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| {{Year dab|23}} | |||
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| Year '''23''' (''']''') was a ] (link will display the full calendar) of the ]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the ] of ] and ]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 776 '']'''''). The denomination 23 for this year has been used since the early ], when the ] ] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. | |||
| == Events == | |||
| <onlyinclude> | |||
| === By place === | |||
| ==== Roman Empire ==== | |||
| * ] ] ] publishes ''Geography'', a work covering the world known to the ] and ] at the time of Emperor ] – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roller|first=Duane W.|title=The building program of Herod the Great|year=1998|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20934-3|page=65|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2ZsB1yQOmyEC&pg=PA65&dq=Strabo+publishes+Geography+23#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> | |||
| * Emperor ]' son ] dies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bunson|first=Matthew|title=Encyclopedia of the Roman empire|year=2002|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-4562-4|pages=187–188|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=T5tic2VunRoC&pg=PA187&dq=Julius+Caesar+Drusus+died+23#v=onepage&q=Julius%20Caesar%20Drusus%20died%2023&f=false|edition=2nd}}</ref> From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure. | |||
| * ] begins to dominate the ] and Tiberius, after the death of Drusus.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adkins|first=Lesley|last2=Adkins|first2=Roy A.|title=Handbook to life in ancient Rome|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-5026-0|page=23|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zGY1Sqjwf8kC&pg=PA18&dq=Lucius+Aelius+Sejanus+senate+23#v=onepage&q=Lucius%20Aelius%20Sejanus%20senate%2023&f=false|edition=2nd}}</ref> | |||
| * ] and Gaius Antistius Vetus become ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sherk|first=Robert Kenneth|title=The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian|year=1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-33887-5|page=73|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=blVB5qsbnwIC&pg=PA73&dq=Gaius+Asinius+Pollio+Gaius+Antistius+Vetus#v=onepage&q=Gaius%20Asinius%20Pollio%20Gaius%20Antistius%20Vetus&f=false}}</ref> | |||
| ==== Asia ==== | |||
| * ], a descendant of the ] royal family and leader of insurgents against the ], proclaims himself emperor against ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Giele|first=Enno|title=Imperial decision-making and communication in early China: a study of Cai Yong's Duduan|year=2006|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-05334-1|page=218|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pb5veqFrpvIC&pg=PA218&dq=Liu+Xuan+emperor+23#v=onepage&q=Liu%20Xuan%20emperor%2023&f=false}}</ref> | |||
| * July – After being under siege for two months, about 19,000 insurgents under ] defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the ], ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of the ] in China.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schram|first=Stuart R.|title=Mao's road to power: revolutionary writings 1912–1949|year=1992|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-457-5|page=366|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=K8K7b_nC6BsC&pg=PA366&dq=Battle+of+Kunyang+23#v=onepage&q=Battle%20of%20Kunyang%2023&f=false|volume=1}}</ref></onlyinclude> | |||
| == Births == | |||
| * ], Roman scientist and writer<ref>{{cite book|last=Healy|first=John F.|title=Pliny the Elder on science and technology|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-814687-2|page=1|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Hz6D4H-s5psC&pg=PA1&dq=Pliny+the+Elder+born+23#v=onepage&q=Pliny%20the%20Elder%20born%2023&f=false}}</ref> (d. ]) | |||
| == Deaths == | |||
| * ] – ], son of the Emperor ], poisoned<ref>{{cite book|last=Bowman|first=Alan K.|last2=Champlin|first2=Edward|last3=Lintott|first3=Andrew|title=The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.–A.D. 69|year=1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26430-3|pages=213|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JZLW4-wba7UC&pg=PA213&dq=Drusus+poisoned+September+14,+23#v=onepage&q=Drusus%20poisoned%20September%2014%2C%2023&f=false|edition=2nd}}</ref> (b. ]) | |||
| * ] – ], "usurper" of the throne of the ] and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (b. ])<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Anthony E.|title=Ban Gu's history of early China|year=2008|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=978-1-60497-561-1|page=110|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cUF0ZCTRPwEC&pg=PA110&dq=Wang+Mang+October+6,+23#v=onepage&q=Wang%20Mang%20October%206%2C%2023&f=false}}</ref> | |||
| * ], Chinese astronomer<ref>{{cite book|last=Yunis|first=Harvey|title=Written texts and the rise of literate culture in ancient Greece|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80930-6|page=125|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hMve3wMT4g0C&pg=PA124&dq=Liu+Xin+died+23#v=onepage&q=Liu%20Xin%20died%2023&f=false}}</ref> (b. c. ]) | |||
| * ], Chinese general | |||
| * ] (b. ]) | |||
| * ], King of ]<ref>{{cite book|last=Rocca|first=Samuel|title=Herod's Judaea: a Mediterranean state in the classical world|year=2008|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-149717-9|page=58|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WaUSt9sQP2wC&pg=PA58&dq=Juba+II+died+23#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> (b. c. ]) | |||
| == References == | |||
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