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

623 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	623 DCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1376
Armenian calendar	72 ԹՎ ՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5373
Balinese saka calendar	544–545
Bengali calendar	30
Berber calendar	1573
Buddhist calendar	1167
Burmese calendar	−15
Byzantine calendar	6131–6132
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3319 or 3259     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3320 or 3260
Coptic calendar	339–340
Discordian calendar	1789
Ethiopian calendar	615–616
Hebrew calendar	4383–4384
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	679–680
- Shaka Samvat	544–545
- Kali Yuga	3723–3724
Holocene calendar	10623
Iranian calendar	1–2
Islamic calendar	1–2
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	513–514
Julian calendar	623 DCXXIII
Korean calendar	2956
Minguo calendar	1289 before ROC 民前1289年
Nanakshahi calendar	−845
Seleucid era	934/935 AG
Thai solar calendar	1165–1166
Tibetan calendar	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 749 or 368 or −404     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 750 or 369 or −403

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