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2012–13 NHL season
2012–13 NHL season: lockout-shortened 48-game NHL season (113-day owner lockout, Sept 15–Jan 12, 2013) under a new 10-year CBA; Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, beating Boston 4-2.
2012–13 Premier League
2012–13 Premier League, the 21st season of England's top division: Manchester United won a 13th Premier League title under Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired after 26 years; Robin van Persie won the Golden Boot with 26 goals.
2012–13 Real Madrid CF season
2012-13 Real Madrid CF season: José Mourinho's final year. Won the Supercopa de España, finished 2nd in La Liga with 85 points (26-7-5, 103:42), lost the Copa del Rey final to Atlético, and fell to Dortmund in the Champions League semi-finals.
2012–13 UEFA Champions League
2012-13 UEFA Champions League, won by Bayern München 2-1 over Borussia Dortmund in the first all-German final at Wembley on 25 May 2013, Robben scoring an 89th-minute winner; Bayern's fifth European Cup.
2012–13 UEFA Europa League
2012–13 UEFA Europa League, 42nd season of Europe's secondary club competition, fourth under the Europa League name. Chelsea beat Benfica 2-1 in the Amsterdam ArenA final on 15 May 2013 via Ivanović's added-time header.
2012–2014 Madagascar locust plague
The 2012–2014 Madagascar locust plague was a Malagasy Migratory Locust outbreak, the worst since the 1950s, that threatened the food security of 13 million people.
2012: Doomsday
2012: Doomsday is a 2008 direct-to-video disaster film by The Asylum, directed by Nick Everhart, starring Cliff DeYoung, Dale Midkiff, and Ami Dolenz; a mockbuster about four strangers at a Mexican temple on the Mayan calendar's supposed end date.
2013
2013, the common calendar year: Pope Benedict XVI resigned and Francis became the first Latin American pope, Snowden leaked NSA files, Rana Plaza collapsed killing 1,129, Mandela and Thatcher died, and Andy Murray won Wimbledon for Britain.
2013 AFL draft
2013 AFL draft (2013 NAB AFL Draft), national player draft held on the Gold Coast, November 21, 2013. GWS took Tom Boyd and Josh Kelly with picks 1 and 2; Adelaide and Essendon were pick-sanctioned; Cripps and Bontempelli became stars.
2013 Africa Cup of Nations
2013 Africa Cup of Nations: 29th AFCON, relocated from Libya to South Africa and switched to odd years; Nigeria beat Burkina Faso 1-0 in the final for a third title.
2013 Ashes series
2013 Ashes series: five-Test England v Australia contest in England, July-August 2013. England, captained by Alastair Cook, won 3-0 to retain the Ashes, with Anderson's 10-158 at Trent Bridge and Broad's 6-20 at Durham decisive.
2013 Australian federal election
The 2013 Australian federal election, held 7 September 2013, gave Tony Abbott's Liberal/National Coalition 90 of 150 House seats over Labor, ended the 2010–13 hung parliament, and produced a crossbench-heavy Senate including the new Palmer United Party.
2013 Awaran earthquake
The 2013 Awaran earthquake, also called the 2013 Balochistan earthquake, was a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Awaran in Balochistan, Pakistan, on 24 September 2013.
2013 BCS National Championship Game
The 2013 BCS National Championship Game, also called the Discover BCS National Championship Game, was played January 7, 2013 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens; No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 Notre Dame 42-14 for the 2012 college football national title.
2013 Billboard Music Awards
The 2013 Billboard Music Awards, held May 19, 2013 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC, honored chart performance; Taylor Swift won eight awards including Top Artist, Justin Bieber was booed accepting the first Milestone Award, and Prince received the Icon Award.
2013 Bohol earthquake
The 2013 Bohol earthquake, locally called the Great Bohol Earthquake, was a magnitude 7.2 quake that struck Bohol in the central Philippines on October 15, 2013.
2013 Brazilian protests
The 2013 Brazilian protests, or Jornadas de Junho, were nationwide demonstrations beginning in São Paulo in June 2013 over bus fares, corruption, and public services.
2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup
2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 12th edition, played July 7-28, 2013 in the United States; the USA won its fifth title, beating Panama 1-0 in the final at Soldier Field on Brek Shea's 69th-minute goal.
2013 Dakar Rally
2013 Dakar Rally, held 5–20 January 2013, Lima to Santiago via Peru, Argentina, Chile; 8,000 km. Winners: Despres (bikes), Peterhansel (cars), M. Patronelli (quads), Nikolaev (trucks); 299 of 449 vehicles finished.
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election (4 December 2013): hung 70-seat assembly vote ending 15 years of Congress rule; debut AAP won 28 seats, Congress fell to 8, Kejriwal beat Sheila Dikshit, and a 49-day minority AAP government followed.
2013 Denver Broncos season
2013 Denver Broncos season: 13-3, AFC West champions, NFL-record 606 points and Peyton Manning's 5,477 yards and 55 TDs, ending in a 43-8 Super Bowl XLVIII loss to Seattle.
2013 Egyptian coup d'état
2013 Egyptian coup d'état: the July 3, 2013 military removal of President Mohamed Morsi led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after June 30 mass protests, followed by the Rab'a massacre and Sisi's 2014 presidency; also called the June 30 revolution by the Egyptian state.
2013 El Reno tornado
The 2013 El Reno tornado, a multiple-vortex tornado near Oklahoma City on May 31, 2013, was the widest tornado on record in the United States at 2.6 miles.
2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum
The 2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum, held 10-11 March 2013, asked voters whether to retain British Overseas Territory status; 99.8% voted Yes (1,513 to 3) on 92% turnout of a 1,650-strong electorate. Argentina rejected the result; the UK called it definitive self-determination.
2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or
2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or, won by Cristiano Ronaldo (1,365 points, 27.99%) over Messi and treble-winner Ribéry; voting deadline extended after Ronaldo's Sweden play-off, making it the merged era's most contested award.
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, held in Brazil 15-30 June 2013 as the 2014 World Cup rehearsal; hosts Brazil beat Spain 3-0 in the Maracanã final for a third straight title, amid massive June 2013 protests and the first FIFA use of goal-line technology.
2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup, held in Turkey 21 June to 13 July 2013; France won its first U-20 title, beating Uruguay 4-1 on penalties in Istanbul, with Paul Pogba winning the Golden Ball; Brazil and Argentina both failed to qualify.
2013 Florida State Seminoles football team
2013 Florida State Seminoles football team, Jimbo Fisher's undefeated 14-0 ACC and BCS national champion squad; Jameis Winston won the Heisman, FSU beat Auburn 34-31 in the final BCS title game and ranked No. 1 in the final AP poll.
2013 Formula One World Championship
2013 Formula One World Championship: 19-race F1 season won by Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull, 397 points, 13 wins, nine straight) and Red Bull (596); marked by Pirelli tyre failures, mid-season tyre change, Multi-21, and Mercedes tyre test.
2013 German federal election
2013 German federal election (Bundestagswahl 2013), 22 September 2013: Merkel's CDU/CSU won 41.5%, FDP fell below 5% for the first time, AfD debuted at 4.7%, leading to a CDU/CSU-SPD grand coalition.