1623

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Years: 1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1623 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1623 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1623 MDCXXIII Ab urbe condita 2376 Armenian calendar 1072 ԹՎ ՌՀԲ Chinese calendar 4259/4319-12-1 (壬戌年十二月初一日) — to — 4260/4320-11-10 (癸亥年十一月初十日) Ethiopian calendar 1615 – 1616 Hebrew calendar 5383 – 5384 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1678 – 1679 - Shaka Samvat 1545 – 1546 - Kali Yuga 4724 – 4725 Iranian calendar 1001 – 1002 Islamic calendar 1032 – 1033 Japanese calendar Genna 9 (元和9年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2283 (皇紀2283年) - Jōmon Era 11623 Thai solar calendar 2166

1623 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• August 6 - Pope Urban VIII succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman II (1618-1622) to Murat IV (1623-1640).
• The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
• England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", an early mechanical calculator.
• Procopius's 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, first gymnasium in Sweden.
• The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.
• Second Thanksgiving celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.
• Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
• On The Coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts is first inhabited by Englishmen from Dorchester, England.
• The first European settlement in New Hampshire is founded.

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1696)
• April 27 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
• April 30 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
• May 27 - Sir William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
• May 30 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
• June 15 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
• June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1662)
• August 5 - (baptism) Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
• August 23 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
• October 17 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)

See also Category:1623 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 8 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
• March 19 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
• June 16 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
• July 4 - William Byrd, English composer (born 1543)
• July 8 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
• October 21 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
• November 9 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
• November 11 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
• November 12 - Josaphat Kuncevyc, Lithuanian archbishop (born c1582)
• Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)

See also Category:1623 deaths.