23
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This page is about the year 23. For the actual number, see twenty-three.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 23 XXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 776 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4773 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1821–-1820 |
| Bengali calendar | -570 |
| Berber calendar | 973 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 567 |
| Burmese calendar | -615 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5531–5532 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年月日 (2659/2719-Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".-Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/18) — to —
癸未年月日(2660/2720-Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".-Template:Chinese calendar/day/45/19) |
| Coptic calendar | -261–-260 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 15–16 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3783–3784 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 79–80 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 1889 before ROC 民前1889年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 566 |
23 is a year in the 1st century.
Contents |
[change] Events
[change] By place
[change] 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.
- Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.
- Gaius Asinius Pollio, Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls
[change] 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, Battle of Kunyang, After being sieged for 2 months, 9000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of Han Dynasty.
[change] Births
- Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer.
[change] Deaths
- 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.
