23
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- This article is about the year AD 23. For other uses, see 23 (number), 23 (numerology), or 23 (disambiguation).
| Centuries: | 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century |
| Decades: | 0s BC 0s 10s - 20s - 30s 40s 50s |
| Years: | 20 21 22 - 23 - 24 25 26 |
| 23 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 23 XXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 776 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1821 – -1820 |
| Berber calendar | 973 |
| Buddhist calendar | 567 |
| Burmese calendar | -615 |
| Chinese calendar | 2659/2719-12-20 (壬午年十二月二十日) — to —
2660/2720-12-1(癸未年十二月初一日) |
| Coptic calendar | -261 – -260 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 15 – 16 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3783 – 3784 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 78 – 79 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3124 – 3125 |
| Holocene calendar | 10023 |
| Iranian calendar | 599 BP – 598 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 617 BH – 616 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2356 |
| Thai solar calendar | 566 |
Year 23 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus - it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.
- Tiberius' son Julius Caesar Drusus dies. From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure.
- Lucius Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.
- Gaius Asinius Pollio and Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls.
[edit] Asia
- Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family and leader of insurgents against the Xin Dynasty, proclaims himself emperor against Wang Mang.
- June — After being sieged for 2 months, 9,000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the Battle of Kunyang, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of the Han Dynasty in China.
[edit] Births
- Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer
[edit] Deaths
- June 15 — Maka Dan-Dang, daughter of Maka Na-Zhen, the first person recorded to be strangled by the trunk of an elephant
- September 14 — Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned
- October 6 — Wang Mang, "usurper" of the throne of the Han Dynasty and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty
- Liu Xin, Chinese astronomer
- Liu Yan, Chinese general
- Empress Wang
- Juba II, King of Mauretania
