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May 31 – The 2023 Latvian presidential election is held; Edgars Rinkēvičs is elected the President of Latvia.[137] |
A train collision kills 296 people in Odisha, India |
Aftermath of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam |
June 2 – A train collision in Odisha, India results in at least 296 deaths and more than 1,200 others injured.[138] |
The 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election is held; the coalition Inclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, wins a majority of seats.[139] |
The 2023 Kuwaiti general election is held;[140] following the annulment of the results of the 2022 snap elections by the Constitutional Court.[141] 38 members retained their seats from the annulled 2022 session, while two returned from the dissolved 2020 session. Ten new MPs were elected for the first time.[142] |
Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled region of Kherson is destroyed, threatening the region with devastating floodwaters.[143][144] |
Due to smoke from wildfires in Canada, New York City in the United States is declared to have the worst air quality out of any city in the world.[145] |
June 11 – Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March.[146] |
June 12 – Eritrea rejoins the Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc after suspending its membership in 2007.[147] |
June 13 – At least 106 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.[148] |
Scientists report the creation of the first synthetic human embryo from stem cells, without the need for sperm or egg cells.[149] |
At least 82 people die and 500 are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of the Peloponnese.[150] |
June 18 – Titan submersible implosion: All five crew members of Titan, a deep-sea submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic, are killed following a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.[151] |
The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the High Seas Treaty, the first treaty aimed towards marine conservation in international waters.[152] |
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations after relations were suspended during the Qatar diplomatic crisis.[153] |
June 20 – At least 46 people are killed after a riot between MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.[154] |
June 23 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.[155] |
June 25 – The June 2023 Greek legislative election is held; Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes prime minister after his centre-right party, New Democracy, wins a majority of seats in the Greek parliament.[156] |
June 28 – The 2023 Sierra Leonean general election is held; Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party is re-elected president.[157] |
June 30 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to end MINUSMA, its peacekeeping mission in Mali.[158] |
Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to increasing sanctions against Russia.[159] |
In the largest incursion by Israel into the West Bank since the Second Intifada, the Israeli military deploys ground forces and armed drones into the Jenin camp, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100. An attack claimed by Hamas as retaliation for the incursion, occurs in Tel Aviv the following day, injuring nine.[160][161] |
July 4 – Iran joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, becoming the organization's ninth member.[162] |
July 8 – In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.[163] |
The 2023 Uzbek presidential election is held; Shavkat Mirziyoyev is re-elected president of Uzbekistan.[164] |
New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, increasing bilateral trade.[165] |
China and the Solomon Islands sign a cooperation agreement between the People's Police and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force in an upgrade of bilateral relations.[166] |
The European Commission and the U.S. government sign a new data communication agreement aimed at resolving legal uncertainties that European and American companies face when transferring personal data.[167] |
July 13 – Pita Limjaroenrat fails to become Prime Minister of Thailand in a National Assembly vote after forming a coalition with pro-democracy parties following the 2023 Thai general election.[168] |
SAG-AFTRA members picketing during the strike as part of the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes |
July 14 – SAG-AFTRA announces it will begin a strike against the major film and TV studios in protest of low compensation, ownership of work, and generative AI.[169] |
July 19 – Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia.[170] |
July 20–August 20 – The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in Australia and New Zealand. In the final, Spain wins 1–0 against England.[171] |
July 20 – Bolivia and Iran sign a memorandum of understanding, in an upgrade of bilateral relations, expanding cooperation in the security and defense sectors.[172] |
July 21 – The films Barbie and Oppenheimer open, while being paired as a major internet and cultural event, Barbenheimer.[173][174] |
Aereal view of the fires on the Greek island of Rhodes |
2023 Greece wildfires: Tens of thousands of tourists flee Rhodes, Greece, amid wildfires and a major heatwave, in what officials say is the largest evacuation in the country's history.[175][176] |
Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the second consecutive time.[177] |
The 2023 Cambodian general election is held, with the dominant Cambodian People's Party retaining control of every seat in the National Assembly.[178][179] |
The 2023 Spanish general election is held, with the People's Party becoming the largest party in the Congress of Deputies.[180] |
ECOWAS after the 2023 Niger coup |
July 26 – President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger is toppled in a coup d'état after members of his presidential guard and the armed forces seize control of the country and install General Abdourahamane Tchiani as leader of a military junta.[181][182] |
July 30 – 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.[183] |
August 1 – Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 °C (69.73 °F), exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (0.3 °C (32.5 °F)).[184][185][186] |
The joint venture Centura Health split up as AdventHealth and CommonSpirit Health parted ways.[187][188] |
Burned building after the 2023 Hawaii wildfires |
August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.[189] |
August 10 – Tapestry, the holding company of Coach New York and Kate Spade, announces it will acquire Michael Kors' Capri Holdings, which also owns Versace and Jimmy Choo.[190] |
August 16–21 – Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 Pacific Hurricane, strikes the Baja California peninsula and later causes record flooding in Southern California.[191] |
August 18 – American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact: The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact.[192] |
August 20 – 2023 Guatemalan presidential election: After two rounds of voting, Bernardo Arévalo of Semilla is elected with 58% of the vote.[193][194] |
Wildfire near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada |
2023 Canadian wildfires: 68% of the Northwest Territories are forced to evacuate to other parts of the country due to wildfires.[195] |
Saudi Arabia is accused of mass killing hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with Yemen.[196][197] |
August 22 – Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand after 15 years of political exile.[198] |
India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first spacecraft to land near the south pole of the Moon, carrying a lunar lander named Vikram and a lunar rover named Pragyan.[199] |
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder Dmitry Utkin and eight others[200][201] are killed when their plane crashes in Russia.[202] |
August 30 – Following the announcement of incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection as President of Gabon after the 2023 presidential election, the military launches a successful coup d'état and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power.[203] |
August 31 – 2023 Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.[204][205] |
2023 Al Haouz earthquake |
Storm Daniel near Libya |
September 1 – 2023 Singaporean presidential election: Economist and former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected president with a vote share of over 70%.[206] |
September 2 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1, India's first solar observation mission.[207] |
September 8 – October 28 – The 2023 Rugby World Cup is held in France. South Africa beat New Zealand 12–11 in the final at the Stade de France, claiming their 4th Rugby World Cup title.[208] |
September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh–Safi earthquake: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Marrakesh–Safi province in western Morocco, killing at least 2,960 people and damaging historic buildings.[209] |
September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20.[210] |
September 10 – Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, kills at least 5,000 people, with a further 10,000 to 100,000 reported missing. In the city of Derna in Libya, two dams collapse, resulting in a quarter of the city being destroyed.[211] |
September 14 – The European Central Bank (ECB) raises eurozone interest rates to an all-time high of 4%, amid ongoing inflationary pressures across the continent.[212] |
September 19 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh, which ends with a swift Azerbaijani victory.[213] Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.[214][215] |
September 20 – Archaeologists in Zambia find the world's oldest wooden structure, dating back 476,000 years, consisting of two interlocking wooden logs connected by a notch securing one perpendicular to the other.[216] |
September 21 – Rupert Murdoch announces his retirement and passes his businesses on to his son Lachlan. Murdoch led News Corp and Fox, and formerly Sky Group.[217][218] |
September 24 – 2023 Nigerien crisis: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will recall its ambassador from the country.[219] |
September 25 – An estimated 170 people are killed and over 300 are injured during an explosion at a gas station in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh.[220] |
September 30 – 2023 Slovak parliamentary election: Smer, under the leadership of former prime minister Robert Fico, wins a plurality of seats in the National Council.[221][222] |
Elected on January 8,[223] Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives,[224] with Mike Johnson being elected new Speaker on October 25.[225] |
Sam Bankman-Fried, an American entrepreneur and founder of cryptocurrency exchange company FTX, is put on trial and later convicted on 7 charges of fraud and conspiracy. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison on March 28, 2024.[226] |
October 5 – November 19 – The 2023 Cricket World Cup is held in India, with Australia defeating India in the final.[227] |
Gaza war: Hamas launches an incursion into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and taking about 240 hostages,[228] prompting a military response from the Israel Defense Forces.[229] Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon after rockets are fired by Hezbollah and further attempts are made to penetrate Israel.[230] |
A series of earthquakes occur in Herat Province in Afghanistan, killing over 1,000 people and injuring nearly 2,000, with tremors felt in Iran and Turkmenistan. The earthquakes are the deadliest in the country since 1998.[231] |
October 8 – Israel's Security Cabinet formally declares war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.[232] |
October 11 – ExxonMobil announces it will acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for $65 billion USD, the first of two major energy industry acquisitions of the month. The second occurs less than two weeks later on 23 October, where Hess announces it will be acquired by Chevron for $50 billion.[233][234] |
October 13 – After British regulators' approval, Microsoft closes its $68.7 billion USD acquisition of Activision Blizzard.[235] |
2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum: A majority of Australians vote against establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the constitution.[236][237] |
2023 New Zealand general election: The National Party wins a plurality of seats under leader Christopher Luxon, while the Labour Party suffers the worst result for an incumbent ruling party in modern New Zealand history.[238] |
In the second round of the 2023 Ecuadorian general election, Daniel Noboa of the National Democratic Action is elected as the youngest-ever President of Ecuador.[239] |
2023 Polish parliamentary election: The Law and Justice party wins the most seats, but loses its majority,[240][241] with its incumbent president Mateusz Morawiecki being succeeded by the Civic Platform party's Donald Tusk on 13 December.[242] |
Donald Tusk is elected as the Polish prime minister |
October 17 – An explosion occurs at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where displaced Palestinians are taking refuge. Many fatalities are reported, but estimates vary significantly, from 100 to as many as 471, depending on the source.[243] |
October 22 – 2023 Swiss federal election: The Swiss People's Party retains its majority in the National Council.[244] |
October 25 – Hurricane Otis, an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Mexico near Acapulco, leaving at least 80 dead. It is the most powerful Eastern Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico, with the highest winds reaching 165 mph, surpassing Hurricane Patricia's landfall in 2015.[245] |
October 31 – Israel intercepted a Yemeni Houthi ballistic missile with its Arrow 2 missile defense system. The interception occurred above Earth's atmosphere above the Negev Desert, making it the first instance of space combat in history.[246][247] |
November 1 – The first AI Safety Summit takes place in the United Kingdom, with 28 countries signing a "world first agreement" on how to manage the riskiest forms of artificial intelligence.[248][249] |
November 2 – The Beatles release "Now and Then", the band's last ever song, featuring restored vocals by John Lennon (1940–1980), as well as guitar tracks by George Harrison (1943–2001).[250] |
November 6 – Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calls for a humanitarian ceasefire to increase the flow of aid to civilians.[251] |
November 7 – The Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announces his pending resignation.[252][253] The President of Portugal decides to dissolve the parliament and call for early elections to be held on 10 March 2024.[254] |
November 9 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.[255] |
November 10 – In the Falepili Union treaty, Australia grants "special" freedom of movement and defence rights to Tuvaluans for residence and employment for climate reasons.[256] |
November 14–17 – President Biden hosts the APEC summit in San Francisco, which Chinese president Xi Jinping attends.[257] Both countries, at the conclusion of the summit, agree to re-open suspended channels of military communications and to cooperate in their fight against climate change.[258][259] |
November 17 – The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2 °C above the pre-industrial average for the first time in recorded history.[260] |
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