623

This article is about the year 623. For the number (and other uses), see 623 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	590s  600s  610s  – 620s –  630s  640s  650s
Years:	620 621 622 – 623 – 624 625 626

623 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

623 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	623 DCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1376
Armenian calendar	72 ԹՎ ՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5373
Bahá'í calendar	-1221–-1220
Bengali calendar	30
Berber calendar	1573
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1167
Burmese calendar	-15
Byzantine calendar	6131–6132
Chinese calendar	壬午年十一月廿五日 (3259/3319-11-25) — to — 癸未年十二月初五日 (3260/3320-12-5)
Coptic calendar	339–340
Ethiopian calendar	615–616
Hebrew calendar	4383–4384
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	679–680
- Shaka Samvat	545–546
- Kali Yuga	3724–3725
Holocene calendar	10623
Iranian calendar	1–2
Islamic calendar	1–2
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2956
Minguo calendar	1289 before ROC 民前1289年
Thai solar calendar	1166

Year 623 (DCXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 623 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Europe

• Clotaire II, king of the Franks, makes his son Dagobert I king of Austrasia.
• Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected King of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria.

By topic

Art

• Tori Busshi makes "Shaka Triad", in the kon-dō, Horyu-ji. Asuka period (approximate date).

Deaths

• Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 549)
• Liu Heita
• Princess Pingyang
• Su Wei
• Xu Yuanlang