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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	5th century 6th century 7th century
Decades:	500s 510s 520s 530s 540s
Years:	520 521 522 523 524 525 526
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523 by topic
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523 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 523
DXXIII

Ab urbe condita 1276

Assyrian calendar 5273

Balinese saka calendar 444–445

Bengali calendar −71 – −70

Berber calendar 1473

Buddhist calendar 1067

Burmese calendar −115

Byzantine calendar 6031–6032

Chinese calendar 壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
3220 or 3013
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癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
3221 or 3014

Coptic calendar 239–240

Discordian calendar 1689

Ethiopian calendar 515–516

Hebrew calendar 4283–4284

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 579–580

- Shaka Samvat 444–445

- Kali Yuga 3623–3624

Holocene calendar 10523

Iranian calendar 99 BP – 98 BP

Islamic calendar 102 BH – 101 BH

Javanese calendar 410–411

Julian calendar 523
DXXIII

Korean calendar 2856

Minguo calendar 1389 before ROC
民前1389年

Nanakshahi calendar −945

Seleucid era 834/835 AG

Thai solar calendar 1065–1066

Tibetan calendar 阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
649 or 268 or −504
— to —
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
650 or 269 or −503

Pope John I (523–526)

Year 523 (DXXIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1276 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 523 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

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Byzantine Empire

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Justinian, later Byzantine emperor, marries in Constantinople his mistress Theodora, who is by profession a courtesan (approximate date).

Europe

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King Chlothar I takes part in an expedition against Burgundy and captures the town of Autun. Now about 26, he makes plans to expand the territory he inherited from his late father, Clovis I.
King Sigismund of Burgundy is defeated by the invading Franks under Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I. He is captured and taken as prisoner to Aurelianum (modern Orléans).

Africa

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Hilderic succeeds his uncle Thrasamund after a 27-year reign, and becomes king of the Vandals and Alans. He favours Catholicism and grants the inhabitants religious freedom.
Leptis Magna (modern Libya) is sacked by Berber (Moor) raiders. Gelimer leads a successful expedition in North Africa.

Asia

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A revolt breaks out on the Six Frontier Towns, on the northern border of Northern Wei China ("Revolt of the Six Garrisons"). Tensions between the elite and the Tuoba-clan severely destabilise the state.
The Songyue Pagoda is completed during the Northern Wei era; the circular-based tower is still 40 m (131 ft) in height.
Seong becomes king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.^[1]

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Religion

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August 6 – Pope Hormisdas dies at Rome after a 9-year reign, in which he has been instrumental in ending the Acacian Schism. He is succeeded by John I as the 53rd pope.