1523
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1520 1521 1522 - 1523 - 1524 1525 1526 |
| 1523 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1523 (MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1523
[edit] January - June
- June 6 - Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark.
[edit] July - December
- November 19 - Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 219th pope.
[edit] Undated
- The Ming Dynasty Chinese navy captures two Western ships with Portuguese breech–loading culverins aboard, which the Chinese call a fo–lang–ji (Frankish culverin). According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.
- Martin Luther translates the New Testament into German.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1523 MDXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2276 |
| Armenian calendar | 972 ԹՎ ՋՀԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -321 – -320 |
| Berber calendar | 2473 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2067 |
| Burmese calendar | 885 |
| Chinese calendar | 4159/4219-12-15 (壬午年十二月十五日) — to —
4160/4220-11-25(癸未年十一月廿五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1239 – 1240 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1515 – 1516 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5283 – 5284 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1578 – 1579 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1445 – 1446 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4624 – 4625 |
| Holocene calendar | 11523 |
| Iranian calendar | 901 – 902 |
| Islamic calendar | 929 – 930 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiei 3 (大永3年) |
| Korean calendar | 3856 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2066 |
- April 5 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)
- June 5 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574)
- June 8 - Piotr Sołtanowicz, Polish Renaissance poet and politician (d. 1592)
- September 22 - Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590)
- October 18 - Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
- December 6 - Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
- date unknown
- Sancho d'Avila, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
- Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
- Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589)
- probable
- Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591)
- Richard Edwards, English poet (d. 1566)
- See also Category: 1523 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 - Thomas Ruthall, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- May 7 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
- May 23 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
- May 24 - Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)
- August 13 - Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
- August 29 - Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
- September 14 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
- October - William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)
- date unknown
- Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)
- Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)
- Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of the Ottoman Empire, (b. 1436)
- probable
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (b. 1460)
- See also Category: 1523 deaths.
[edit] Ongoing Events
- Knight's Revolt in Germany.
