What Happened in 2023
79 historical events, 0 notable births, and 28 notable deaths in 2023.
Major Events
January 2023
2023 — calendar year
Sudanese civil war — ongoing military conflict in Sudan since 2023
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup — 9th FIFA Women's World Cup
2023 Formula One World Championship — 74th Formula One season
2022 Asian Games — 19th edition of Asian Games
deaths in 2023 — list of notable deaths in 2023
2023 Chinese balloon incident — 2023 diplomatic incident involving a Chinese balloon in Canadian and U.S. airspace
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup — 2023 edition of the men's FIBA Basketball World Cup
2023 World Athletics Championships — 2023 edition of the World Championships in Athletics
2023 Men's Cricket World Cup — 13th edition of the premier international cricket competition
2023 Brazilian Congress attack — storming of government buildings in Brasília
Yeti Airlines Flight 691 — 15 January 2023 aircraft crash
2022–23 UEFA Nations League — international football competition
2023 in film — overview of the events of 2023 in film
2022 FIFA Club World Cup — 19th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup
January 2023 — month of 2023
Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics — sporting event delegation
2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup — international football competition
2023 World Aquatics Championships — 20th World Aquatics Championships
2023 World Men's Handball Championship — 28th event hosted by the International Handball Federation
2023 Peshawar mosque bombing — January 2023 suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2023 Australian Open — 2023 edition of the Australian Open
80th Golden Globe Awards — 2023 film and television award ceremony, on the 10th of January in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 2022 filmmaking and televisionmaking
World Chess Championship 2023 — chess championship match
2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup — 17th Edition of CONCACAF Gold Cup
2023 French Open — tennis tournament
2023 World Women's Handball Championship — 2023 edition of the World Women's Handball Championship
2023 European Games — 3rd edition of the European Games
2023 US Open — 2023 edition of the United States Open Tennis Championships
2023 Wimbledon Championships — 136th edition of the Wimbledon Championships
February 2023
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes — The earthquake that caused destruction in Türkiye and Syria on February 6, 2023
Tempi train crash — collision of two trains in Greece, 28 February 2023
February 2023 — month of 2023
June 2023
Wagner Group rebellion — 2023 uprising in Russia led by Yevgeny Prigozhin
Titan submersible implosion — 2023 submersible implosion in the North Atlantic Ocean
2023 Odisha train collision — train collision in Balasore, Odisha, India, on 2 June 2023
2023 UEFA Champions League Final — The final match of the 2022–23 edition of the UEFA Champions League
destruction of the Kakhovka Dam — 6 June 2023 event on the Dnieper River during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
June 2023 — month of 2023
killing of Nahel Merzouk — 27 June 2023 killing by police in France
Nahel Merzouk protests — riots in France and other countries after the death of Nahel Merzouk
2023 UEFA Europa Conference League Final — football match
May 2023
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 — 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest
coronation of Charles III and Camilla — initiation rite to crown King Charles III
Google I/O — computer software and hardware developer conference hosted by Google
2023 Turkish presidential election — 22nd Turkish presidential election
May 2023 — month of 2023
Belgrade school shooting — school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia
September 2023
2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake — 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco
Storm Daniel — 2023 storm in the Mediterranean Sea
2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh — 2023 military offensive against the self-declared breakaway state of Artsakh
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification — international football competition
September 2023 — month of 2023
2023 G20 New Delhi summit — 18th G20 summit
October 2023
October 7 attacks — terrorist attack and massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 carried out by the Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist Group Hamas
Re'im music festival massacre — massacre of Israeli civilians at a dance party near Re'im, Israel on 7 October 2023
2023 Herat earthquakes — 7 October 2023 earthquakes in western Afghanistan
October 2023 — month of 2023
al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion — 17 October 2023 explosion in Gaza
2023 Polish parliamentary election — general election for the 10th term Sejm and 11th term Senate of Poland
March 2023
95th Academy Awards — film award ceremony
March 2023 — month of 2023
August 2023
2023 Wagner Group plane crash — 23 August 2023 accident involving the private jet of Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia
2023 Gabon coup d'état — military coup in Gabon on 30 August 2023
2023 UEFA Super Cup — 49th edition of the UEFA Super Cup
2023 Hawaii wildfires — 2023 wildfires in the state of Hawaii
August 2023 — month of 2023
80 Albert Street Fire — deadly blaze in Johannesburg, South Africa
July 2023
2023 Nigerien coup d'état — military coup against President Mohamed Bazoum
July 2023 — month of 2023
2023 British Grand Prix — Formula One motor race
2023 Spanish general election — vote for the 15th Cortes Generales
December 2023
2023 Prague shooting — school shooting in the Czech Republic
December 2023 — month of 2023
November 2023
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 — 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest edition
November 2023 — month of 2023
2023 Dutch general election — election in the Netherlands
Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 — article contest on Wikipedia
April 2023
April 2023 — month of 2023