Hongi Hika makes peace with the Waikato iwi in 1823 and invades Te Arawa territory in Rotorua.

Various attacks are soon made against the growing settlement of Bathurst following Governor Brisbane's decision to open settlement to the west of the Blue Mountains.

In 1822, Wiradjuri warriors attack  a station on the Cudgegong River, in which they drive away the stockman, let the cattle out of the yard and kill several of the sheep.

More attacks follow with the murder of convict hut-keepers, scattered herds and speared cattle.

Stockmen are intimidated and will not leave their huts to round up the cattle and bring them in without protection.

The government center at Swallow Creek is soon abandoned in fear of attack.

In late 1823, Windradyne (known as Saturday by the British) is captured for the first time.

…against Russia, a third Great Power, whose proximity to Ottoman territory has long caused fears in London and Paris that the Russian Empire might reach the Mediterranean Sea.

The first priority in European Great Power politics after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815 has been Maintenance of the status quo.

In such an atmosphere, the attention of the Great Powers (primarily France and Britain) can be drawn most quickly by situations that disrupt their common economic interests.

Indeed, in 1823, the war in Greece has already begun curtailing commerce in the eastern Mediterranean, but the European powers realize that the defeat of the Ottoman Empire will leave a power vacuum over a very large, strategically important region.

Therefore, they move cautiously to ensure an advantageous position after the anticipated collapse.

These calculations balance Britain and France ...

Adam Mickiewicz’s second volume of poetry, published in 1823, contains the narrative poem Grazyna and parts two and four of Forefathers' Eve, a new type of drama drawn from the Belorussian folk rite of ancestor worship.

In this same year, Mickiewicz is arrested on charges of belonging to an anti-Russian conspiracy and is exiled to Russia.

The Wallinska skolan, the first secondary education school for girls in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, is founded in 1831 by the historian Anders Fryxell upon suggestion by the bishop and writer Johan Olof Wallin.

The school is founded out of intellectual discontent over the contemporary shallow education of females in the contemporary finishing schools, such as Bjurströmska pensionen.

Wallin convinces Fryxell that girls should be educated "with higher ambitions than to learn to speak French and play the klavér", because also women have the right to serious studies, and that it will surely prove to be needed in the future.

Work begins in 1823 on the Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and ...

...the British Museum in London, designed by Robert Smirke.

Britain recognizes the political significance of the port of Ash-Shariqah, which has long been an important strategic and commercial center in the Persian Gulf, by stationing a native agent (later succeeded by a British agent) as their “residency agent” here from 1823.