1523

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1520 1521 1522 – 1523 – 1524 1525 1526

1523 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Contents 1 Events of 1523 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Ongoing events

Events of 1523

January–June

• June 6 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.

July–December

• November 19 – Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 219th pope.

Undated

• The Ming Dynasty Chinese navy captures two Western ships with Portuguese breech–loading culverins aboard, which the Chinese call a fo–lang–ji (Frankish culverin). According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.
• Martin Luther translates the New Testament into German.
• Wijerd Jelckama, a Frisian warlord and military commander is executed in Leeuwarden. His death ends the successful Frisian rebellion fought by the Arumer Black Heap.
• The first Flemish Lutherans are burned in Brussels.

Births

1523 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1523 MDXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2276
Armenian calendar	972 ԹՎ ՋՀԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-321 – -320
Bengali calendar	930
Berber calendar	2473
Buddhist calendar	2067
Burmese calendar	885
Byzantine calendar	7031 – 7032
Chinese calendar	壬午年十二月十五日 (4159/4219-12-15) — to — 癸未年十一月廿五日 (4160/4220-11-25)
Coptic calendar	1239 – 1240
Ethiopian calendar	1515 – 1516
Hebrew calendar	5283 – 5284
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1579 – 1580
- Shaka Samvat	1445 – 1446
- Kali Yuga	4624 – 4625
Holocene calendar	11523
Iranian calendar	901 – 902
Islamic calendar	929 – 930
Japanese calendar	Daiei 3 (大永3年)
Korean calendar	3856
Thai solar calendar	2066

• April 5 – Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)
• June 5 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574)
• September 22 – Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590)
• October 18 – Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
• December 6 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
• date unknown
  • Sancho d'Avila, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
  • Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
  • Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589)
• probable
  • Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591)
  • Richard Edwards, English poet (d. 1566)

See also Category: 1523 births.

Deaths

• February 4 – Thomas Ruthall, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• May 7 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
• May 23 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
• May 24 – Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)
• August 13 – Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
• August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
• September 14 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
• October – William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (b. 1490)
  • Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)
  • Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)
  • Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of the Ottoman Empire, (b. 1436)
• probable
  • Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (b. 1460)

See also Category: 1523 deaths.

Ongoing events

• Knight's Revolt in Germany.