1523

Year 1523 (MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1523 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1523
MDXXIII
Ab urbe condita2276
Armenian calendar972
ԹՎ ՋՀԲ
Assyrian calendar6273
Balinese saka calendar1444–1445
Bengali calendar930
Berber calendar2473
English Regnal year14 Hen. 8  15 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2067
Burmese calendar885
Byzantine calendar7031–7032
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4219 or 4159
     to 
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4220 or 4160
Coptic calendar1239–1240
Discordian calendar2689
Ethiopian calendar1515–1516
Hebrew calendar5283–5284
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1579–1580
 - Shaka Samvat1444–1445
 - Kali Yuga4623–4624
Holocene calendar11523
Igbo calendar523–524
Iranian calendar901–902
Islamic calendar929–930
Japanese calendarDaiei 3
(大永3年)
Javanese calendar1440–1442
Julian calendar1523
MDXXIII
Korean calendar3856
Minguo calendar389 before ROC
民前389年
Nanakshahi calendar55
Thai solar calendar2065–2066
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
The Frisian rebellion ends, fought by the Arumer Black Heap

Events

JanuaryJune

  • January 20 Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
  • May The Ningbo Incident: Two rival trade delegations from Japan feud in the Chinese city of Ningbo, resulting in the pillage and plunder of the city.
  • June 3 Santhome Church was established by Portuguese explorers over the tomb of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Chennai, India.
  • June 6 Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing the full independence of Sweden from Denmark, which marks the end of the Kalmar Union. This event is also traditionally considered to be the establishment of the modern Swedish nation.[1]

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • 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.[3]
  • Franconian War: The Swabian League destroys 23 robber baron castles.
  • In northern Italy, a French army tries to recover Milan but fails due to an offensive by Spanish, Imperial and English troops.

Births

Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry
  • January 29 Enea Vico, Italian engraver (d. 1567)
  • February 1 Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)
  • February 13 Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
  • February 20 Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer (d. 1571)
  • March 14 Helena Magenbuch, German pharmacist (d. 1597)
  • March 17 Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584)
  • March 21 Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (d. 1575)
  • April 5 Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)
  • April 21 Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (d. 1571)
  • June 5 Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574)
  • July 4 Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583)
  • July 18 Duke George II of Brieg (1547–1586) (d. 1586)
  • September 21 Sancho d'Avila, Spanish general (d. 1583)
  • September 22 Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590)
  • October 10 Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (d. 1592)
  • October 11 Eleonore of Fürstenberg, wife of Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1544)
  • October 18 Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
  • date unknown
    • Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
    • Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589)
    • Francisco Foreiro, Portuguese Dominican theologian and biblist (d. 1581)
    • Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (d. 1554)
  • probable Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591)
  • possible Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (b. between 1518 and 1524; executed 1542)

Deaths

  • February 4 Thomas Ruthall, English chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  • March 28 Louis I, Count of Löwenstein, founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (b. 1463)
  • April 6 Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479)
  • May 7
    • Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral (b. 1434)
    • Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
  • May 23 Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466)
  • May 24 Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)
  • July 1 Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes, Flemish Lutheran martyrs
  • July 7 Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (b. 1490)
  • August 13 Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
  • August 27 Domenico Grimani, Italian nobleman (b. 1461)
  • August 29 Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
  • September 14 Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)[4]
  • October 5 Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (b. 1454)
  • October 11 Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)
  • November 10 Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (b. 1465)
  • October William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)
  • date unknown
    • Cecilia Månsdotter, Swedish noble (b. c. 1476)
    • Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)
    • Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (b. 1446)

References

  1. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 1997. p. 463.
  2. Desiderius Erasmus (January 1, 1974). The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1356 to 1534, 1523 to 1524: Letters 1356 to 1534, 1523 to 1524. University of Toronto Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-0-8020-5976-5.
  3. Keay, John (2008). China: A History. London: HarperPress. ISBN 9780007221776. 0007221770. The 'breech-loading culverins presented at the Ming court in 1522' were a gift from the Portuguese; and Portuguese arquebuses were acquired in the 1540s by the Japanese, who copied and greatly improved them.
  4. "Adrian VI | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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