1923
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1920 1921 1922 – 1923 – 1924 1925 1926 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1923 MCMXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2676 |
| Armenian calendar | 1372 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6673 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 79–80 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1844–1845 |
| Bengali calendar | 1330 |
| Berber calendar | 2873 |
| British Regnal year | 13 Geo. 5 – 14 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2467 |
| Burmese calendar | 1285 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7431–7432 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4619 or 4559 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4620 or 4560 |
| Coptic calendar | 1639–1640 |
| Discordian calendar | 3089 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1915–1916 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5683–5684 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1979–1980 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1844–1845 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5023–5024 |
| Holocene calendar | 11923 |
| Igbo calendar | 923–924 |
| Iranian calendar | 1301–1302 |
| Islamic calendar | 1341–1342 |
| Japanese calendar | Taishō 12 (大正１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1853–1854 |
| Juche calendar | 12 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4256 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 12 民國12年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 455 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2465–2466 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 2049 or 1668 or 896 — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 2050 or 1669 or 897 |
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- January 1 – Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies
- January 10 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel
- January 11 – Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments
- February 16 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
- February 22 – Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.
- March – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.
- March 1 – USS Connecticut decommissioned
- March 2 – Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time
- March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
- April – End of Irish Civil War
- April 12 – Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
- April 23 – Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport
- April 26 – Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
- May 23 – Launch of Belgium's SABENA Airlines
- May 27 – Ku Klux Klan defies law requiring publication of its members
- June 9 – Military coup in Bulgaria – prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is ousted (he is killed June 14)
- June 18 – Etna volcano erupts – 60.000 made homeless
Births
January
- January 15 – Lee Teng-hui, 4th President of the Republic of China (d. 2020)
- January 25 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish neuroscientist (d. 2018)
- January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
February
- February 4 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
- February 4 – Belisario Betancur, 26th President of Colombia (d. 2018)
- February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (d. 2019)
March
- March 22 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (d. 2007)
April
- April 5 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 2nd President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
- April 23 - Krastyu Trichkov, Bulgar politician
May
- May 7 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
- May 10 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
- May 27 – Henry Kissinger, 56th United States Secretary of State (d. 2023)
- May 28 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director and politician (d. 1996)
- May 31 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
June
- June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
July
- July 6 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, 1st President of Poland (d. 2014)
- July 11 – Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and political expert (d. 2018)
- July 22 – Bob Dole, American politician (d. 2021)
August
- August 2 – Shimon Peres, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)
- August 10 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress (d. 2020)
September
- September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2015)
October
- October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor and political activist (d. 2008)
- October 5 – Glynis Johns, Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer
- October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
November
December
- December 13 – Philip W. Anderson, American Nobel physicist (d. 2020)
Deaths
- February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate