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This article is about the year AD 23. For other uses, see 23 (number), 23 Enigma, or 23 (disambiguation).

Template:Year nav 1st century CE Template:C1YearInTopic Year 23 (XXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

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.
• Emperor 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.
• Lucius Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Drusus.
• Gaius Asinius Pollio and Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls.

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.
• July—After being under siege for 2 months, about 19,000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the Battle of Kunyang, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of the Han Dynasty in China.

Births

• Pliny the Elder, Roman scientist and writer

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 (b. 45 BC)
• Liu Xin, Chinese astronomer
• Liu Yan, Chinese general
• Empress Wang (b. 8 BC)
• Juba II, King of Mauretania

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In popular culture

In the TV Series Lost (TV Series), this is the year in which Jacob and The Man in Black's mother arrives to the island on a ship. She also gives birth to the two boys shortly after her arrival. She is then killed by a mysterious woman.

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