2003

The following is a list of notable events that happened in RuneScape in 2003.

January

• 11 January - New website
• 14 January - Siw's death is announced in Update:Siw39.
• 24 January - New Quest coming!
• 27 January - The Shilo Village quest is added.<ref>Update:Shilo Village Quest online</ref>
• 28 January - The Wilderness Agility Course and the Gnome Ball activity are added.<ref>Update:Dangerous Agility</ref><ref>Update:Gnomeball</ref>
• 30 January - The Bandwidth of the servers has been tripled.
• 31 January - We just keep getting bigger!

February

• 12 February - New kids on the block
• 13 February - The biggest update ever...
• 24 February - Extended Quest continues!
• 27 February - 1 year of RuneScape Members

March

• 3 March – The Underground Pass quest is added.<ref>Update:New Quest Online - Part Three</ref>
• 17 March - The Observatory Quest is added.<ref>Update:Observatory Quest online!</ref>

April

• Easter – Bunny ears spawned on the ground all over RuneScape.
• 14 April - Spears and Throwing knives are added.<ref>Update:New Throwing Weapons!</ref>
• 23 April - Bang! I win! Jagex team photo

May

• 7 May - The Watch Tower Quest is added, and the bank space for Members is increased.<ref>Update:New - Watch Tower Quest!</ref><ref>Update:Quadruple Bank Space!</ref>
• 26 May - Screenshots of the new engine!
• 27 May - The quest Dwarf Cannon is added.<ref>Update:New Dwarf Cannon Quest</ref> Also, Sleeping bags are added, and mining is changed.<ref>Update:Sleeping bags and pickaxes</ref>
• 29 May - Some bugs involving the newer quests were fixed.<ref>Update:A few fixes and tweaks</ref>

June

• 9 June – The Murder Mystery quest was added.<ref>Update:New Murder Mystery Quest!</ref>
• 16 June - New RS Engine Progress

July

• 9 July – The Digsite quest was added.<ref>Update:New Digsite Quest!</ref>
• 22 July - New Engine Screenshots #2
• 28 July - The quest Gertrude's Cat is added, and Cats are made available as pets.<ref>Update:New Members Quest Online</ref> Also, the Fishing Trawler activity is added.<ref>Update:Trawler mini game</ref>

August

• 20 August - The Legends Quest is added.<ref>Update:New - Legends Quest!</ref>
• 25 August - New Engine Screenshots #3

September

• 22 September - The Mage Arena is added.<ref>Update:Mage Arena</ref>

October

• 1 October - RS2 beta - date decided!
• 31 October - For Hallowe'en, scythes are dropped all over the ground.

November

• 2 November - RS2 is still on schedule
• 7 November - The infamous Partyhat duplication glitch was exploited.
• 24 November - RS2 Combat system explained

December

• 1 December – The RuneScape 2 beta is released.<ref>Update:RuneScape 2 Beta is Here!</ref> Also, later, 3 new RuneScape 2 servers were added.<ref>Update:Runescape2 Servers</ref>
• 2 December – Bugs involving the RuneScape 2 beta were fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 Bugs fixed today</ref>
• 3 December - More bugs involving the RuneScape 2 beta were fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 bugfixes - part 2</ref>
• 5 December - More bugs involving the RuneScape 2 beta were fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 bugfixes - part 3</ref>
• 8 December - Some RuneScape 2 servers were removed.<ref>Update:RuneScape2 Servers Trimmed</ref>
• 9 December - More bugs involving the RuneScape 2 beta were fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 bugfixes - part 4</ref>
• 14 December - More bugs involving the RuneScape 2 beta were fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 bugfixes - part 5</ref>
• 15 December - The RuneScape 2 map was expanded to include Seers' Village, Camelot, Catherby and Brimhaven.<ref>Update:RS2 Map Expansion</ref>
• 18 December - New features were added to the RuneScape 2 beta, and some bugs were also fixed.<ref>Update:RS2 Additions and Improvements</ref>
• 22 December - Cancellation of Christmas item drops.<ref>Update:Christmas Drop</ref>

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