1623

1623

Events of 1623

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 - 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.

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.

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.

See also Category:1623 deaths.