Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

He went to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 44 ), and was made governor of Terni, Rieti, and Spoleto.

Preparatory schools, gymnasiums, were also founded during this period in various cathedral towns, notably Västerås ( the first one ) in 1623.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

In 1623, the community of nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation was founded at Cambrai, which was expelled during the French Revolution and its successor community has since 1838 been established at Stanbrook Abbey, near Malvern.

Montagu accompanied Prince Charles during his 1623 trip to Habsburg Spain in pursuit of the Spanish Match.

Though Frederick III held the elevated status of a prince elector, this status was also gained by Maximilian I of Bavaria in 1623, during the Thirty Years ' War, also by the Elector of the Palatinate in the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), and by Ernest Augustus of the House of Hanover in 1692.

Conway brought over many English and Welsh settlers during the Ulster Plantation ; he also had a manor house built on what is now Castle Gardens and in 1623 a church on the site of the current cathedral.

The year 1623 saw publication of Titelouze's Hymnes de l ' Eglise, a collection of organ settings of various plainchant hymns to be used during the liturgy.

Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby ( c. 1623 – 1657 ), was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide.

Between 1616 and 1623 it was a residence of Anna of Finland ; during this period a Renaissance attic was added.

King James ' determination to avoid involvement in the continental conflict, even during the " war fever " of 1623, appears in retrospect as one of the most significant, and most positive, aspects of his reign.

The next year, 1611, he was hired by the Duke of Savoy to direct music in Turin, where he remained until 1623 ; these were the most productive years of his life, during which he amalgamated the disparate types of music he had heard and absorbed during the years 1600-1610 into a unified style.

The death of two Massachusett military leaders during an altercation with Captain Miles Standish of Plymouth Colony in 1623 caused the Massachusett to avoid further contact.

However, during the ten year activity of the company between 1613 and 1623, apart from the first ship ( Clove in 1613 ), only three other English ships brought cargoes directly from London to Japan.

In 1623, during the Amboyna massacre, 9 Japanese mercenaries were recorded to have been with the 10 English traders of the British East India Company factory.

Also in comparison, the English factory in Hirado only received four ships from England in the space of 10 years ( during its existence between 1613 and 1623 ), with generally non-valuable cargo.

On August 6, 1623 during the Thirty Years ' War the Battle of Stadtlohn ( German: Schlacht im Lohner Brook ) saw Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly's imperial troops victorious over Duke Christian of Brunswick's men.

Father Ferdinand Verbiest ( 9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688 ) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty.

In their efforts to keep the sultanate together, the rulers shifted their centre of power many times from Pekan Tua to Johor Lama ( Kota Batu ), Seluyut, Tanah Puteh, Batu Sawar and Makam Tauhid during the reign of Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah III ( 1623 – 1677 ).

It is thought to have been rediscovered in the early 17th century during some excavations for the foundations of the Villa Ludovisi and was first recorded in a 1623 inventory of the collections of the powerful Ludovisi family of Rome.

Ready to abandon his quest, he discovers a copy of the original First Folio of 1623 among his grandfather's books, the shock of which causes another incident, during which he relives his lost memories of childhood.

From 1618 to 1623 he held the preachership of St Gregory by St Paul's, and during the same period preached occasionally at St. Paul's Cross and Whitehall.

In the 1620s, with the Thirty Year's War turning against the Protestants, Knyphausen had the misfortune to be repeatedly on the losing side, witnessing the defeats at the Battle of Höchst ( 1622 ) and the battle of Stadtlohn ( 1623 ).

In 1623, having been taken in the sack of Heidelberg in the Thirty Years ' War, it was sent with the rest of the Palatine Library to Rome as a present from Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV, who had it divided into two parts, the first of which was by far the larger ; thence it was taken to Paris in 1797.

At the outbreak of the Thirty Years ' War he took the field on the Protestant side, and served under Mansfeld at Wiesloch ( 1622 ), under the Margrave of Baden at Wimpfen ( 1622 ), and with his brother William at Stadtlohn ( 1623 ).

In 1623, the hereditary Palatine Library of Heidelberg containing about 3, 500 manuscripts was given to the Vatican by Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria ( who had just acquired it as booty in the Thirty Years ' War ) in thanks for the adroit political maneuvers of Pope Gregory XV that had sustained him in his contests with Protestant candidates for the electoral seat.

The Thirty Years ' War devastated Mohelnice – in 1623 it was plundered by Swedish troops and over 30 % of the inhabitants died either from enemy attacks or plague which returned in 1642, 1643, 1644 and 1647.

* A Discourse of a War with Spain ( 1623 )

* An Advertisement touching an Holy War ( 1623 )

Murad IV reconquered Ottoman – Safavid War ( 1623 – 1639 ) | Baghdad from the Safavids in 1638.

1655 English print depicting the Amboyna massacre of 1623, which was deployed by the English party that favoured war with the Dutch for propaganda purposes in the years leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

* History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603 – 1642 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner ( 1883 ): Volume I ( 1603 – 1607 ), Volume II ( 1607 – 1616 ), Volume III ( 1616 – 1621 ), Volume IV ( 1621 – 1623 ), Volume V ( 1623 – 1625 ), Volume VI ( 1625 – 1629 ), Volume VII ( 1629 – 1635 ), Volume VIII ( 1635 – 1639 ), Volume IX ( 1639 – 1641 ), Volume X ( 1641 – 1642 )

In 1623, King Chey Chettha II of Cambodia ( 1618 – 1628 ) allowed Vietnamese refugees fleeing the Trịnh-Nguyễn War in Vietnam to settle in the area of Prey Nokor, and to set up a custom house at Prey Nokor.

In 1623, the year following the outbreak of the first major Anglo-Powhatan War in Virginia, the Virginia General Assembly commanded, " that men go not to work in the ground without their arms ; That no man go or send abroad without a sufficient partie well armed.

One of Heda's early masterpieces, dated 1623 and in Alte Pinakothek, Munich, is as homely as a later one of 1651 in the Liechtenstein Gallery at Vienna.

# Federico Ubaldo della Rovere ( 1605 – 1623 )-title became extinct with his death

Possibly this prompted Musashi to leave, embarking on a new series of travels, winding up in Edo in 1623, where he became friends with the Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan, who was one of the Shogun's advisors.

He also became a national figure in Ireland, becoming Privy Councillor in 1623 and an increasingly substantial scholar.

In 1623, he became vice-admiral of the new Dutch West India Company ( WIC ) and sailed to the West Indies the following year.

In the mid 17th century, Charlotte Gouffier became enamored with the renowned intellect, Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 62 ), who spent considerable time at the Château d ' Oiron.

The first that is known about him is that he became a freeman of the Leathersellers Company in January 1623, having served an eight-or nine-year apprenticeship.

On 23 February 1623, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor awarded Frederick's electoral title to Maximilian of Bavaria, who now became Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.

Algernon Sidney or Sydney ( 14 or 15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683 ) was an English politician, republican political theorist, colonel, and opponent of King Charles II of England, who became involved in a plot against the King and was executed for treason.

In 1623 he became senior organist at the Chapel Royal, with Thomas Tomkins as junior organist.

Officially, Herbert became Master of the Revels in 1641 ; in actuality he had been doing the work of the office since 1623.

In 1623 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Devon and in May 1627 became Earl of Bedford on the death of his cousin Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford.

The practice was continued until the Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623, ending most monopolies, with certain exceptions, such as patents ; after 1623, grants of Letters patent to publishers became common.

Wilhelm Schickard ( 22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635 ) was a German professor of Hebrew and Astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Dr. Franz Hammer, a biographer of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release of Pascal's calculator by twenty years, had been discovered in two unknown letters written by Schickard to Johannes Kepler in 1623 and 1624.

The death of Gregory XV the following year did not interrupt the organization, because Cardinal Barberini, one of the original thirteen members of the congregation, became the next pope as Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ).

The river is named after William Blackstone ( original spelling William Blaxton ) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1623, and became the first settler of present day Boston in 1625.

These vague suspicions became concrete when in February 1623 one of the Japanese mercenary soldiers ( ronin, or masterless samurai in the employ of the VOC ) was caught in the act of spying on the defenses of the fortress Victoria.

In 1623, the colony became the Province of Avalon when Calvert's grant was confirmed, growing to a population of 100 by 1625.

The first impression had a publication date of 1623, and the earliest record of a retail purchase is an account book entry for 5 December 1623 of Edward Dering ( who purchased two ); the Bodleian Library, in Oxford, received its copy in early 1624 ( which it subsequently sold for £ 24 as a superseded edition when the Third Folio became available in 1664 ).

On 3 July 1623, he acquired his bachelor of divinity and became licensed to preach shortly after on 11 July 1623.

He was introduced to Cardinal Richelieu in 1623, and became one of five poets to inspire Richelieu's works.

In 1623, when he agreed to the building of a cabin for the Recollets at what was to be known as Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Auoindaon became convinced that the Europeans were oki, influential spirits or forces.