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Year '1523' (MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1523

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1523

January - June

★ June 6 - Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark.

July - December

★ November 19 - Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 219th pope.

Undated

★ Knight's Revolt in Germany.

Births

★ April 5 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (died 1596)

★ June 5 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (died 1574)

★ September 22 - Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon French church leader and pretender to the throne (died 1590)

★ October 18 - Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1596)

★ December 6 - Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (died 1551)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Sancho d'Avila, Spanish military leader (died 1583)

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★ Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (died 1562)

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★ Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (died 1589)

★ ''probable''

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★ Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (died 1591)

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★ Richard Edwards, English poet (died 1566)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 4 - Thomas Ruthall, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

★ May 7 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight (born 1481)

★ May 23 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (born 1466)

★ May 24 - Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (born 1447)

★ August 13 - Gerard David, Flemish artist (born c. 1455)

★ August 29 - Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (born 1488)

★ September 14 - Pope Adrian VI (born 1459)

★ October - William Cornysh, English composer (born 1465)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (born 1461)

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★ Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (born 1450)

★ ''probable''

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★ Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (born 1460)
: ''See also .''