2013

This article is about the year 2013. For other uses, see 2013 (disambiguation).

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2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It will be the 2013th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2010s decade. It will also be the first year to have digital difference since 1986.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 1 – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to establish and introduce monetary union.

July

• July 1 – Croatia is set to join the European Union.

September

• September 7 – The 125th IOC Session will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September 2013. The International Olympic Committee will meet to elect the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics. They will also elect a new IOC President and will consider adding new sports for the 2020 Olympics.

October

• The Rugby League World Cup will take place in October through to November. The hosts are England and Wales with some matches also being played in France and Ireland.

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 first products using memristor technology are expected to become available.
• The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013.
• China's Tiangong 2 to be launched.

Major religious holidays

• January 7 – Christmas – Eastern Orthodox Churches.
• February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
• March 20 – Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
• March 31 – Easter (Western Christianity).
• May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
• May 5 – Easter (Eastern Christianity).
• June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.
• August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
• September 22 – Autumn Equinox, also known as Mabon.
• November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
• November 3 – Diwali.
• November 28 – Chanukah.
• December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
• December 25 – Christmas.

In fiction

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."

Computer and video games

• Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999): Game is possibly set in this year.
• Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006)
• Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2007): Flashbacks to this year occur.
• Manhunt 2 (2007): Present day missions are possibly set in this year while flashbacks are set in 2007.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010): The events of Call of the Dead occur in March.
• Metro 2033 (2010): A nuclear war occurs in this year.
• Resident Evil 6 (2012): The next virus outbreak in China and America is confirmed to be set in this year

Film

• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
• The Postman (1997)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• The Book of Eli (2010)

Television

• 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 Simpsons episode, "Future-Drama", is set in this year since it aired in 2005 as the Simpsons siblings, Bart and Lisa, are shown where they will be 8 years into the future.
• Smallville's season 9 finale, Salvation depicted a vision of this year.
• The final episodes of the television show Death Note takes place during January of this year.