1623

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1620 1621 1622 – 1623 – 1624 1625 1626

1623 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1623 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1623

January–June

• February – France, Savoy, and Venice sign the Treaty of Paris, agreeing to cooperate in removing Spanish forces from the strategic Alpine pass of Valtelline.
• February 25 – Thirty Years' War: Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes Elector of the Palatinate.
• March 5 – The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
• March 9 – Amboyna massacre: Ten men in the service of the British East India Company, 9 Japanese and 1 Portuguese, are executed by the Dutch East India Company.
• March 20 – Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from the Jamestown Settlement.
• April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships departs for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
• 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 arrives from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), carrying more settlers.
• July – The ship Little James arrives from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), a week or two after the ship Anne.
• August 6 – Papal Conclave of 1623: Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.
• August 6 – Thirty Years' War: Chased by Tilly's army, Christian of Brunswick's army attempts to flee to the Dutch Republic. Tilly's army catches Brunswick 5 miles from the border. In the resulting Battle of Stadtlohn, Christian's army is destroyed.
• September 10 – Murat IV (1623–1640) succeeds Mustafa I (1622–1623) as Ottoman Emperor.
• November 1 – Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.

Undated

• The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
• England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", an early mechanical calculator.
• Procopius' 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, the first gymnasium in Sweden.
• The second Thanksgiving is 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.
• King Gwanghaegun of Korea is deposed in a coup. He is succeeded by King Injo of Joseon.

Births

1623 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1623 MDCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2376
Armenian calendar	1072 ԹՎ ՌՀԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-221 – -220
Bengali calendar	1030
Berber calendar	2573
Buddhist calendar	2167
Burmese calendar	985
Byzantine calendar	7131 – 7132
Chinese calendar	壬戌年十二月初一日 (4259/4319-12-1) — to — 癸亥年十一月初十日 (4260/4320-11-10)
Coptic calendar	1339 – 1340
Ethiopian calendar	1615 – 1616
Hebrew calendar	5383 – 5384
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1679 – 1680
- Shaka Samvat	1545 – 1546
- Kali Yuga	4724 – 4725
Holocene calendar	11623
Iranian calendar	1001 – 1002
Islamic calendar	1032 – 1033
Japanese calendar	Genna 9 (元和9年)
Korean calendar	3956
Thai solar calendar	2166

• 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 Socinian theologist (d. 1675)
• September 13 – Justinius Praetorius Morozovus, Russian-Chinese writer, mathematician, composer, violinist and philosopher.
• October 17 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
• date unknown
  • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)
  • Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1667)

See also Category:1623 births.

Deaths

• January 15 – Paolo Sarpi, theologian (b. 1552)
• February 8 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
• February – Malcolm Macfie, last chief of the Scottish clan Clan Macfie
• March 25 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon (b. 1555)
• April 19 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
• 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)
• August 6 – Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife
• 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 (b. c. 1582)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)

See also Category:1623 deaths.