1523
| Years: 1520 1521 1522 - 1523 - 1524 1525 1526 | |
| Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
| 1523 by topic | |
| Arts and science | |
| Architecture - Art - Music - Science | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| Colonial governors - State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Works category | |
| Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1523 MDXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2276 |
| Armenian calendar | 972 ԹՎ ՋՀԲ |
| 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) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1515 – 1516 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5283 – 5284 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1578 – 1579 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1445 – 1446 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4624 – 4625 |
| Iranian calendar | 901 – 902 |
| Islamic calendar | 929 – 930 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2066 |
Contents |
Events
- June 6 - Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark.
- November 19 - Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 217th pope.
Births
- April 5 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (died 1596)
- Anna the Jagiellonian, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1596)
- Barbara Radziwill, queen of Poland (died 1551)
- Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (died 1591)
- Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (died 1562)
- Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (died 1589)
- Richard Edwards, English poet (died 1566)
Deaths
- 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)
- September 14 - Pope Adrian VI (born 1459)
- Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (born 1461)
- William Cornysh, English composer (born 1465)
- Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (born 1488)
- Bartolommeo Montagna, Italian painter (born 1450)
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (born 1460)
- Thomas Ruthall, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
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