1623

16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades:1600s,1610s,1620s,1630s,1640s,1650s?,1660s,1670s?,1680s,1690s

1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628

1623 - decade 1620s - 17th century

Events:

• August 6: Pope Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622)
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman II (1618-1622) to Murat IV (1623-1640)
• [Wilhelm Schickard]? invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
• Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the [Vatican Library]?.
• Saint Kitts and Nevis colonized by England.

Births:

• June 19 :Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher.

Deaths:

• July 18: Pope Gregory XV, pope.
• Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver.