23 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	50s BC  40s BC  30s BC  – 20s BC –  10s BC  0s BC  0s
Years:	26 BC 25 BC 24 BC – 23 BC – 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC

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Year 23 BC was either a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday or a leap year starting on Friday, Saturday or Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Varro.

Events

• Caesar Augustus becomes Roman Consul for the eleventh time. His partner is Aulus Terentius Varro Murena.
• Augustus becomes very ill. He gives Agrippa his signet ring.
• The Nubians, led by queen Candace Amanirenas, attack the Roman province of Egypt
• Herod the Great builds a palace in Jerusalem
• The as coin was struck in reddish pure copper, instead of bronze
• Ma'nu III Saphul becomes ruler of Osroene
• The Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius finishes writing De Architectura. It is perhaps the first book on architecture.
• Roman poet Horace publishes the first three books of Odes

Births

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• Dong Xian (d. 1 BC)
• Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Samaria (d. AD 18)

Deaths

• Marcus Claudius Marcellus, son of Octavia and nephew of Augustus (b. 42 BC)