2013#June

• January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake: A {{M|w|7.5}} ({{M|s|7.7}}, 'Moderate') earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island.
• January 10 – At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
• January 11 – The French military begins a 5-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.{{cite news|title=France launches Mali military intervention|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/2013111135659836345.html|access-date=January 11, 2013|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=January 11, 2013|archive-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170912/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/2013111135659836345.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22664484|title=France army in key Mali withdrawal|publisher=BBC|date=May 25, 2013|access-date=July 25, 2013|archive-date=June 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617214140/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22664484|url-status=live}}
• January 16–20 – 39 international workers and 1 security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sahara-crisis-idUSBRE90F1JJ20130117|title=Thirty hostages reported killed in Algeria assault|last=Chikhi|first=Lamine|date=January 17, 2013|work=Reuters|access-date=January 17, 2013|archive-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201180721/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sahara-crisis-idUSBRE90F1JJ20130117|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21042659|title=Foreigners held hostage by terrorists in Algeria|publisher=BBC|date=January 16, 2013|access-date=January 16, 2013|archive-date=January 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116114619/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21042659|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/algeria-hostage-crisis-briton-confirmed-dead-as-workers-held-hostage-by-terrorists-1-2740491|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216181952/http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/algeria-hostage-crisis-briton-confirmed-dead-as-workers-held-hostage-by-terrorists-1-2740491|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013|title=Algeria hostage crisis: Briton confirmed dead as workers held hostage by terrorists|last=Peterkin|first=Tom|date=January 17, 2013|work=The Scotsman|access-date=July 11, 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world/africa/algeria-attack/index.html|title=Islamists take foreign hostages in attack on Algerian oil field|last1=Watkins|first1=Tom|date=January 16, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Smith-Spark|first2=Laura|last3=Yousuf|first3=Basil|access-date=January 16, 2013|archive-date=January 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117181553/http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world/africa/algeria-attack/index.html|url-status=live}}
• January 27 – An estimated 245 people die in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.{{cite news|title=Police up death toll to 245 in Brazil club fire|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|agency=Associated Press|date=27 January 2013|access-date=27 January 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127220207/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-90-dead-nightclub-fire-brazil|url-status=dead}}

• February 11- The Emergency Alert Systems of five different television stations across the U.S. states of Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico are hijacked, airing a false "Zombie apocalypse" hoax. It is amongst one of the largest cybersecurity breaches in EAS history.{{Cite news |last= |date=2013-02-14 |title=Zombie hack blamed on easy passwords |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/02/14/zombie-hack-blamed-on-easy-passwords/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Anders |first=Melissa |date=2013-02-13 |title=Zombie apocalypse now? Michigan TV stations' Emergency Alert Systems hacked with notice of walking dead |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/2013/02/zombie_apocalypse_now_michigan.html |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=mlive |language=en}}{{Importance inline|date=March 2025|reason=The material preceding this tag may lack sufficient importance.}}
• February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.{{cite news |last=Bilby |first=Ethan |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-eu-idUSBRE91H0E120130218 |title=EU approves tighter sanctions on North Korea |work=Reuters |date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=July 11, 2013 |archive-date=February 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201110756/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-eu-idUSBRE91H0E120130218 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21704862 |title=UN adopts tough new North Korea sanctions after nuclear test |date=March 7, 2013 |publisher=BBC |access-date=March 16, 2013 |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129223256/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21704862 |url-status=live }}
• February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21471942|title=Russia meteor eyewitness: 'Something like the sun fell'|publisher=BBC|date=February 15, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2013|archive-date=June 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614033439/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21471942?|url-status=live}} The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.{{cite news|last=McKie|first=Robin|title=Scientists unveil new detectors in race to save Earth from next asteroid|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/16/scientists-earth-asteroid|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 16, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2013|location=London|archive-date=May 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507065953/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/16/scientists-earth-asteroid|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/science/space/dismissed-as-doomsayers-advocates-for-meteor-detection-feel-vindicated.html|work=The New York Times|title=Vindication for Entrepreneurs Watching Sky: Yes, It Can Fall|access-date=April 22, 2013|date=February 16, 2013|first=William J.|last=Broad|archive-date=November 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104050747/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/science/space/dismissed-as-doomsayers-advocates-for-meteor-detection-feel-vindicated.html|url-status=live}}
• February 21 – American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as transplants for human patients with ear trauma or amputation.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221195804/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9883441/Scientists-create-artificial-ear-using-3D-printing-and-living-cell-gels.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2013|title=Scientists create artificial ear using 3D printing and living-cell gels|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=February 21, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2013|location=London}}
• February 25 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea.{{cite news |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130224000257 |title=Park's swearing-in draws record 70,000 participants |newspaper=The Korea Herald |access-date=16 October 2015 |date=24 February 2013 |archive-date=June 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619225516/http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130224000257 |url-status=live }}
• February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.{{cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-resignation-idUKBRE91Q0BE20130228 |title=Benedict's reign ends with a promise to obey next pope |date=February 28, 2013 |author=Pullella, Philip |work=Reuters |access-date=February 28, 2013 |archive-date=February 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201073212/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-resignation-idUKBRE91Q0BE20130228 |url-status=dead }}

• March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777494|publisher=BBC|title=Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope Francis|date=March 13, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=September 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916140850/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777494|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-succession-idUSBRE92808520130314|title=Argentina's Bergoglio elected as new Pope Francis|last1=Pullella|first1=Philip|date=March 14, 2013|work=Reuters|last2=Moody|first2=Barry|access-date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=February 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202002516/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-succession-idUSBRE92808520130314|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/new-pope-chosen-argentinian-jorge-mario-bergoglio-1.1193437|title=New pope chosen: Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio who becomes Pope Francis|last=Hahn|first=Phil|date=March 13, 2013|publisher=CTV News|access-date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=March 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316025524/http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/new-pope-chosen-argentinian-jorge-mario-bergoglio-1.1193437|url-status=live}} and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.{{cite web|url=http://www.pcusa.org/news/2013/3/20/why-first-jesuit-pope-big-deal|title=Why the first Jesuit pope is a big deal|last=Bell|first=Caleb|date=March 20, 2013|publisher=Presbyterian Church USA|access-date=July 24, 2013|archive-date=August 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816015843/http://www.pcusa.org/news/2013/3/20/why-first-jesuit-pope-big-deal/|url-status=live}}
• March 24 – Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui.{{cite news|title=Central African Republic: Rebels 'take palace as Bozize flees'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901|publisher=BBC|date=March 24, 2013|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627113933/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332481729584103.html|title=CAR rebels 'seize' presidential palace|date=March 24, 2013|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=March 26, 2013|archive-date=March 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324125650/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332481729584103.html|url-status=live}}
• March 25 – The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21797888|title=Eurozone and IMF agree 10bn-euro Cyprus bailout deal|date=March 17, 2013|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=March 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326082147/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21797888|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/ecofin/136487.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403142434/http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ecofin/136487.pdf |archive-date=2013-04-03 |url-status=live|title=Eurogroup Statement on Cyprus|publisher=Eurogroup|date=March 25, 2013}}

• April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|title=U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty|work=Reuters|author=Charbonneau, Louis|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2013|archive-date=February 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202001250/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|url-status=live}}
• April 13 – Venezuelan presidential election: Nicolás Maduro is declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent Henrique Capriles Radonski.{{cite web|date=19 April 2013|title=Venezuela election vote to be audited|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|access-date=19 April 2013|publisher=BBC|archive-date=April 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420002730/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|url-status=live}} Protests continue to October.{{cite news|date=15 April 2013|title="Cacerolazo" contra Maduro ensordece a Venezuela|work=Diario Libre|publisher=Omnimedia|url=http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|access-date=March 9, 2021|archive-date=May 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504200332/http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|url-status=dead}}
• April 15 – Boston Marathon bombing: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|title=Terrorism strikes Boston Marathon as bombs kill 3, wound scores|publisher=CNN|author=Josh Levs and Monte Plott|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=April 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422145041/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|title=Injury toll from Marathon bombs reduced to 264|quote=It turns out that we had double-counted some patients who were transferred from 1 hospital to another, so we reviewed our spreadsheets and cleaned up the duplicates|work=The Boston Globe|last=Kotz|first=Deborah|date=April 24, 2013|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331141156/https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|archive-date=March 31, 2019|url-status=dead}}
• April 20 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolts Sichuan, China, leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.{{cite web |url=http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |title=雅安地震共造成193人死亡21人失踪 |publisher=凤凰网资讯 |date=April 21, 2013 |access-date=April 21, 2013 |archive-date=December 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224030028/http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |url-status=live }}
• April 21 – Businessman Horacio Cartes wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election against Efraín Alegre.
• April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.{{cite web|url=http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|title=Action on Bangladesh|website=IndustriALL|access-date=June 11, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026065216/http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2143075/five-years-nightmare-rana-plaza-what-changed-bangladesh|title=After Rana Plaza horror, what changed for Bangladesh garment workers?|date=April 24, 2018|website=South China Morning Post|access-date=February 24, 2021|archive-date=April 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424065719/https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2143075/five-years-nightmare-rana-plaza-what-changed-bangladesh|url-status=live}}
• April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.{{cite web|title=Royal House of the Netherlands|url=https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|website=royal-house.nl|date=January 14, 2015|access-date=November 30, 2017|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017101613/https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|url-status=live}}

• May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops".
• May 15
• Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning, in a study published in the scientific journal Nature.{{cite news|url=http://www.nature.com/news/human-stem-cells-created-by-cloning-1.12983|title=Human stem cells created by cloning|last=Cyranoski|first=David|date=May 15, 2013|work=Nature|access-date=May 15, 2013|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216093235/http://www.nature.com/news/human-stem-cells-created-by-cloning-1.12983|url-status=live}}
• The World Health Organization names the novel coronavirus Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).{{cite web |title=Novel coronavirus update – new virus to be called MERS-CoV |url=https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/news/news/2013/05/novel-coronavirus-update-new-virus-to-be-called-mers-cov |website=World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe |access-date=30 December 2020 |date=16 May 2013 |archive-date=October 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010085242/https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/news/news/2013/05/novel-coronavirus-update-new-virus-to-be-called-mers-cov |url-status=live }}
• May 20 – The latest EF5 tornado in the United States hits Moore and several other surrounding areas near Oklahoma City, resulting in 24 deaths and many injuries.{{cite report|author=National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Norman, Oklahoma|title=Oklahoma Event Report: EF5 Tornado|url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=451572|publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information|year=2013|access-date=May 11, 2018|archive-date=May 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512113956/https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=451572|url-status=live}}
• May 22 – Off-duty British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich, southeast London, by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10085080/Lee-Rigby-murder-suspect-transferred-from-hospital-to-police-station.html|title=Lee Rigby murder suspect transferred from hospital to police station|first=Claire|last=Carter|date=May 28, 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=April 18, 2019|archive-date=April 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418050321/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10085080/Lee-Rigby-murder-suspect-transferred-from-hospital-to-police-station.html|url-status=live}}
• May 31 – The largest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, United States. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded, and results in eight deaths, including four storm-chasers. Measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex, among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth. As it crosses U.S. 81, the tornado grows to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).{{cite news|title=Oklahoma storms: Amateur storm chaser took photo of tornado that killed him|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/columns/2013/06/03/oklahoma-storms-amateur-storm-chaser-took-photo-of-tornado-that-killed-him/60928721007/|author=Nolan Clay|newspaper=The Oklahoman|publisher=Oklahoma Publishing Company|date=June 3, 2013|access-date=June 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503150711/https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/columns/2013/06/03/oklahoma-storms-amateur-storm-chaser-took-photo-of-tornado-that-killed-him/60928721007/|archive-date= May 3, 2022|url-status=live}}

• June 6 – Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Edward Snowden and the NSA files – timeline|last=Gidda|first=Mirren|date=June 23, 2013|work=The Guardian|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2013-07-27|archive-date=September 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921105235/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline?INTCMP=SRCH|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2013/07/22/Walkers-World-Snowdens-best-refuge/UPI-94631374466020|title=Snowden's best refuge|work=United Press International|author=Walker, Martin|date=2013-07-22|access-date=2013-07-27|archive-date=July 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726210847/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2013/07/22/Walkers-World-Snowdens-best-refuge/UPI-94631374466020/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/europe/edward-snowden-russia.html|title=Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum|first1=Steven|date=August 1, 2013|work=The New York Times|last2=Kramer|first2=Andrew|issn=0362-4331|last1=Myers|access-date=February 26, 2017|archive-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120175922/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/europe/edward-snowden-russia.html|url-status=live}}
• June 12 – Jiroemon Kimura, the verified oldest man to have ever lived, dies at 116 years and 54 days old.{{Cite news |date=2013-06-12 |title=Oldest man in history Jiroemon Kimura dies at 116 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22851848 |access-date=2024-12-22 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• June 23 – A bus carrying 47 Romanian tourists to Tivat, Montenegro, crashes in the Morača canyon in central Montenegro, killing 19 people and injuring 27.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23024162 |title=Deadly bus plunge in Montenegro |publisher=BBC |date=2013-04-09 |accessdate=2013-06-24 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617213553/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23024162 |url-status=live }}
• June 25 – Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani assumes power.{{cite news|title=Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad hands power to son Tamim|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23026870|publisher=BBC|date=June 25, 2013|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=June 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625005221/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23026870|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21580197-remarkable-emir-bows-out-hard-act-follow|title=Qatar's new emir: A hard act to follow|newspaper=The Economist|date=June 27, 2013|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=June 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609074153/http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21580197-remarkable-emir-bows-out-hard-act-follow|url-status=live}}
• June 26
• Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|title=Labor leadership live: Kevin Rudd returns, Julia Gillard loses support of partyroom|work=News.com.au|date=June 26, 2013|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016132633/http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/labor-leadership-live-kevin-rudd-returns-julia-gillard-loses-support-of-partyroom/story-fnho52ip-1226669921693|url-status=dead}} and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/julia-gillard-australia-prime-minister-kevin-rudd|title=Julia Gillard ousted as Australia prime minister|date=June 26, 2013|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=February 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226211809/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/julia-gillard-australia-prime-minister-kevin-rudd|url-status=live}}
• United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 744) decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, overturning a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act and hence granting federal recognition to same-sex marriage in the United States.

• July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/croatia-joins-eu-celebrations-uncertainty|title=Croatia joins EU amid celebrations and uncertainty about future|date=July 1, 2013|work=The Guardian|location=London|issn=0261-3077|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-date=September 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905054606/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/croatia-joins-eu-celebrations-uncertainty|url-status=live}}
• July 3 – Amid protests, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/03/world/meast/egypt-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Coup topples Egypt's Morsy; deposed president under 'house arrest'|last1=Wedemen|first1=Ben|date=July 3, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Sayah|first2=Reza|last3=Smith|first3=Matt|access-date=July 11, 2013|archive-date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708082258/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/03/world/meast/egypt-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23700663|title=Egypt declares national emergency|publisher=BBC|date=August 14, 2013|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327000849/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23700663|url-status=live}}
• July 6
• A runaway train carrying crude oil derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, catching fire and exploding, killing 47 people.{{cite news |title=Canada train derailment: Death toll at 50; Lac-Megantic residents jeer rail CEO (photos) |url=https://www.syracuse.com/news/2013/07/canadian_train_derailment_death_roll_at_50_residents_of_lac-megantic_jeer_rail_c.html |access-date=11 July 2013 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Syracuse.com |archive-date=June 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617165023/https://www.syracuse.com/news/2013/07/canadian_train_derailment_death_roll_at_50_residents_of_lac-megantic_jeer_rail_c.html |url-status=live }}
• Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing 3 people.
• July 21 – Philippe is sworn in as King of the Belgians, following the abdication of Albert II.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-monarchy-king-idUSBRE96K03220130721|title=Belgium subdues divisions for a day to swear in king|last1=Bartunek|first1=Robert-Jan|date=July 21, 2013|work=Reuters|access-date=October 20, 2018|last2=Blenkinsop|first2=Philip|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020225402/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-monarchy-king-idUSBRE96K03220130721|url-status=live}}
• July 22–28 – XIV World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• August 13 – Platform game, Geometry Dash is released by Swedish developer, RobTop.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
• August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 people dead.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|title=Egypt's Brotherhood to hold 'march of anger'|date=2013-08-16|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=2017-02-11|archive-date=August 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816123944/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381522364486906.html|url-status=live}} The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history".{{Cite news|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-raba-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity|title=Egypt: Rab'a Killings Likely Crimes against Humanity|date=2014-08-12|publisher=Human Rights Watch|access-date=2017-02-11|language=en|archive-date=December 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218220007/https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/12/egypt-raba-killings-likely-crimes-against-humanity|url-status=live}}
• August 15 – Horacio Cartes is sworn in as President of Paraguay.
• August 19 – All time most expensive public school in Norway, Kuben Upper Secondary School, opens.NRK (31 July 2013): [http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/skole-til-nesten-2-milliarder-1.11157172 Her er Norges dyreste skole] (Norwegian)
• August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War.{{cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|title=Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013|date=August 30, 2013|via=National Archives|publisher=White House|access-date=August 30, 2013|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118002457/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21|url-status=live}}
• August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on Syria.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria|title=Blow to Cameron's authority as MPs rule out British assault on Syria|author1=Nicholas Watt|author2=Rowena Mason|author3=Nick Hopkins|website=The Guardian|date=August 30, 2013|access-date=October 30, 2017|archive-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830032727/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/cameron-mps-syria|url-status=live}}

• September 7
• 2013 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3843467.htm|title=Kevin Rudd concedes defeat|work=AM|publisher=ABC Radio|author=Eastley, Tony|location=Australia|format=transcript|date=September 8, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2015|archive-date=February 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216132821/http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3843467.htm|url-status=live}} Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.{{Cite web|url=https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-2013|title=2013 Federal Election {{pipe}} AustralianPolitics.com|website=australianpolitics.com|access-date=September 22, 2019|archive-date=September 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922214531/https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-2013|url-status=live}}
• The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web |last=Ryall |first=Julian |date=September 8, 2013 |title=Japan celebrates as Tokyo wins right to host 2020 Olympic Games ahead of Madrid and Istanbul |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10294032/Japan-celebrates-as-Tokyo-wins-right-to-host-2020-Olympic-Games-ahead-of-Madrid-and-Istanbul.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911065415/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10294032/Japan-celebrates-as-Tokyo-wins-right-to-host-2020-Olympic-Games-ahead-of-Madrid-and-Istanbul.html |archive-date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=September 17, 2017 |website=The Daily Telegraph}}
• September 8 – The 2013 Colorado floods begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin.
• September 17 – Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.{{Cite web |last=Lynch |first=Kevin |date=2013-10-08 |title=Confirmed: Grand Theft Auto 5 breaks 6 sales world records |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/10/confirmed-grand-theft-auto-breaks-six-sales-world-records-51900 |access-date=2019-03-28 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-GB}}
• September 21 – al-Shabaab militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189116|title=Nairobi siege: What we know|work=BBC News|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=September 24, 2013|archive-date=December 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231224748/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189116|url-status=live}}

• October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Minamata-mercury-treaty-signed-at-UN-conference/articleshow/23918246.cms|title=Minamata mercury treaty signed at UN conference|date=2013-10-10|newspaper=The Times of India|access-date=2013-10-11}}

• October 15 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol, Philippines, leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.{{cite web|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ,%203Nov2013,%206AM.pdf |title=SitRep No. 35 re Effects of Magnitude 7.2 Sagbayan, Bohol Earthquake |publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council |date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214193612/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1108/NDRRMC%20Update%20SitRep%20no.%2035%20re%20Effects%20of%20M7.2%20Bohol%20EQ%2C%203Nov2013%2C%206AM.pdf |archive-date=December 14, 2013}}
• October 12 – Twelve people are killed when an apartment building collapses in Medellín, Colombia.{{Cite news |date=2014-09-23 |title=Medellin tower blocks demolished after collapse |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29324660 |access-date=2024-09-20 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• October 16 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse Airport, Laos, killing all 49 people on board.
• October 17 – Microsoft releases Windows 8.1.
• October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes the seat on December 6.{{cite news|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2013/10/article55319608|title=Saudi Arabia declines UN Security Council seat|work=Asharq Al-Awsat|date=2013-10-18|access-date=2013-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019022009/http://www.aawsat.net/2013/10/article55319608|archive-date=2013-10-19}}

• November 5 – The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad in Sriharikota.{{Cite news |last=Ram |first=Arun |date=2013-11-05 |title=Mars mission starts, Mangalyaan launched successfully |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mars-mission-starts-Mangalyaan-launched-successfully/articleshow/25259358.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107190855/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-05/india/43693030_1_orbiter-mission-mars-orbiter-mission-director-p-kunhikrishnan |archive-date=2013-11-07 |access-date=2013-11-05 |work=The Times of India}}
• November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 people dead.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |title=Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines |date=2013-11-10 |work=BBC News |access-date=2013-11-10 |archive-date=November 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113120653/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 |url-status=live }}
• November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.{{cite news|title=Bacon painting fetches record price|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|access-date=November 14, 2013|date=November 13, 2013|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=November 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114015858/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html|title=At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=November 12, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 13, 2013|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401110459/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html|url-status=live}}
• November 17
• Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
• A tornado outbreak occurs in Illinois, United States. An EF4 tornado in Washington causes $935 million (${{inflation|US|.935|2013|r=3}} billion adjusted) of property damage, killing 3 people.{{cite web |url=https://www.weather.gov/ilx/17nov13 |title=Historic Tornado Outbreak of November 17, 2013 |publisher=National Weather Service Central Illinois }}
• November 21
• Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|title=Ukraine's Euromaidan: Now Comes the Hard Part|last=Welt|first=Cory|date=2013-12-23|access-date=2017-02-11|work=Center for American Progress|archive-date=December 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225050758/http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2013/12/23/81532/ukraines-euromaidan-now-comes-the-hard-part/|url-status=live}}
• Moldovan-flagged cargo ship {{MV|Rhosus}} makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the Rhosus is deemed unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a massive explosion on August 4, 2020.{{cite journal |url=https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf#page=3 |title=m/v Rhosus – Arrest and Personal Freedom of the Crew |date=October 2015 |number=11 |journal=The Arrest News |access-date=8 August 2020 |first1=Charbel |last1=Dagher |first2=Christine |last2=Maksoud |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805004609/https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53683082|title=How ship's deadly cargo ended up at Beirut port|date=6 August 2020|work=BBC News|access-date=August 21, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204075050/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53683082|url-status=live}}
• November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits ability to create nuclear weapons|last1=Sciutto|first1=Jim|date=November 24, 2013|publisher=CNN|last2=Carter|first2=Chelsea|access-date=November 24, 2013|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204061733/https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729|title=Iran agrees to curb nuclear activity at Geneva talks|publisher=BBC|date=November 24, 2013|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=March 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326082514/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729|url-status=live}}
• November 29 – A police helicopter crashes into The Clutha, a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.

• December 7 – Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25274889|title=WTO agrees global trade deal worth $1tn|last=Walker|first=Andrew|date=December 7, 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=December 7, 2013|archive-date=December 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207070903/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25274889|url-status=live}}
• December 14 – Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603|title=China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon|last=Rincon|first=Paul|date=December 14, 2013|access-date=2017-02-11|publisher=BBC|archive-date=January 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112042913/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25356603|url-status=live}}
• December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into civil war.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/south-sudan-state-that-fell-apart-in-a-week|title=South Sudan: the state that fell apart in a week|last=Howden|first=Daniel|date=2013-12-23|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-11|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=December 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225021638/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/south-sudan-state-that-fell-apart-in-a-week|url-status=live}}

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• Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel
• Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
• Literature – Alice Munro
• Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs
• Physiology or Medicine – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof

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