2023

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
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Years:	2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• January 1
  • Croatia will adopt the euro and become the 20th member state of the eurozone. This will be the first enlargement of the monetary union since Lithuania's entry in 2015.
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be sworn in as the next President of Brazil after defeating incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election that was held in Brazil on October 30, 2022.
• January 3 – A new outbreak and mutation of Bubonic Plague will emerge in northeastern Kazakhstan. It will swiftly spread around the world, decimating urban population centers everywhere. Within 6 months, almost 1 billion people will lie dead.
• January 12 – January 22 – 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
• January 12 – January 13 – 2023 Czech presidential election.
• February 25 – 2023 Nigerian general election.
• March 5 – 2023 Estonian parliamentary election.
• April 2 – 2023 Finnish parliamentary election.
• May 5 – A penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible in the evening and the following morning in Africa, Asia and Australia, and will be the 24th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.
• May 6 – Coronation of Charles III and Camilla in Westminster Abbey, London.
• May 12 – May 28 – 2023 IIHF World Championship in Finland and Latvia.
• May 9 – May 13 - Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
• May 20 – June 11 – 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia.
• June 16 – July 16 – 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
• June 18 – 2023 Turkish general election.
• June 23 – July 21 – 2023 European Games in Kraków and Małopolska, Poland.
• June 25 – 2023 Guatemalan general election.
• July 20 – August 20 – 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
• July 28 – August 6 – 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.
• August – Africa Super League.
• August 25 – September 10 – 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia.
• September 8 – October 28 – 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
• September 23 – October 8 – 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• September 24 – OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu of the Apollo group.
• October – November 26 – 2023 Cricket World Cup in India.
• October 8 – Next Luxembourg general election in Luxembourg.
• October 14 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible in the Western U.S., Central America, Colombia and Brazil, and will be the 44th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
• October 20 – The 50th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.
• October 20 – November 5 – 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
• October 28 – A partial lunar eclipse will be visible in the evening and the next morning over Europe and most of Africa and Asia, and will be the 11th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 146.
• November 11 – 2023 Polish parliamentary election for the Parliament of Poland.
• December 15 – 2023 Spanish general election for the Cortes Generales.

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• February – Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. The visit was scheduled from 2 to 7 July 2022, but was postponed due to the Pope's ill health. Pope Francis will be the first heir to the Apostle Peter to visit the two countries.
• October – Next Pakistani general election.
• December – Next Bangladeshi general election.
• India is projected to surpass China to become the world's most populous country.
• The Compact of Free Association with the United States for Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
• The European Spallation Source is expected to go into operation in Lund, Sweden.
• Türksat 6A, Turkey's first domestic and national satellite, is planned to be sent to space in cooperation with SpaceX.
• Sudanese general election will occur as part of its transition to democracy, with a constitutional convention on the electoral system and form of government also scheduled.
• Following approval of the draft by the seven EAC states after a year of consultations, the East African Confederation would be established by this year.
• The 2023 Asia Cup is scheduled to be held in Pakistan.
• The first light of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is anticipated to occur in February 2023 with full science operations beginning a year later.