2023

2023 (MMXXIII) is the current year, and is .
The year started with the continuation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in early 2022. In January, an Islamist suicide bomber killed over 80 people in a mosque in Pakistan. In February, a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 46,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century.
Former King of Greece Constantine II, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, musician Burt Bacharach and singer Tina Turner died.
Events
January
January 1
Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area, becoming the 20th member state of the Eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen Area.
Uzbekistan switches from Cyrillic script to Latin script.
January 5-13
Unrest follows the arrest of drug kingpin Ovidio Guzman Lopez in Sinaloa, Mexico, killing 10 soldiers and 19 cartel members.
The funeral for Pope Benedict XVI is held at Saint Peter's Square within the Vatican City.
January 8
A bus crash in Senegal kills 40 people and injures over 100 others.
COVID-19 pandemic: China reopens its borders to international visitors, marking the end of travel restrictions that began in March 2020.
Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.
January 10 - Constantine II, the last King of Greece, dies aged 82.
January 15 - A plane crash in Nepal kills all 72 people onboard.
January 16 - Italian police arrest Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, Sicily.
January 17
A winter storm in Afghanistan begins, killing over 120 people.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigns as President of Vietnam and is replaced by Vo Thi Anh Xuan.
January 18
A helicopter crash near Kyiv, Ukraine kills fourteen people, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky.
Gaston Browne is re-elected Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
January 19 - Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation as Prime Minister of New Zealand, months before the general election. Three days later, Chris Hipkins is elected as her replacement.
January 20 - Christine Kangaloo is elected as the 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago.
January 21 - In a mass shooting at a Chinese New Year celebration, a gunman kills eleven people in Monterey Park, California, United States. Two days later, seven others would be killed in another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California.
January 23 - Former President of Guatemala Alvaro Colom dies at the age of 71.
January 24 - A green comet makes its closest approach to the Earth.
January 27-28 - The second round of the 2023 Czech presidential election is held. Petr Pavel wins the election.
January 30 - An Islamist suicide bomber kills over 80 people in a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
February
February 3 - A train carrying hazardous materials runs off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio. A bunch of train cars burned for more than two days, and then emergency crews did a controlled burn of more cars. The fires released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere.
February 4 - The U.S. Government shoots down a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina.
February 5 - The 2023 Cypriot presidential election is held, with Nikos Christodoulides elected president.
February 6 - An earthquake in southeastern Turkey kills over 45,000 people in Turkey and over 6,000 in Syria.
February 20 - 2023 Daytona 500.
February 21 - Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.
February 25 - 2023 Nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria's president, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
February 27 - The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement about changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
February 28 - A head-on train crash in Tempi, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece kills at least 57 people.
March
March 2 - The National Assembly of Vietnam declares Vo Van Thuong as the country's new president after receiving 98.38% votes from the Vietnamese parliament.
March 4 - UN member states agree on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.
March 5 - Estonian parliamentary election
March 9 - A former Jehovah's Witness kills seven people, a fetus and himself in a mass shooting at a Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany.
March 10
2023 People's Republic of China presidential election: The National People's Congress unanimously re-elects Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.
Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016 at talks meditated by China.
Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world.
March 17 - The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin. This is the first arrest warrant it has issued against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
March 19 - Swiss investment bank UBS Group AG agrees to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs () in an all-stock deal brokered by the government of Switzerland and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.
March 20 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.
March 26 - 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests: Protests break out across Israel, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister who spoke against the government's judicial reform plan.
March 27
A trans man shoots dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Detainees at an immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, set fire to their mattresses, killing 39 people.
April
April 2
2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election
2023 Montenegrin presidential election: Jakov Milatovic of the Europe Now! movement wins in the second round, becoming the first president not from the DPS party since the introduction of a multi-party system in 1990.
2023 Finnish parliamentary election: the centre-right National Coalition led by Petteri Orpo receives the most votes.
2023 Andorran parliamentary election: the ruling Democrats for Andorra led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot win the majority of the seats.
2023 Saint Petersburg bombing: Russian pro-government war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky is killed by a bombing at a cafe in Saint Petersburg owned by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. Sixteen others are injured.
April 4 - Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO.
April 10 - Two document leaks from the Pentagon detailing foreign military aid relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are leaked onto the Internet.
April 11 - Myanmar civil war: In the village of Pazigyi, at least 165 people are killed by the Myanmar Air Force during the opening celebrations of a People's Defence Force administration office.
April 14 - Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Moons of Jupiter. It is expected to reach the moons in 2031.
April 15
Nuclear power in Germany ends after the final power plants close. Nuclear was a power source for the country for over 50 years.
Fighting breaks out across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The RSF captures Khartoum International Airport, and the presidential palace in Khartoum.
April 19 - At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.
April 20
SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is launched during a flight test from a base in Boca Chica, Texas, United States. It explodes four minutes after launch.
A hybrid solar eclipse is visible from Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia.
April 25 - A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest, Kenya. 110 followers are found in shallow graves throughout the forest. Over 300 people remain missing. It is believed Good News International Ministries leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told his followers to starve themselves to death in order to "meet God".
April 26 - Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a month after Xi's summit with Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
April 30 - 2023 Paraguayan general election: the Colorado Party candidate Santiago Pena is elected as the next president.
May
May 1 - 2023 banking crisis: San Francisco-based First Republic Bank fails and is auctioned off by the US FDIC to JPMorgan Chase for $10.7 billion. The collapse surpasses March's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to become the second largest in US history.
May 2 - Floods hit Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
May 3 - Belgrade school shooting
May 4 - 4 May 2023 Serbia shootings
May 5 - The World Health Organization announces that COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency.
May 6 - The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
May 9 - Cyclone Mosha
May 9-13 - The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is held in Liverpool, UK.
May 13-27 - A parliamentary election happens in Mauritania.
June
June 2 - 2023 Odisha train collision
June 8 - Severe flooding starts in South Korea.
June 12 - Kwara boat disaster
June 13 - 2023 Nottingham attacks
June 14 - 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster
June 16 - Mpondwe school massacre
June 18 - Titan submersible implosion
June 20 - Tamara prison riot
July
July 17 - Wildfires begin in Greece, killing 35 people.
July 18 - Voyager 2 overtook Pioneer 10 to become the 2nd farthest spacecraft from the Sun.
July 30 - 2023 Khar bombing
August
August 1 - Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 degC, exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also confirmed as having been the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (0.3 degC).
August 6 - 2023 Hazara Express derailment
August 8 - Wildfires begin in Hawaii, killing over 115 people.
August 15 - A wildfire begins in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
August 23 - 2023 Tver plane crash
August 30 - The military of Gabon performs a coup, replacing Ali Bongo Ondimba as president.
September
September 24 - OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.