1523

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

Events of 1523

January - June

* June 6 - Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark.

July - December

* November 19 - Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 219th pope.

Undated

* 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.
* Martin Luther translates the New Testament into German.

Births

* April 5 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)
* June 5 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574)
* September 22 - Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590)
* October 18 - Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
* December 6 - Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
*"date unknown"
**Sancho d'Avila, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
**Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)
**Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589)
*"probable"
**Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591)
**Richard Edwards, English poet (d. 1566)

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Deaths

* February 4 - Thomas Ruthall, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
* May 7 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
* May 23 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
* May 24 - Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)
* August 13 - Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)
* August 29 - Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
* September 14 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
* October - William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)
*"date unknown"
**Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)
**Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)
**Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of the Ottoman Empire, (b. 1436)
*"probable"
**Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Spanish navigator (b. 1460)

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Ongoing Events

* Knight's Revolt in Germany.