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===April=== * [[April 2]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopts the [[Arms Trade Treaty]] to regulate the international trade of [[conventional weapon]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|title=U.N. overwhelmingly approves global arms trade treaty|work=Reuters|author=Charbonneau, Louis|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2013|archive-date=February 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202001250/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arms-treaty-un-idUSBRE9310MN20130402|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[April 13]] – [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election|Venezuelan presidential election]]: [[Nicolás Maduro]] is declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent [[Henrique Capriles Radonski]].<ref name="BBC19April">{{cite web|date=19 April 2013|title=Venezuela election vote to be audited|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|access-date=19 April 2013|publisher=BBC|archive-date=April 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420002730/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22215387|url-status=live}}</ref> [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests|Protests continue to October]].<ref>{{cite news|date=15 April 2013|title="Cacerolazo" contra Maduro ensordece a Venezuela|work=Diario Libre|publisher=Omnimedia|url=http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|access-date=March 9, 2021|archive-date=May 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504200332/http://www.diariolibre.com/internacionales/2013/04/15/i379410_cacerolazo-contra-maduro-ensordece-venezuela.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[April 15]] – [[Boston Marathon bombing]]: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the [[Boston Marathon]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in the United States, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|title=Terrorism strikes Boston Marathon as bombs kill 3, wound scores|publisher=CNN|author=Josh Levs and Monte Plott|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=April 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422145041/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|title=Injury toll from Marathon bombs reduced to 264|quote=It turns out that we had double-counted some patients who were transferred from 1 hospital to another, so we reviewed our spreadsheets and cleaned up the duplicates|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|last=Kotz|first=Deborah|date=April 24, 2013|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331141156/https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/23/number-injured-marathon-bombing-revised-downward/NRpaz5mmvGquP7KMA6XsIK/story.html|archive-date=March 31, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[April 20]] – A [[2013 Lushan earthquake|magnitude 6.6 earthquake]] jolts [[Sichuan]], [[China]], leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.<ref name="3rd press conference">{{cite web |url=http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |title=雅安地震共造成193人死亡21人失踪 |publisher=[[:zh:凤凰网|凤凰网资讯]] |date=April 21, 2013 |access-date=April 21, 2013 |archive-date=December 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224030028/http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/lushandizhen/content-3/detail_2013_04/21/24475808_0.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[April 21]] – Businessman [[Horacio Cartes]] wins the [[2013 Paraguayan general election]] against [[Efraín Alegre]]. * [[April 24]] – The [[2013 Savar building collapse]], one of the worst [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Structural collapses|industrial disasters]] in the world, kills 1,134 people in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|title=Action on Bangladesh|website=IndustriALL|access-date=June 11, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026065216/http://www.industriall-union.org/action-on-bangladesh|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2143075/five-years-nightmare-rana-plaza-what-changed-bangladesh|title=After Rana Plaza horror, what changed for Bangladesh garment workers?|date=April 24, 2018|website=South China Morning Post|access-date=February 24, 2021|archive-date=April 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424065719/https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2143075/five-years-nightmare-rana-plaza-what-changed-bangladesh|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[April 30]] – [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]] is [[Inauguration of the Dutch monarch|inaugurated]] as [[King of the Netherlands]] following the abdication of [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]].<ref name="royalhouse">{{cite web|title=Royal House of the Netherlands|url=https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|website=royal-house.nl|date=January 14, 2015|access-date=November 30, 2017|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017101613/https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander|url-status=live}}</ref>
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