WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 2013
Find out what all happened January to October 2013

More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. (3. April 2013)

At least 46 people are killed by a pair of car bombs in Reyhanlı, Turkey. (11. May 2013)

The Liberal Party of Australia led by Tony Abbott win the Australian federal election, 2013. (7. September 2013)

5 people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. (28. October 2013)

19 firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona. (30. June 2013)

A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing 10 people. (7. July 2013)

A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a dozen. (19. August 2013)

Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. (13. March 2013)

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others. (2. July 2013)

6 people are killed and 200 injured in a passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. (12. July 2013)

The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public. (1. February 2013)

Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. (16. October 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. (28. February 2013)

2013 Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after 4 days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president. (3. July 2013)

The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. (18. July 2013)

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people. (24. September 2013)

A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people. (29. April 2013)

Philippe of Belgium becomes King of the Belgians (21. July 2013)

At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (1. January 2013)

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. (27. June 2013)