This article is about the year 2013. Millennium: 3rd millennium Centuries: 20th century 21st century 22nd century Decades: 1980s  1990s  2000s  2010s  2020s  2030s  2040s Years: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2013 by topic: News by month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Arts Architecture Art Comics Film Home video Literature (Poetry) Music (Country Metal UK) Radio Television Video gaming Politics Elections Int'l leaders Politics State leaders Sovereign states Science and technology Archaeology Aviation Birding/Ornithology Meteorology Palaeontology Rail transport Science Spaceflight Sports Sport Athletics (Track and Field) Australian Football League Baseball Football (soccer) Cricket Ice Hockey Motorsport Tennis Rugby league By place Algeria Argentina Australia Brazil Canada People's Republic of China Denmark El Salvador Egypt European Union France Germany Ghana India Iraq Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kenya Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Norway Pakistan Palestinian territories Philippines Russia Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Other topics Awards Games Law Religious leaders Video gaming Birth and death categories Births Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments Disestablishments Works and introductions categories Works Introductions v d e 2013 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 2013 MMXIII Ab urbe condita 2766 Armenian calendar 1462 Bah' calendar 169 170 Bengali calendar 1420 Berber calendar 2963 British Regnal year 61 Eliz. 2  62 Eliz. 2 Buddhist calendar 2557 Burmese calendar 1375 Byzantine calendar 7521 7522 Chinese calendar (4649/4709-11-20) to (4650/4710-11-29) Coptic calendar 1729 1730 Ethiopian calendar 2005 2006 Hebrew calendar 5773 5774 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 2069 2070  - Shaka Samvat 1935 1936  - Kali Yuga 5114 5115 Holocene calendar 12013 Iranian calendar 1391 1392 Islamic calendar 1434 1435 Japanese calendar Heisei 25 (25) Korean calendar 4346 Thai solar calendar 2556 Unix time 1356998400 1388534399 v d e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 2013

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 the Anno Domini designation; 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 Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to establish and introduce monetary union. Date unknown The space program of the People's Republic of China will attempt its first unmanned Moon landing.1 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.2 The solar maximum is predicted by NASA to peak during May 2013 3 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 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. Fiction 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 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. References Xin Dingding. "China's moon goal right on schedule". China Daily Clips. http://www.cdeclips.com/en/nation/fullstory.htmlid52639.  Katherine Bourzac. "Memristor Memory Readied for Production". Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25018/af.  http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29maynoaaprediction/