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2023

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Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting recorded tropical cyclone in history in the Indian Ocean, which led to over 1,400 deaths in Malawi and Mozambique; Storm Daniel, which became the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide since Typhoon Haiyan after killing at least 5,300 people in Libya; a major 6.8 magnitude earthquake striking western Morocco, killing 2,960 people; and a 6.3 magnitude quadruple earthquake striking western Afghanistan, killing over 1,400 people. The year also saw a decline in the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the WHO (World Health Organization) ending its global health emergency status in May.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Myanmar civil war continued in 2023, and a series of coups, several armed conflicts, and political crises broke out in numerous African nations, most notably a Sudanese civil war. In Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ended after over 100,000 Armenians fled the region after an Azeri military invasion. In India, the year marked the beginning of the ethnic violence in the state of Manipur between the Kuki and the Meitei people. A major escalation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict occurred in October when Hamas, the governing body of the Gaza Strip, led a major attack on Israel, leading the latter to both declare war on Hamas and invade the Gaza Strip; the Israeli aerial bombardment campaign killed 20,000 Palestinians within two months and caused a humanitarian crisis, leading to allegations of genocide that formed the basis of an ICJ case brought by South Africa that December.

A banking crisis resulted in the collapse of numerous American regional banks as well as the buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS in Switzerland. The two largest American banks to collapse were Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank, two of the three largest banking collapses in US history. The most notable of numerous acquisitions in various industries included October's energy acquisitions with ExxonMobil and Chevron buying Pioneer Natural Resources and Hess respectively, the luxury fashion holding company Tapestry (Coach New York and Kate Spade New York) announcing its purchase of Capri Holdings (Michael Kors and Versace), and the closure of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In the realm of technology, 2023 saw the continued rise of generative AI models, with increasing applications across various industries. These models, leveraging advancements in machine learning and natural language processing, had become capable of creating realistic and coherent text, music, and images.

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JanuaryEdit

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Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI

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FebruaryEdit

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Cyclone Freddy near Madagascar

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MarchEdit

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Võ Văn Thưởng becomes the new president of Vietnam

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Xi Jinping is re-elected as the president of the People's Republic of China

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AprilEdit

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Finland joins NATO as the 31st member

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MayEdit

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Charles III and Camilla are crowned as King and Queen of the United Kingdom

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is re-elected as president of Turkey

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JuneEdit

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A train collision kills 296 people in Odisha, India
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Aftermath of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

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JulyEdit

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SAG-AFTRA members picketing during the strike as part of the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes
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Aereal view of the fires on the Greek island of Rhodes

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ECOWAS after the 2023 Niger coup

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AugustEdit

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Burned building after the 2023 Hawaii wildfires

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Wildfire near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada

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SeptemberEdit

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2023 Al Haouz earthquake
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Storm Daniel near Libya

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  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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OctoberEdit

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  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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NovemberEdit

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Javier Milei wins the 2023 Argentine presidential election

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  • November 22
    • Israel and Hamas agree to a four-day ceasefire, the first pause in fighting since 7 October, during which many Israeli hostages will be released, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • November 30 – Brazil announces it will join OPEC+ at a meeting of the organization to discuss oil output strategy in 2024.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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DecemberEdit

  • December 3 – 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis: Venezuela votes in a symbolic referendum on whether voters agreed with creating a subdivision in the disputed territory of Guayana Esequiba currently under the control of neighboring Guyana. Analysts say the referendum's practical implications are likely to be minimal.<ref name=":4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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    • The deadliest mass shooting in the Czech Republic's history occurs at a Prague university, with 15 killed, including the perpetrator, and 25 others wounded.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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DemographicsEdit

The world population on January 1, 2023 was estimated at 7.943 billion people,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was expected to increase to 8.119 billion on January 1, 2024.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> An estimated 134.3 million births and 60.8 million deaths were expected to take place in 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The average global life expectancy was 73.16 years,<ref name="World Life Expectancy 1950-2022 | MacroTrends">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an increase of 0.18 years from 2022.<ref name="World Life Expectancy 1950-2022 | MacroTrends" /> The rate of child mortality was 36.7 per 1000 live births, a decrease from 38.2 in 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Less than 23% of people were living in extreme poverty (on or below the international poverty line), a decrease from 2022. In April, India surpassed China as the most populated country in the world.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Best-selling mediaEdit

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  • The best-selling book in the United States in 2023 was It Ends with Us, which was published in 2016. Of the books to be published in 2023, Spare was the best-selling in America.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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BirthsEdit

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DeathsEdit

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Nobel PrizesEdit

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  • Literature – Jon Fosse, for his innovative plays, prose and style, which has come to be known as Fosse minimalism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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ReferencesEdit

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