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Year '1623' ('MDCXXIII') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1623

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1623

January - June

★ February 25 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts.

★ March 5 - The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.

★ March 20 - Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from the Jamestown Settlement.

★ April 29 - A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru.

★ June 14 - The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but he loses.

July - December

★ July - The ship ''Anne'' arrived from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), carrying more settlers.

★ July - The ship ''Little James'' arrived from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), a week or two after the ship ''Anne''.

★ August 6 - Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.

★ November 1 - Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.

Undated

★ 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.

Births

★ January 9 - Meishō, empress 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)

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★ Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1667)
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Deaths

★ January 15 - Paolo Sarpi, theologian (b. 1552)

★ February 8 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)

★ February - Malcolm Macfie, Chief of the Scottish Clan MacFie

★ March 19 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)

★ March 25 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon (b. 1555)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)
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