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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).

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 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Pfalz.
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 - Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.

November 1 - Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.

Undated

Murat IV (1623-1640) succeeds Osman II (1618-1622) as Ottoman Emperor.

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.

Births

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)

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)

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