2013
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| Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec |
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| Gregorian calendar | 2013 MMXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2766 |
| Armenian calendar | 1462 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 169 – 170 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2557 |
| Chinese calendar | 4649/4709-11-20 (壬辰年十一月二十日) — to —
4650/4710-11-29(癸巳年十一月廿九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2005 – 2006 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5773 – 5774 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2068 – 2069 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1935 – 1936 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5114 – 5115 |
| Holocene calendar | 12013 |
| Iranian calendar | 1391 – 1392 |
| Islamic calendar | 1434 – 1435 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 25 (平成25年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2673 (皇紀2673年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 12013 |
| Julian calendar | 2058 |
| Korean calendar | 4346 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2556 |
2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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[edit] Predicted events
[edit] January
Czech Republic is scheduled to adopt the Euro as it official currency
[edit] May
- May 10 - Annular solar eclipse
[edit] June
- The British & Irish Rugby Union team are scheduled to return to Australia on tour for first time in 12 years.
[edit] July
- The Tour De France
[edit] November
- November 3 - Hybrid solar eclipse
[edit] Unknown dates
- Godzilla is to be supposed to make a comeback for his new generation of films.[1]
- The European Union will introduce a common EU-wide driving license.
- Identity cards are set to be compulsory in the United Kingdom if the government ambitions of 2005 are adopted.
- The James Webb Space Telescope is due for launch June 2013 at the earliest.
- Super Bowl XLVII
- The United Kingdom completes its digital switchover with Channel Television in the Channel Islands being the last area to switch off analogue. [2]
- The first stage of the Länsimetro extension of the Helsinki Metro should be finished, allowing metro traffic from Ruoholahti to Matinkylä.
- Compulsory school leaving age in the UK to be increased from 16 to 18 in 2013.[3]
- The East Side Access Project is scheduled to be completed in New York City, allowing Long Island Rail Road commuters to travel to Grand Central Terminal.
- Heavy goods vehicles are due to be forbidden from crossing the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.
[edit] Major religious holidays
- February 1 - Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
- March 20 - Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
- May 1 - Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
- June 21 - Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.
- August 1 - Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
- September 22 - Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon.
- November 1 - Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
- December 21 - Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
- December 25-Christmas
[edit] 2013 in fiction and popular culture
[edit] Television
- In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launch an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.
- The Simpsons "Future-Drama" episode takes place in 2013, at a time the USA is in the middle of "Gulf War V."
- Season 6 of TV series 24 is set in May, 2013.
[edit] Film
- Escape From LA, starring Kurt Russell takes place in 2013
[edit] Comic books
- X-Men: The X-Men try to overthrow the dystopian rule of the robot Sentinels in the Days of Future Past storyline (1980).
- In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes (Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is "destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013."
[edit] Video Games
- Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) is supposed to take place in 2013, according to fictional journal entries on its website
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006) takes place in 2013.
- Gyakuten Saiban 3 Based around this year
| Preceded by 2012 |
Years 2013 |
Succeeded by 2014 |
