2013

2013 (MMXIII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

Czech Republic and Hungary are scheduled to adopt the Euro as their official currency.

January

• January 20 — Inauguration of the President of the United States. Provided that the 44th President's term has been served fully, this will either mark the beginning of the second term of the 44th President, or the first term of the 45th President.

May

• May 10 — Annular solar eclipse.

June

• June — The British & Irish Rugby Union team are scheduled to return to Australia on tour for first time in 12 years.
• June — The James Webb Space Telescope is due for launch.

November

• November 3 — Hybrid solar eclipse.

Unknown dates

• The 17th edition of the Mediterranean Games will take place in Volos and Larisa, Greece in 2013.
• The European Union will introduce a common EU-wide driving licence.
• Identity cards are set to be compulsory in the United Kingdom if the government ambitions of 2005 are adopted.
• Super Bowl XLVII.
• The United Kingdom completes its digital switchover with Channel Television in the Channel Islands being the last area to switch off analogue. [1]
• The first stage of the Länsimetro extension of the Helsinki Metro should be finished, allowing metro traffic from Ruoholahti to Matinkylä.
• Compulsory school leaving age in the UK to be increased from 16 to 18 in 2013. [2]
• The East Side Access Project is scheduled to be completed in New York City, allowing Long Island Rail Road commuters to travel to Grand Central Terminal.
• Heavy goods vehicles are due to be forbidden from crossing the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.

Major religious holidays

• 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 churches)
• May 1 — Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
• May 5 — Easter (Eastern churches)
• 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.
• December 21 — Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
• December 25 — Christmas.

2013 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

• Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) is supposed to take place in 2013, according to fictional journal entries on its website.
• Shattered Union (2005): The District of Columbia is destroyed this year by a low-yield nuclear weapon.
• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (2006) takes place in 2013.
• Gyakuten Saiban 3 Based around this year.
• Mega Man IV, Superadventure Rockman and Mega Man V^{[citation needed]} are set in this year.

Film

• Escape From LA, starring Kurt Russell takes place in 2013.
• The Postman (1997).

Television

• In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain, Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.am:2013 እ.ኤ.አ.

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