623

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century – 7th century – 8th century
Decades:	590s  600s  610s  – 620s –  630s  640s  650s
Years:	620 621 622 – 623 – 624 625 626

Year 623 (DCXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Clotaire II, king of the Franks, makes his son Dagobert I king of Austrasia.
• Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected King of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria.

By topic

Art

• Tori Busshi makes "Shaka Triad", in the kon-dō, Horyu-ji. Asuka period (approximate date).

Deaths

• Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 549)
• Liu Heita
• Princess Pingyang
• Su Wei
• Xu Yuanlang