2003 (Timeline)

*Events occurring in 2003***2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005**Everything that happened in the year **2003 AD**.

## January

### 1

* Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City. He tells Alfred that he has trained his body and mind for the last seven and a half years to better Gotham in a way he can't as Bruce Wayne. Alfred give his support while still concerned for his son. They begin making plans for Bruce to become a vigilante.

### 7

* Bruce Wayne goes to his parent's grave for the 10th time since coming back to Gotham. On his way out of Gotham Private Cemetery, he sees a beautiful woman talking, but no one seems to be around. Bruce asks if she was talking to him but she explains she was talking to her mother's grave. She introduces herself as Andrea Beaumont. As they both walk out of the cemetery, they talk about their parents before splitting.

### 9

* Bruce puts on a ski mask, black clothing, a belt full of small weapons and takes to the streets. He is able to stop a Falcone weapons shipment from being successful, but when he confronted the criminals they were not afraid of him.

## February

### 14

* Bruce Wayne makes his first appearance as The Batman.

## March

### 1

* Timmy Turner wishes for a sponge to come to life to do all of his cleaning for him. Cosmo brings Zeep the Living Sponge into existence.

## April

### 28

* Batman saves children the Sewer King was kidnapping and forcing to steal jewelry for him. This is the first time he is tempted to take a life as Batman.

### 30

* Nicholas Dunbar is put in Arkham Asylum for child endangerment, kidnapping, and theft.

## May

### 1

* Arisia Rrab is born to Marata and Fentara Rrab on Graxos IV.

## June

### 4

* While fighting Batman, the Mad Monk causes his own death.

## July

### 1

* Erasmus Rayne is put in Arkham Asylum for serial murder.

### 15

* Clark Kent meets Lois Lane on his first day at the Daily Planet. Perry White tells her to introduce him to everyone around the office. That night, Lois gets on a helicopter to meet with Air Force One. Once the helicopter lifts off, a cable breaks which causes the helicopter to spin out of control. It lands at the edge of the Daily Planet roof. Clark, leaving from work, notices a large crowd looking to the roof of the Daily Planet. He sees the helicopter and runs away to change into the outfit his Superman outfit. Just as Lois falls out of the helicopter she is caught by Superman whom takes her back to the roof and flies off to patrol Metropolis for the first time.

### 23

* Batman cures Kirk Langstrom from becoming Man-Bat.

## August

### 2

* A bullet-proof vest from one of Batman's adventures is added to the Batcave evidence room.

### 5

* Raven is born to Arella and Trigon in the dimension Azarath.

## September

### 1

* Famous painter Pierre Antal comes to Gotham City to do portraits of Gothamites.

### 2

* To get his revenge on AntaI, Ben Wylie defaces the portraits in ways that will foreshadow how he will kill the person in the painting the next day. That way no one will want to get a portrait from Antal.

### 4

* Peter Antal becomes known as "The Painter of Death".

### 5

* Bruce Wayne has a portrait of himself done by Antal.

### 6

* Batman catches Wylie and turns him into the police, clearing Antal's name.
* Alfred hangs up Bruce's portrait in the Batcave and spreads other acquired evidence from past cases across the cave. While Bruce thinks it's narcissistic, Alfred thinks they are more of reminders of all Batman has accomplished. Bruce comes around to that thought.

### 20

* Diana of Themyscira arrives in Man's World as Wonder Woman.

### 21

* Duke Thomas is born to Elaine Thomas and Gnomon in Gotham City.

## October

### 8

* Guy Gardner gets hit by a bus and is hospitalized for a month.

### 14

* The Guardians of the Universe craft 3600 new Green Lantern Power Rings and gave one to a new person in each space sector.
	+ Sool is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 3.
	+ Yli'aatua is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 4.
	+ Tahr is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 6.
	+ Breeon is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 24.
	+ Norchavius is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 26.
	+ Sendrina is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 73.
	+ Philbol is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 1275.
	+ Collective is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 1287.
	+ Bzzd is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 2261.
	+ Dalor is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 2813.
	+ John Stewart is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 2814. This was Guy's second chance at becoming a Green Lantern. Rex Mason, John's old war buddy, secretly keeps up with his exploits on Earth by always watching the news when he's on.
	+ Ebikar Hrui is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 2815.
	+ Re-et is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 3006.
	+ Arkkis Chummuck is chosen as the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 3014.

## November

### 6

* Garfield Mark Logan is born to Marie Logan and Marzuq ibn Lodi in Qurac.

### 27

* On Thanksgiving Day, Regina Mavis's family all meet at her Grandma's home for dinner. After her Grandma says grace (thanking God for their food, family, and health), she begins coughing uncontrollably and eventually spits out gallons of blood from her mouth all over Regina and the rest of the family. This was the first time the young Regina saw someone die, and unfortunately it would not be her last.

### 28

* Alexander Sartorius is put in Arkham Asylum.

## December

### 3

* Jack Napier accidentally falls into a vat of acid at Ace Chemicals.

### 25

* Darryl Frye gives his adoptive son, Barry Allen, a Superman poster and Wonder Woman poster for Christmas.