page_title: 1913
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1913 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: Enver Pasha (1881-1922)
context_page_description: 1913 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1913, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – The British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films.
  January 5 – First Balkan War – Battle of Lemnos: Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war.
  January 12 (January 25 Old Style) – Bolshevik activist Josef Dzhugashvili first publishes an article, under the pseudonym Stalin, which he adopts hereafter. At this time he, Adolf Hitler and Josip Broz Tito are simultaneously resident in Vienna.
  January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.
  January 23 – 1913 Tasmanian state election: The Commonwealth Liberal Party candidate, Albert Solomon, is elected premier.
  January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power.
  January 30 – The British House of Lords rejects an Irish Home Rule Bill.
caption: Ismail Enver
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