1623

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1620
  • 1621
  • 1622
  • 1623
  • 1624
  • 1625
  • 1626
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1623 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1623
MDCXXIII
Ab urbe condita2376
Armenian calendar1072
ԹՎ ՌՀԲ
Assyrian calendar6373
Balinese saka calendar1544–1545
Bengali calendar1030
Berber calendar2573
English Regnal year20 Ja. 1 – 21 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2167
Burmese calendar985
Byzantine calendar7131–7132
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4319 or 4259
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4320 or 4260
Coptic calendar1339–1340
Discordian calendar2789
Ethiopian calendar1615–1616
Hebrew calendar5383–5384
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1679–1680
 - Shaka Samvat1544–1545
 - Kali Yuga4723–4724
Holocene calendar11623
Igbo calendar623–624
Iranian calendar1001–1002
Islamic calendar1032–1033
Japanese calendarGenna 9
(元和９年)
Javanese calendar1544–1545
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3956
Minguo calendar289 before ROC
民前289年
Nanakshahi calendar155
Thai solar calendar2165–2166
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1749 or 1368 or 596
    — to —
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1750 or 1369 or 597
August 6: The Battle of Stadtlohn.

1623 (MDCXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1623rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 623rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1623, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January – Battle of Mbanda Kasi: Forces from the Kingdom of Kongo defeat the Portuguese.
  • February – France, Savoy, and Venice sign the Treaty of Paris, agreeing to cooperate in removing Spanish forces from the strategic Alpine pass of Valtelline.[1]
  • February 25 – Thirty Years' War: Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes Elector of the Electorate of the Palatinate.
  • March 5 – The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
  • March 9 – Amboyna massacre: Ten men in the service of the British East India Company, nine Japanese and one Portuguese, are executed by the Dutch East India Company.
  • March 20 – Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from Jamestown, Virginia.
  • April 11 – King Gwanghaegun of Joseon is deposed in the Injo coup. He is succeeded by King Injo.
  • April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
  • June 14 – The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses.[2]
  • June 29 – Première of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's first play, Amor, honor y poder, at the Court of Habsburg Spain.

July–December[]

  • July – The ship Anne arrives from England at New Plymouth (Plymouth Colony), carrying more settlers, followed a week or two later by the Little James.
  • July 16 - The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, when they were only 5 arc minutes apart, the closest since 4 March 1226. This conjunction likely went unobserved, as it would have occurred near the sun and the telescope had been invented only recently.
  • August 6
    • Papal Conclave of 1623: Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV, as the 235th pope.
    • Thirty Years' War: Chased by the Count of Tilly's army, Christian of Brunswick's army attempts to flee to the Dutch Republic. Tilly's army catches Brunswick five miles from the border. In the resulting Battle of Stadtlohn, Christian's army is destroyed.
  • September 10 – Murat IV (1623–1640) succeeds Mustafa I (1622–1623) as Ottoman Emperor.[3]
  • November 1 – Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.
  • Between November 8 and December 5 – The "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare, is published in London, England, half of which have not previously been printed.

Gabriel Bethlen (Hungarian: Bethlen Gábor; 15 November 1580 – 15 November 1629) Prince of Transylvania and King-elect of Hungary with his diploma dated in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj he allows Jews to settle, trade freely and practice religion in Transylvania, and exempts them from wearing the usual Jewish sign.

Date unknown[]

  • The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
  • England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
  • Wilhelm Schickard invents his Calculating Clock, an early mechanical calculator.
  • Zildjian begins the commercial manufacture of cymbals in Turkey. The company will still be operating, from Massachusetts, in the 21st century.
  • Procopius' long-lost Secret History is rediscovered, in the Vatican Library.
  • Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
  • Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
  • Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska gymnasiet, the first gymnasium in Sweden.
  • The second Thanksgiving is celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.
  • Erotomania is first mentioned, in a psychiatric treatise.[4]
  • On the coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is first inhabited by men from Dorchester, Dorset, England.
  • On the coast of New Hampshire, the settlement of Hilton's Point, which will become Dover, New Hampshire, is established by men from London, England, the first European settlers in the state.
  • A plague outbreak kills around 40 people in Malta.[5]


Births[]

Wilhelmus Beekman
William Petty
Cornelis de Witt
Georg Balthasar Metzger

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 7 – Thomas Mainwaring, English politician (d. 1689)
  • April 11 – Decio Azzolino, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1689)
  • April 20 – Olimpia Aldobrandini, Italian Aldobrandini family member, heiress (d. 1681)
  • April 23 – Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1667)
  • April 27 – Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska, Polish noble (d. 1672)
  • April 28 – Wilhelmus Beekman, Dutch politician (d. 1707)
  • April 30 – François de Laval, first Catholic bishop of Quebec (d. 1708)
  • May 26 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
  • May 29 – David Schirmer, German lyric poet and librarian (d. 1686)
  • May 30
    • John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
    • Wallerant Vaillant, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1677)
  • June 8 – Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1698)
  • June 15 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)[6]
  • June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1662)[7]
  • June 29 – Inaba Masanori, Japanese daimyō (d. 1696)

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)[10]
  • Dorothy, Lady Pakington, English religious writer (d. 1679)
  • Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1667)

Deaths[]

Mariam-uz-Zamani
Pope Gregory XV died 8 July
Anne Hathaway
Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
William Camden

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)

References[]

  1. ^ Sir Adolphus William Ward; Sir George Walter Prother; Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1934). The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by Lord Acton. Macmillan. p. 57.
  2. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1623". OnThisDay.com. 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Irene A. Bierman; Rifaʻat Ali Abou-El-Haj; Donald Preziosi (1991). The Ottoman City and Its Parts: Urban Structure and Social Order. A.D. Caratzas. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-89241-473-4.
  4. ^ Ferrand, Jacques. Maladie d'amour ou Mélancolie érotique.
  5. ^ Savona-Ventura, Charles (2015). Knight Hospitaller Medicine in Malta [1530–1798]. Self-published. p. 224. ISBN 9781326482220.
  6. ^ The Assurance Magazine and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. Charles & Edwin Layton. 1860. p. 209.
  7. ^ SPUMS Journal. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 1999. p. 40.
  8. ^ Michael Levey (1964). The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Phaidon Publishers. p. 86.
  9. ^ Le comte d'Argenson, 1696-1764: Ministre de Louis XV, Yves Combeau, École nationale des chartes, 1 janv. 1999 - page 26. (in French)
  10. ^ Margaret Atherton (1994). Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 0-87220-259-3.
  11. ^ Edmund H. Fellowes (1948). William Byrd. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-315204-5.
  12. ^ James Howell (1892). Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Historiographer Royal to Charles II. D. Nutt. p. 731.
  13. ^ Samuel Schoenbaum (1991). Shakespeare's Lives. Clarendon Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-818618-2.
  14. ^ Louis Shores (1963). Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. p. 628.
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