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	2013 by topic:
	News by month
	Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun; Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec
	Arts
	Architecture – Art – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television
	Politics
	Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states
	Science and technology
	Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight
	Sports
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	By place
	Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – China – Denmark – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Ireland – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – Sri Lanka – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe
	Other topics
	Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming
	Birth and death categories
	Births – Deaths
	Establishments and disestablishments categories
	Establishments – Disestablishments
	Works and introductions categories
	Works – Introductions v • d • e

Century:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decade:	1980s 1990s 2000s - 2010s - 2020s 2030s 2040s
Year:	2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009; 2010 2011 2012 - 2013 - 2014 2015 2016; 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

January 1 – Marseille in France and Košice in Slovakia become European Capital of Culture.
January 1 – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to establish and introduce monetary union.
January 19 – The European Union will introduce a common EU-wide driving licence.
January 20 – The President of the United States takes office at noon. The public swearing-in would be on January 21 (or after), as the 20th is a Sunday.
May 10 – Annular solar eclipse in the South Pacific, visible in Australia. ^[1]
June – The NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be launched.
June – The 17th edition of the Mediterranean Games will begin in Volos and Larisa, Greece.
August – The BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
November 3 – Hybrid solar eclipse.^[2]
December 31 - Australias last Analogue Television signal will be turned off ^[3]

NASA's Venus In-Situ Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program).
Solar power will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels by 2013, according to notable futurist Ray Kurzweil.^[4]
The new fuel efficient, Airbus A350-900 is scheduled to enter airline service in the summer.^[5]
It has been suggested that the current East African Community may federalize into a single state by 2013.^[6]

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."

Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006)
Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2007), Flashbacks to this year occur.

In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.
The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.
BBC Drama Spooks: Code 9 is set in this year.
The anime version of Death Note ends in this year, when the main character, Light Yagami, dies from gunshot wounds.