The year 1803 in archaeology involved minimal significant events.
Explorations
* First scientific expedition visits
Tikal.
Excavations
Publications
Finds
Miscellaneous
Births
* 7 May:
John Howard Marsden
John Howard Marsden (7 May 1803 – 24 January 1891) was an English cleric and academic. He was an antiquarian and became in 1851 the first Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
Life
The eldest son of William Marsden ...
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English archaeologist (d.
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Broo ...
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* 31 December:
Johann Carl Fuhlrott,
German
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archaeologist (d.
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great Sio ...
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Deaths
References
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