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

This article is about the year 1523. For the number see 1523 (number).

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

Events [edit]

April – Martin Luther helps Katharina von Bora, his eventual wife, escape from the Nimbschen convent by placing her and 12 other nuns in herring barrels.
June 6 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.

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.

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)
date unknown
- Sancho d'Avila, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
- Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
- Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589)
- Henry Brandon, Earl of Lincoln, nephew of King Henry VIII, son of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
probable
- Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591)
- Richard Edwards, English poet (d. 1566)
possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

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)
July 1 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes became the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels
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)

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