2013
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2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2013th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2010s decade.
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[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.
- 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 (total/annular) solar eclipse.
- December 31 - Australia's last analogue Television signal will be turned off. [1]
[edit] Unknown dates
| Gregorian calendar | 2013 MMXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2766 |
| Armenian calendar | 1462 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 169 – 170 |
| Bengali calendar | 1420 |
| Berber calendar | 2963 |
| 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 | 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) |
| Korean calendar | 4346 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2556 |
| Unix time | 1356998400 – 1388534399 |
- 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.[2]
- The new fuel efficient, Airbus A350-900 is scheduled to enter airline service in the summer.[3]
- It has been suggested that the current East African Community may federalize into a single state by 2013.[4]
- The United Nations believes the world population will cross the 7 billion mark in this year.[5]
- The Hong Kong MTR West Island Line is due to start service in late 2013.
- 1 World Trade Center is scheduled to be completed by April 2013.
[edit] 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 – Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon.
- November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
- November 27—Chanukah
- December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
- December 25 – Christmas
[edit] In fiction and popular culture
[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] Computer and video games
- 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.
[edit] Film
- Escape From LA (1996)
- The Postman (1997)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
[edit] 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 anime version of Death Note ends in this year, when the main character, Light Yagami, dies from a heart attack after being shot multiple times.
- The Simpsons episode, Future-Drama, is set in this year since it aired in 2005 as the Simpsons siblings, Bart and Lisa, were shows about they will be at 8 years into the future.
[edit] Mathematical interest
- The date will comprise four distinct digits, for the first time since 1987.
- The date will comprise of four consecutive digits, for the first time since 1980.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.digitalready.gov.au/rolloutmap_NSW.aspx
- ^ Tierney, John (June 3, 2008). "The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html.
- ^ Airbus: A350 will be on time
- ^ http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=751
- ^ "The World at Six Billion". United Nations. http://www0.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
