Erasmus in 1523, by Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Holbein

Printer's device of Johann Froben, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1523

His three profile portraits of Erasmus, two ( nearly identical ) profile portraits and one three-quarters view portrait were all painted in the same year, 1523.

The painting Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523 | Gustav Vasa's entry to Stockholm 1523, by Carl Larsson 1908, is painted on the museum wall.

The first book was mainly composed by 1512 / 13 and completed by 1523, showing five differently constructed types of both male and female figures, all parts of the body expressed in fractions of the total height.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

From 1515 to 1523, the Habsburg government in the Netherlands also had to contend with the Frisian peasant rebellion, led first by Pier Gerlofs Donia and then by his nephew Wijerd Jelckama.

In 1522 he participated in the Siege of Rhodes against the Knights of St. John, which ended with the island's surrender to the Ottomans on 25 December 1522 and the permanent departure of the Knights from Rhodes on 1 January 1523 ( the Knights relocated first ( briefly ) to Sicily and later ( permanently ) to Malta ).

He was the first non-Italian pope since 1523.

In return for this action of the duke, who had at first been opposed to the policy of repression, Eck obtained for him, during a third visit to Rome in 1523, valuable ecclesiastical concessions.

The first of these journeys, late in the autumn of 1521, was fruitless on account of the death of Leo X, but his second journey in 1523 was successful.

The first depiction of Terra Australis on a globe was probably on Johannes Schöner's lost 1523 globe on which Oronce Fine is thought to have based his 1531 double cordiform ( heart-shaped ) map of the world.

The first printed pattern book was produced in 1523, but they were not easily obtainable and a sampler was the most common form of reference available to many women.

One of the first primitive schools for Native Americans was founded by Fray Pedro de Gante in 1523.

The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523 under the supervision of the architect Thomas Krebs, and in 1582 Hans Holl added the church to the settlement: St. Mark's.

He took part in Cardinal Wolsey's diplomatic voyages of 1521 and 1527, and was knighted by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk during his first major military experience, the 1523 invasion of France.

Franz von Sickingen ( 2 March 1481 – 7 May 1523 ) was a German knight, one of the most notable figures of the first period of the Reformation.

* In 1519 – 1523 Gustav Vasa found his first and staunchest supporters among the miners in his revolt against the Kalmar Union under King Christian II.

In December 1523, Müntzer produced the first completely German liturgy, the Order of German Church Service, for use in Allstedt.

The events of 1523 and 1809 are generally regarded as the most important ; the first reestablishing Sweden as an independent country after the Kalmar union, the other establishing an Instrument of Government that was used until the 1970s.

The accusation of host desecration gradually ceased after the Reformation when first Martin Luther in 1523 and then Sigismund August of Poland in 1558 were among those who repudiated the accusation.

Cortés returned to Cuernavaca in 1523, stopping in Tlaltenango, where he founded the Church of San José and constructed the first sugar plantation.

Against Aztec domination, these people welcomed Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.

After the Aztec capital was destroyed, Cortés remained in Coyoacan and made it the first capital of New Spain from 1521 to 1523.

On June 9, 1523 he became a member of St Leonard's College, part of the University of St Andrews, and on October 3, 1524 he was admitted to its faculty of arts, where he was first a student of, and then a colleague of the humanist and logician John Mair.

La Antigua also has one of the oldest Spanish structures in Mexico, the Edificio del Cabildo, also built in 1523, which seated the first ayuntamiento or city council.

On 27 September 1523, Johann Briesmann gave the first Lutheran sermon in the cathedral.

The city was the first on mainland America to receive a European coat of arms, which was authorized by Carlos V in Valladolid, Spain on 4 July 1523.

* The State Censors were set up in 1517 by Marco Giovanni di Giovanni, a cousin of Doge Andrea Gritti ( 1523 – 1538 ) and nephew of the great Francesco Foscari.

The great event of his intellectual life was the coming of the Reformation ; he became an ardent adherent of Luther, and in 1523 wrote in Luther's honour the poem beginning “ The nightingale of Wittenberg, which is heard everywhere ” (), and four remarkable dialogues in prose, in which his warm sympathy with the reformer were tempered by counsels of moderation.

William was educated at the great West Country college of Exeter, at Oxford, arriving there in 1520 when he was about 14 ( the usual age at that time ), from whence he was elected Fellow of All Souls in 1523 where he graduated Bachelor of Civil and Canon Law on 2 July 1526 ( both colleges were generously endowed by him later ).

Within the church, in the lower choir, are the stone tombs of Vasco da Gama ( 1468 – 1523 ), and of the great poet and chronicler of the Age of Discoveries, Luís de Camões ( 1527 – 1570 ).

When Christian II abdicated under great pressure in April 1523, Norby was the only seignory who stayed loyal to him.

The Burgundian War witnessed a great outburst of historical ardour in the shape of chronicles written by Diebold Schilling ( d. 1486 ) of Bern, by Melchior Russ ( d. 1499 ), Diebold Schilling the Younger ( d. between 1516 and 1523 ) and Petermann Etterlin ( d. 1509 ), all three of Lucerne as well as by Gerold Edlibach ( d. 1530 ) of Zürich, and by Johnanes Lenz ( d. 1541 ) of Brugg.

* 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man ( b. c. 1523 )

* March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man ( b. c. 1523 )

* In Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne ( 1523 ), the god's chariot is borne by cheetahs ( which were used as hunting animals in Renaissance Italy ).

Luca Signorelli ( c. 1445 – 16 October 1523 ) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draughtsman and his use of foreshortening.

* Santa Maria dei Miracoli ( 1488 – 1523 ), with a fine façade by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, decorated with bas-reliefs and a Renaissance peristilium.

Pietro Perugino () ( c. 1446 / 1450 – 1523 ), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.

Ambrogio Borgognone ( variously known as Ambrogio da Fossano, Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano, Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano or as il Bergognone, c. 1470s – 1523 / 1524 ) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school.

On display are surviving murals, including a 1523 work depicting Samson and Delilah, the oldest known Renaissance mural in Bohemia.