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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.
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Marseille in France and Košice in Slovakia become European Capitals 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.
- May 10 – Annular solar eclipse in the South Pacific, visible in Australia.
- May 19 – Expect Us.
- 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.
Unknown dates
- China will make its first unmanned Moon landing.[1]
- 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 first products using memristor technology are expected to become available.[3]
- The new fuel efficient, Airbus A350-900 is scheduled to enter airline service in the summer.[4]
- It has been suggested that the current East African Community may federalize into a single state by 2013.[5]
- The Hong Kong MTR West Island Line is due to start service in late 2013.
- One World Trade Center, an environmentally integrated structure[6] which is set to become the tallest building in the United States, is expected to open in April 2013.[7]
- The sun is expected to reach solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 in the 11-year sunspot cycle.
- The International Olympic Committee will decide the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Mid-2013.
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 28—Chanukah
- December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
- December 25 – Christmas
In fiction and popular culture
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
- 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.
- Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999),The game is set in this year.
Film
- Escape From LA (1996)
- The Postman (1997)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
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, are shown where they will be at 8 years into the future.
- Smallville's season 9 finale, Salvation depicted a vision of this year.
Mathematical interest
- The date will comprise four distinct digits, for the first time since 1987.
References
- ^ http://www.cdeclips.com/en/nation/fullstory.html?id=52639
- ^ Tierney, John (June 3, 2008). "The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least". New York Times.
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- ^ Airbus: A350 will be on time
- ^ http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=751
- ^ Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center (2010). 1 World Trade Center (Freedom Tower). Retrieved 22 March 2010.
- ^ Ward, Chris (2008). World Trade Center Report: A Roadmap Forward (PDF) (Report). Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. p. 26. Retrieved October 2, 2008.