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King Gustav of Sweden enters Stockholm and secures Sweden's independence from Denmark (painting by Carl Larsson
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| Nanakshahi calendar | 55 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2065–2066 |
| 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 |
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Year 1523 (MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway after the nobles of the herredag at Viborg have renounced their allegiance in favor of his uncle, Frederick, Duke of Holstein. Christian is exiled to the Netherlands in April. [1]
- Spice Islands (now the Maluku Islands).[2]
- Battle of al-Shihr on the Arabian Peninsula (in what is now Yemen): Troops from Portugal fight against the Kathiri Sultanate, ruled by the Emir Mutran bin Mansur. After a battle of one day, the Portuguese sack the capital, Al-Shihr, and establish a port on the Indian Ocean.
- February 27 – Captain Antón Mayor formally claims for Spain what is now Nicaragua, after he arrives with Andrés Niño and other Spanish troops on the Central American coast at El Realejo.[3]
- March 8 – In Spain's Kingdom of Valencia, a rebellion by the Brotherhoods of Mallorca is suppressed after two years, as the rebels surrender their capital, Palma de Mallorca, to Spanish and German troops.[4]
- March 26 – Frederick I is provisionally declared as King of Denmark by Danish nobles at Viborg, although loyalists at Copenhagen refuse to recognize his claim to the throne. Christian II, 1481-1559, regent 1513-1523.[5]
April–June
- April 4 – Under a plan organized by Sister Katharina von Bora and Protestant reformer Martin Luther, fish merchant Leonhard Köppe helps carry out the rescue of Von Bora and other Cistercian Catholic nuns from the Nimbschen Abbey in Germany near Grimma and Leipzig. On the day before Easter, Köppe arrives at the convent under the pretext of bringing delivering herring and other foods to the Abbey, then uses empty barrels to smuggle the nuns to Wittenberg. Von Bora will later become Luther's wife.[6][7]
- April 12 – The Spanish conquest of Nicaragua continues as Gil González Dávila and 17 other soldiers arrive at Lake Nicaragua and claim it for the Spanish crown, calling the freshwater source the Mar Dulce. Gonzalez and 100 men with him have been welcomed by Macuilmiquiztli Nicarao, leader of the friendly Nicarao people, to explore the area.[8]
- Grand Vizier of Persia since 1514, is assassinated in Qazvin (now in Iran) by Shia nobles of the Qizilbash sect, and replaced by Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi.[9]
- Utopia, is appointed by King Henry VIII as the Speaker of the English House of Commons for the first parliamentary session since 1515. He serves until the Parliament adjourns on August 15.
- April 17 – In Nicaragua, Diriangén, ruler of the Chorotega speakers, stages an attack on the Spanish invaders led by González Dávila.[8] Having been warned by one of the Nicarao natives of the intended surprise attack, Spanish defenders on horses rout the Chorotega, but several of the Spaniards are wounded. The Spanish then decide to proceed no further inland.
- April 23 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, brings the Spanish Inquisition to the Netherlands with the appointment of Frans Van der Hulst as the inquisitor general of the Seventeen Provinces, which will later become parts of the Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the southern Netherlands.[10]
- April 24 – The Diet of Hungary, parliament for the Kingdom of Hungary under King Lajos II, passes a decree ordering the confiscation of property and execution of all followers of Martin Luther within the Kingdom.[11]
- May 6 – In the Electoral Palatinate in Germany, the Knights' Revolt, led by Franz von Sickingen since August 27, is finally put down at Landstuhl by troops of the Holy Roman Empire as the Nanstein Castle falls.[12] Sickingen, mortally wounded in the final battle, dies of his wounds the next day.
- May 5 – An assassination attempt is made against King Sigismund of Poland, who is shot at while walking outside his residence at Wawel Castle overlooking Kraków.[13]
- May 20 – Andrea Gritti is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, 13 days after the death of Antonio Grimani.[14]
- May 27 – Swedish War of Liberation: The city of Kalmar in Sweden, occupied by troops of Denmark, falls to a Swedish Army force led by Arvid Västgöte after the city's magistrates agree to leave the northern gate of the city open.[15] Kalmar Castle surrenders on June 4. With the fall of Kalmar, only Stockholm remains as a site of the Danish occupation.
- May 31 – Following the Battle of Sincouwaan at sea between the ships of the Chinese Empire and the Kingdom of Portugal, the Malay ambassador to China reluctantly departs from Guangzhou to present letters to the Portuguese governors of the occupied Malacca Sultanate, demanding the restoration of the deposed Sultan. Though fearing execution by the Portuguese, the messengers are allowed to leave. They return in September with a plea for help from the Malay Sultan, whose territory is under attack from the Europeans.[16]
- 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.[17]
- Madras (now Chennai) in India.
- 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.[18]
- June 10 – Frederick begins the 8-day siege of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The city surrenders on 6 January 1524.[5]
- June 12–July 19 – Franconian War: The Swabian League destroys 23 robber baron castles.[19][20]
- June 17 – Swedish War of Liberation: The surrender of Stockholm by Denmark is accepted by Sweden's King Gustav Vasa.[15] In return, the city's defenders are allowed safe passage out of Sweden. King Gustav then makes his triumphant entry to the city on June 24.
- June 23 – The Spanish expedition into Nicaragua ends as the Europeans arrive back in Panama in canoes, having been forced to abandon their ships.[8]
- Pargali Ibrahim Pasha is appointed as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Suleiman the Magnificent.[21]He will serve as the Ottoman administrator for almost 13 years until his sudden arrest and execution in 1536.
July–September
- In response to the executions, Martin Luther composed a hymn called "A New Song Be By Us Begun".
- Arumer Black Heap.
- Colima.[23]
- July 29 – The Republic of Venice and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Treaty of Worms to remove Venice from the Italian War that has gone for two years.[24]
- c. July – Pentateuch into German (Das allte Testament Deutsch) is published by Melchior Lotter Jr. in Wittenberg.[25]
- Lord of Monaco, is assassinated by his nephew at the Prince's Palace.[26] Bartolomeo Doria di Dolceaqua, the son of Lucien's sister Francesca, kills his uncle and then has his men drag the monarch's body down the palace stairs in front of a horrified crowd, who drive the Doria family out of the small principality. Lucien had become the ruler in 1505 after stabbing to death his brother, Jean II. Lucien's heir is his 8-month-old son, Honoré; Lucien's brother Augustine Grimaldibecomes the regent during Honoré's minority.
- September 14 – Pope Adrian VI, the last Dutch person to serve as head of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at age 64 after a reign of 21 months. For the next 455 years, all Popes elected will be Italian cardinals until the election of Karol Wojtyla of Poland in 1978 as Pope John Paul II.
- September 22 – Spanish conquest of Nicaragua: An agreement is made for an expedition by conquistadores into Nicaragua organized by Pedrarias Dávila.[27]
- September 23 – After receiving word from Malaya that Portuguese forces were attacking the Sultanate of Patani and the Malacca Sultanate on the Malaysian peninsula, the China's Emperor Zhengde orders extermination of all persons from Portugal, 23 envoys from Portugal are executed and mutilated.[16]
October–December
- October 1 – A conclave of 32 cardinals begins deliberations in Rome to elect a successor to the late Pope Adrian VI. Three other cardinals arrive on October 6 and balloting begins for a new Pope. Niccolò Fieschi and Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande fail to receive the necessary majority in initial balloting, and Gianmaria del Monte comes within one vote (26 votes) of being elected. Voting continues for seven weeks before Cardinal Giulio de Medici wins 27 votes.[28]
- Chouf. During the first campaign, Hürrem's troops burn 43 villages and kill at least 400 Druze.[29]
- November 19 – Following the September 14 death of Pope Adrian VI, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici is elected 219th pope as Clement VII.[30] The election of Cardinal Medici begins an unbroken reign of 44 consecutive Italian Popes over the next 455 years.
- November 26 – At Santa Maria in Via Lata, Cardinal Marco Cornaro carries out the coronation of Pope Clement at the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome.
- December 6 – Setting off from the Mexican Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan with an army of 550 Spanish soldiers and 120 horses, Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras begins the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.[31]
Date unknown
- The 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.[32]
- In northern Italy, a French army under Guillaume Gouffier tries to recover Milan but fails due to an offensive by Spanish, Imperial and English troops and they retreat in mid-November.[33]
Births
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry
- January 29 – Enea Vico, Italian engraver (d. 1567)[34]
- February 1 – Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)[35]
- February 13 – Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)[36]
- February 20 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer (d. 1571)[37]
- March 14 – Helena Magenbuch, German pharmacist (d. 1597)
- March 17 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584)[38]
- March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (d. 1575)[39]
- April 5 – Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596)[40][41]
- April 21 – Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (d. 1571)[42]
- July 4 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583)[44]
- July 18 – Duke George II of Brieg (1547–1586) (d. 1586)[45]
- September 21 – Sancho d'Avila, Spanish general (d. 1583)[46]
- September 22 – Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590)[47]
- October 10 – Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (d. 1592)[48]
- 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)[49]
- date unknown
- Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562)[50]
- Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (d. 1554)[51]
- probable
- Francisco Foreiro, Portuguese Dominican theologian and biblist (b. in 1522 or 1523; d. 1581)[53]
- possible –
Deaths
- January 17 – Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, German landgravine (b. 1466)[55][56]
- February 4 – Thomas Ruthall, English chancellor of the University of Cambridge[57]
- 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)[58]
- May 7
- Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral and Doge of Venice (b. 1434)[59]
- Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)[60]
- May 23 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466)[61][unreliable source?]
- May 24 – Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447)[62]
- July 1 – Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, Flemish Lutheran martyrs[22]
- July 7 – Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (b. 1490)
- August 13 – Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455)[63]
- August 27 – Domenico Grimani, Italian nobleman (b. 1461)[64]
- August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)[65]
- September 14 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)[66]
- October 2 – Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461)[67]
- October 5 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (b. 1454)[68]
- October 11 – Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450)[69]
- October – William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465)[70]
- November 10 – Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (b. 1465)[71]
- date unknown – Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (b. 1446)[72][73]
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