1623

Years:
1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626

Decades:
1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1623 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1623 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

August 6 - Pope Urban VIII succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 233rd pope.
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.

January 9 - Empress Meisho 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)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)