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| 1903 |
| | | Edwin S. Porter directs The Great Train Robbery, providing a big commercial success for Thomas Edison's film company | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X | |
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| 1903 |
| | | British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics | |
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| 1903 |
| | | A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Maurice Ravel sets to music romantic oriental poems by Tristan Klingsor in his song-cycle Shéhérazade | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama | |
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| 1903 |
| | | William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year | |
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| 1903 |
| | | US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously | |
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