2013

Events

• January 3 - Turkey begins peace negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
  • Keith Ratliff is found dead in his home, the investigation is ongoing.
• January 14 - The Jakarta Attacks happened in Thamrin, killing 4 civilians and destroyed a burger king restaurant.
• February 2 - Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield are killed by Eddie Ray Routh.
• February 25 - Park Geun-Hye is elected President of South Korea.
• March 3 - Bailey O'Neill was murdered by two boys, the two bullies who killed Bailey became hated and possibly doxxed for their actions.
• March 5 - Nicolás Maduro is named President of Venezuela following the death of Hugo Chávez.
• April 1 - RENAMO resumes hostilities against the government of Mozambique with a series of armed clashes in various provinces.
• April 8 - Al-Qaeda in Iraq is reorganized into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after capturing the Syrian town of Raqqa from Al-Nusra Front.
• April 15 - Boston Marathon bombing: 3 people are killed and hundreds more are seriously injured.
• May 27 to August 20 - 2013 Turkey Protests
• June 30 - Hissène Habré is arrested in Senegal.
• July 3 - Mohamed Morsi is deposed as President of Egypt in a military coup lead by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
• July 13 - George Zimmerman is found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on the grounds that he was acting in self-defense.
• August 3 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran.
• August 14 - Egyptian Army forces under command of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi raid two camps of pro-Morsi/Muslim Brotherhood activists in Cairo, killing over one thousand people.
• August 21 - Hosni Mubarak's life sentence is overturned.
• September 16 - Washington Navy Yard shooting
• September 21 - Al-Shabaab attacks Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 71 people and injuring over 200 others.
• October 22 - Ross William Ulbricht is arrested at Glen Park Library in San Francisco. Silk Road is promptly seized and shut down by the FBI.
• December 15 - Beginning of the South Sudanese Civil War.
• Unknown - National Action is founded.

Births

Victim births

• June 13 - Faye Marie Swetlik

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 16 - Aslan Usoyan
• February 17 - Mindy McCready
• February 21 - Kaoru Kobayashi
• February 26 - Debra Denison
• March 5 - Hugo Chávez
• March 14 - Ieng Sary
• April 19 - Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• April 23 - Mohammed Omar
• May 17 - Jorge Rafael Videla
• June 7 - Richard Ramirez
• August 27 - Anatoly Onoprienko
• September 3 - Ariel Castro
• September 16 - Chin Peng & Aaron Alexis
• October 11 - Erich Priebke
• November 20 - Joseph Paul Franklin
• December 8 - Ronnie Biggs
• December 12 - Abdul Quader Molla
• December 19 - José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo

Victim deaths

• January 3 - Keith Ratliff
• January 31 - Sasha Marsden
• March 3 - Bailey O'Neill
• February 2 - Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield
• February 26 - Alton and Ashton Perry
• May 22 - Gabriel Fernandez
• July 24 - Bianca McGaughey