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1623

Years: 1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1623 in literature 1623 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• 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", and 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.

Births

• June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
• August 5 - Marc Antonio Cesti, composer (+ 1669)
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (+ 1673)
• Empress Meisho of Japan
• Sir William Petty

Deaths

• July 4 - William Byrd, composer
• July 8 - Pope Gregory XV
• Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver
• William Camden, historian

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