub, Akber (ed), ''Kerala: Maps & More'', ''Fort Kochi'', 2006 edition 2007 reprint, pp. 20-24, Stark World Publishing, Bangalore, {{ISBN|81-902505-2-3}}</ref><br />
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==Births==<br />
* [[Gopala Bhatta Goswami]], one of the [[Six Goswamis of Vrindavana|goswamis of Vrindavana]] is born (dies [[1578 in India|1578]])<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
* [[Tuluva Narasa Nayaka]], Vijayanagar commander and prime minister<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Timeline of Indian history]]<br />
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