2013

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

Contents

Predicted events

Unknown dates

Anniversaries

Major religious holidays

2013 in fiction and popular culture

Comic books

Computer and video games

Film

Television

Predicted events

★ January 1 — Czech Republic and Hungary are scheduled to adopt the Euro as their official currency.

★ January 20 — Inauguration of the President of the United States.

★ May 10 — Annular solar eclipse.

★ 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 3 — Hybrid solar eclipse.

Unknown dates

★ 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.

★ This will be the year when Godzilla will make a comeback in order to renew interest in the series [3].

Anniversaries

★ May 22 — 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth.

★ July — Tour de France on the 100th anniversary of the first event.

★ August - 50th anniversary of Spider-Man

★ September 13 - 50th anniversay of the formation of Malaysia.

★ November 23 — 50th anniversary of television sci-fi drama ''Doctor Who''.

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.

★ May 1 — Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.

★ 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.

★ '' (2006) takes place in 2013.

★ ''Gyakuten Saiban 3'' Based around 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 launch an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.

★ An episode in ''The Simpsons'' ("Future-Drama") takes place in 2013, at a time when the United States is in the middle of "Gulf War V".