1523
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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 of 1523
January – June
- June 6 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark.
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.
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1523 MDXXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2276 |
Armenian calendar | 972 ԹՎ ՋՀԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6273 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1444–1445 |
Bengali calendar | 930 |
Berber calendar | 2473 |
English Regnal year | 14 Hen. 8 – 15 Hen. 8 |
Buddhist calendar | 2067 |
Burmese calendar | 885 |
Byzantine calendar | 7031–7032 |
Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4220 or 4013 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4221 or 4014 |
Coptic calendar | 1239–1240 |
Discordian calendar | 2689 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1515–1516 |
Hebrew calendar | 5283–5284 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1579–1580 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1444–1445 |
- Kali Yuga | 4623–4624 |
Holocene calendar | 11523 |
Igbo calendar | 523–524 |
Iranian calendar | 901–902 |
Islamic calendar | 929–930 |
Japanese calendar | Daiei 3 (大永3年) |
Javanese calendar | 1440–1442 |
Julian calendar | 1523 MDXXIII |
Korean calendar | 3856 |
Minguo calendar | 389 before ROC 民前389年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 55 |
Thai solar calendar | 2065–2066 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1649 or 1268 or 496 — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1650 or 1269 or 497 |
- 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.