1623
*
August 6 -
Pope Urban VIII is elected to the
Papacy.
* 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.
*
January 9 -
Empress Meisho 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)
*
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d.
1673)
See also :Category:1623 births.*
February 8 -
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b.
1546)
*
March 19 -
Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b.
1556)
*
June 16 -
Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German protestant military leader (b.
1599)
*
July 4 -
William Byrd, English composer
*
July 8 -
Pope Gregory XV (b.
1554)
*
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
*
Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b.
1540)
See also :Category:1623 deaths.
