1623

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 25 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts.
• March 5 - The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
• March 9 - Twenty men in the service of the British East India Company are executed by the Dutch East India Company in the Amboyna massacre.
• 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

• 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)

See also Category:1623 births.

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 (born c1582)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)

See also Category:1623 deaths.

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