2013

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2010 2011 2012 – 2013 – 2014 2015 2016

2013 by topic:

News by month

Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec

Arts

Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight

Sports

Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2013 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2013 MMXIII
Ab urbe condita	2766
Armenian calendar	1462 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	6763
Bahá'í calendar	169–170
Bengali calendar	1420
Berber calendar	2963
British Regnal year	61 Eliz. 2 – 62 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2557
Burmese calendar	1375
Byzantine calendar	7521–7522
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十一月二十日 (4649/4709-11-20) — to — 癸巳年十一月廿九日 (4650/4710-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1729–1730
Ethiopian calendar	2005–2006
Hebrew calendar	5773–5774
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2069–2070
- Shaka Samvat	1935–1936
- Kali Yuga	5114–5115
Holocene calendar	12013
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	1013–1014
Iranian calendar	1391–1392
Islamic calendar	1434–1435
Japanese calendar	Heisei 25 (平成25年)
Juche calendar	102
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4346
Minguo calendar	ROC 102 民國102年
Thai solar calendar	2556
Unix time	1356998400–1388534399

2013 (MMXIII) is a common year that started on a Tuesday and is the current year. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2013th year in the CE and AD designations; the 13th year in the 3rd millennium and the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2010s.

Events

January

• January 11 – The French military begins operations in the Northern Mali conflict against Islamists.
• January 16–20 – In a hostage crisis and subsequent raid by Algerian forces, 39 international workers and one security guard die at a gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.

February

• February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting tightened sanctions by the international community.
• February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of an asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
• February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as Pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.

March

• March 13 – Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope, taking the name Francis. He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
• March 24 – 2012–2013 Central African Republic conflict: Central African Republic President François Bozizé is overthrown after he flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the onset of the rebels capture the nation's capital.
• March 25 – The European Union agree to €10 billion bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.
• March 27 – Canada becomes the first country to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

April

April 24: Savar building collapse.

• April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.
• April 15 – Two bombs explode at the Boston Marathon, in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
• April 24 – An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, resulting 1,127 deaths, 2,500 injured and scores more trapped. The accident is the world's deadliest structural collapse and the third worst industrial disaster in history.
• April 30 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates, and Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, ascends the throne as King of the Netherlands. He is the first king of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great-grandfather William III in 1890.

May

• May 15 – In a study published in Nature, University of Oregon researchers describe the first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

Predicted and scheduled events

July

• July 1 – Croatia is set to join the European Union as the Union's 28th member. Croatia will be the first country that entered the EU alone (since other countries entered together in 2004 and 2007), although Greece acceded to the European Community alone in 1981.

November

• November 28 – Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) passes to within 1,800,000 kilometres (1,100,000 miles) of the Sun and will be visible during the day to the naked eye from Earth.
• Planned launch of the Indian Mars probe Mangalyaan.

Date unknown

• The space program of the People's Republic of China will attempt its first unmanned Moon landing with the Chang'e 3 mission.
• NASA's Venus In-Situ Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program).
• The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013.
• China's Tiangong-2 to be launched.
• The Megatons to Megawatts Program between the Russian Federation and the United States is expected to expire.

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2013

Further information: Category:2013 deaths

January

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• January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)
• January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
• January 7 – David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)
• January 9 – James M. Buchanan, American Nobel economist (b. 1919)
• January 11 – Nguyen Khanh, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1927)
• January 15 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (b. 1932)
• January 21 – Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)
• January 23 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)

February

Donald A. Glaser

• February 1 – Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• February 14 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
• February 17 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1940)
• February 18 – Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
• February 19
  • Armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914)
  • Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937)
• February 22 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (b. 1923)
• February 23 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
• February 26 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (b. 1917)
• February 27 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
• February 28 – Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)

March

Hugo Chávez

• March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
• March 5
  • Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
  • Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
• March 6 – Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
• March 7
  • Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
  • Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• March 10 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, (b. 1915)
• March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
• March 14 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
• March 20 – Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)
• March 21
  • Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
  • Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (b. 1952)
• March 22 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918)
• March 23
  • Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946)
  • Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)
• March 27 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)
• March 28 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947)

April

Margaret Thatcher

• April 2 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• April 3 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• April 4 – Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (b. 1942)
• April 8 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990) (b. 1925)
• April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
• April 10 – Robert G. Edwards, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1925)
• April 11
  • Maria Tallchief, American prima ballerina (b. 1925)
  • Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
  • Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
• April 14 – Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
• April 18 – Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)
• April 19 – François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
• April 22 – Richie Havens, American folk singer (b. 1941)
• April 26 – George Jones, American country music singer (b. 1931)
• April 28 – János Starker, Hungarian-born American cellist (b. 1924)
• April 30 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian-born singer and actress (b. 1921)

May

Ray Harryhausen

• May 2 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
• May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
• May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
• May 7 – Ray Harryhausen, American producer, director, and creator of special effects (b. 1920)
• May 13 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
• May 15 – Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
• May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)

Major religious holidays

• January 6 – Christmas – Armenian Church
• January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Church
• February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
• February 10 – Chinese New Year
• February 13 – Ash Wednesday
• March 20 – Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara
• March 24 – Palm Sunday
• March 25 – Passover
• March 29 – Good Friday
• March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity)
• May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
• May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity)
• May 9 – Feast of the Ascension (Western Christianity)
• May 19 – Pentecost (Western Christianity)
• June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
• July 9 – Ramadan, Muslims holy month of fasting begins
• August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
• August 7 – Eid al-Fitr, Muslims end of fasting celebration.
• September 4 – Rosh Hashanah
• September 14 – Yom Kippur
• September 16 – Onam
• September 22 – Autumn Equinox, also known as Mabon
• October 15 – Eid al-Adha
• November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year
• November 1 and November 2 – All Saints' Day/All Souls' Day/Dia de Los Muertos – Mexico, parts of Latin America, the Philippines, other Roman Catholic countries
• November 3 – Diwali
• November 27 – Hanukkah
• December 1 – Advent Sunday
• December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule
• December 25 – Christmas (Western Christianity)
• December 26 – Kwanzaa

See also

• 2013 in science
• Works of fiction set in 2013