Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard. September 12 – War of the Spanish Succession: Habsburg Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain, but never exercises full rule. October–December October 11 – Nine Roman Catholic residents of the French village of Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants, the Camisards. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later. October 23 – Hannah Twynnoy, a 24-year-old barmaid in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, becomes the first person to be killed in Great Britain by a tiger. While working at the White Lion Inn, where a group of wild animals is on exhibit, she is mauled after bothering the tiger. October 30 – More than 47 Huguenots in the village of Branoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack on nearby Sainte-Cécile, slightly more than two miles away. November 15 War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Speyerbach (in modern-day Germany) – The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of Landau two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France. Rákóczi's War of Independence: Battle of Zvolen (in modern-day Slovakia) – The Kurucs defeat the Austrians and their allies (Denmark, Hungary and the Serbs). November 19 – The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille, in France. November 26 – The great storm of 1703 brings high winds to central and southern England. November 30 – Isaac Newton is elected president of the Royal Society in London, a position he will hold until his death in 1727. December 7–10 (November 26–29 O.S.) – The Great Storm of 1703 ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. The Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth is destroyed in the storm together with its designer Henry Winstanley. December 27 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty, which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England. December 28 – Ahmed III succeeds the deposed Mustafa II as Ottoman Emperor. Date unknown French-born imposter George Psalmanazar arrives in London. Between 1702 and 1703, an epidemic of smallpox breaks out in Quebec, in which 2,000-3,000 people die (300-400 in Quebec City). Births January–March January 1 – Heinrich Sigismund von der Heyde, Prussian army commander (d. 1765) January 2 – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of