23
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- This article is about the year 23. For other uses, see 23 (number).
| 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 | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 23 XXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 776 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Chinese calendar | 2719 – 2720 壬午 – 癸未 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 15 – 16 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3783 – 3784 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 78 – 79 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3124 – 3125 |
| Iranian calendar | 599 BP – 598 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 618 BH – 617 BH |
[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.
- 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
[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, 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.
[edit] Births
- Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer.
[edit] 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.
