2013

2013 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

May

• 10th - Annular solar eclipse

November

• 3rd - Hybrid solar eclipse

As Of Yet Unknown

• The Kyushu Shinkansen high speed rail line in Japan is scheduled to be completed, linking Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Fukuoka.
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission CVN-78, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• Identity cards are set to be compulsory in the United Kingdom if the government ambitions of 2005 are adopted.

2013 in fiction

• The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama" takes place in 2013, in which the United States is in the midst of Gulf War V.