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Year '23' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

By place

Roman Empire

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Roman Empire

★ Greek geographer Strabo publishes ''Geography'', a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus - it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

★ Tiberius' son Julius Caesar Drusus dies. From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure.

★ Lucius Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.

★ Gaius Asinius Pollio, Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls

Asia

★ Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family and leader of insurgents against the Xin Dynasty, proclaims himself emperor against Wang Mang.

★ June — After being sieged for 2 months, 9000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the Battle of Kunyang, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of Han Dynasty in China.

Births

★ Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer.

Deaths

★ September 14 — Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned.

★ October 6 — Wang Mang, "usurper" of the throne of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty.

★ Liu Xin, Chinese astronomer

★ Liu Yan, Chinese general

★ Empress Wang