Information about 1623
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of 1623
January - June
- February 25 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts.
- March 5 - The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
- March 20 - Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from the Jamestown Settlement.
- April 29 - A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru.
- 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 arrived from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), carrying more settlers.
- July - The ship Little James arrived from England at "New Plymouth" (Plymouth Colony), a week or two after the ship Anne.
- August 6 - Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.
- November 1 - Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.
Undated
- 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.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1623 MDCXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2376 |
| Armenian calendar | 1072 ԹՎ ՌՀԲ |
| Bah' calendar | -221 – -220 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2167 |
| Chinese calendar | 4259/4319-7-27 (壬戌年七月廿七日) — to — 4260/4320-7-7(癸亥年七月初七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1339 – 1340 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1615 – 1616 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5383 – 5384 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1678 – 1679 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1545 – 1546 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4724 – 4725 |
| Holocene calendar | 11623 |
| Iranian calendar | 1001 – 1002 |
| Islamic calendar | 1032 – 1033 |
| Japanese calendar | Genna 0 (元和0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2283 (皇紀2283年) |
| Julian calendar | 1668 |
| Korean calendar | 3956 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2166 |
- January 9 - Meishō, empress 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)
- date unknown
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1667)
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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 19 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- March 25 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon (b. 1555)
- 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)
- 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 (born c1582)
- date unknown
- Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)
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- Ethiopia - Susenyos, Emperor of Ethiopia (1606-1632)
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- China (Ming Dynasty) - Tianqi, Emperor of China (1620-1627)
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- João Correia de Sousa, Governor of Angola (1621-1623)
- Pedro de Sousa Coelho, Governor of Angola (1623)
- Simão de Mascarenhas, Governor of Angola (1623-1624)
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