What will happen in 2023? A calendar of the year

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JANUARY

1 January

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sworn in as president of Brazil

Japan takes over G7 presidency

Croatia adopts the euro as its currency

Sweden assumes European Council presidency

3 January

First of five consecutive days of strike action on British railways

10 January

Golden Globes ceremony. Check out the full list of nominations here

Duke of Sussex memoir, Spare, published

13-14 January

Czech presidential elections. Billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babiš, accused of various conflicts of interest, is a candidate

16-23 January

Davos World Economic Forum

16-29 January

Australian Tennis Open. Former winner Novak Djokovic, who missed last year’s event because he refuses to have a Covid vaccine, will be able to play this year

22 January

Fiftieth anniversary of Roe v Wade. The supreme court ruling was overturned in June 2022

23-26 January

Paris haute couture fashion week

24 January

Oscars nominations

25 January

Burns Night

27 January

Holocaust Memorial Day

January undated

Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, tentatively scheduled to visit China

FEBRUARY

BTS perform at the Grammy awards in Las Vegas in April 2022.

1 February

US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate decision of the year. The Fed hiked rates seven times in 2022 to the highest level for 15 years

Twentieth anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia exploding on re-entry

2 February

Bank of England decides whether to increase interest rates again after doing so nine times last year

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1-28 February

LGBT+ history month

4 February-18 March

Six Nations rugby tournament

5 February

Grammy awards

G7 price cap/EU ban on Russian oil products. The cap is aimed at limiting the amount of petrodollars that can underpin Vladimir Putin’s war

9 February

Salman Rushdie’s novel Victory City published, his first work since he was attacked in the US in August

10 February- 4 June

Huge Vermeer retrospective opens at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

10-26 February

ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa

11 February

Iranian president address to mark 1979 revolution anniversary. The regime has been trying to quell some of the most serious protests ever seen in the Islamic republic.

11 February

The Brit awards

12 February

American football Super Bowl

30 years since the murder of James Bulger

16 February

One hundred years since Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo scheduled to open.

17-25 February

Rio carnival

19 February

Bafta awards

24 February

First anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine

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25 February

Nigeria presidential election

MARCH

8 March

International Women’s Day

9-12 March

Crufts dog show

12 March

The Oscars

14-17 March
Cheltenham festival

20 March

Twenty years since the Iraq war

26 March

Oxford and Cambridge boat race

March undated

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies public benefit corporation is expected to publish phase 3 results of MDMA for PTSD by the end of March.If positive, the results would be a crucial step towards the US Food and Drug Administration approving the drug as a treatment.

31 March

The titanosaur, the largest known creature ever to have walked our planet, goes on show at the National History Museum

APRIL

Pablo Picasso poses in his Paris studio.

1 April

Fifty years since VAT introduced

6-9 April

Masters Golf in Augusta

8 April

Fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death to be commemorated with events around the world

10 April

Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday agreement

13-15 April

Grand National festival at Aintree, Liverpool

15 April-1 May

World snooker championship in Sheffield

22 April

Stephen Lawrence Day: 30 years since his death

Earth Day

23 April

London marathon

April undated

India’s population is predicted to overtake China’s

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The European Space Agency plans to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which will explore the planet and its large ice-covered moons after an eight-year transit

Launch of Eris, the first Australian-made rocket

MAY

Visitors look at a display of roses in the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea flower show in London.

2 May

EU Digital Markets Act goes live – a set of new rules intended to curb the dominance of big tech companies

3 May

World Press Freedom Day

4 May

UK local elections

6 May

Coronation of King Charles

13 May

Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool

14 May

Women’s FA Cup final

Israel marks 75th anniversary

16-27 May

Cannes film festival

18-21 May

US PGA golf

19-21 May

G7 Summit in Japan

23-27 May

Chelsea flower show

25 May-4 June

Hay festival of literature and arts

May undated

Possibly Covid-19 inquiry hearings. More than 200 scientists have been asked to give evidence about the effectiveness of the UK response to the pandemic

JUNE

3 June

Men’s FA Cup final

15-18 June

Isle of Wight festival

16 June-31 July

Men’s Ashes

18 June

Turkish presidential election

20-24 June

Royal Ascot

21-25 June

Glastonbury music festival

22-25 June

Royal Highland show

22 June-18 July

Women’s Ashes

Seventy-five years since Windrush passengers arrived in UK

29 June-16 July

Manchester international festival

June undated
Worldwide Developers Conference, hosted by Apple. Possible launch of Apple AR headset

JULY

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic falls during a match at Wimbledon last year.

1 July

Spain assumes European Council presidency

1-23 July

Tour de France

2 July

London Pride

3-16 July

Wimbledon tennis championships

5 July

Seventy-five years since NHS established

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7-9 July

Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone

15 July-10 September

BBC Proms

16-23 July

UK Golf Open at St Andrews

20 July-20 August

Fifa Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

27 July

North and South Korea to observe 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean war

AUGUST

Performers at the Notting Hill carnival in London.

4-27 August

Edinburgh festival

19-27 August

World Athletics Championships in Budapest

27-28 August

Notting Hill carnival

28 August-10 September

US Tennis Open

SEPTEMBER

A Mulberry handbag at London fashion week.

8 September-28 October

Rugby World Cup

9-10 September

G20 summit in India

12-30 September

Seventy-eighth session of the UN general assembly in New York

10 September

Great North Run

15-19 September

London fashion week

OCTOBER

A still taken from a new animated short cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Considered to be the predecessor of Mickey Mouse, the character was created by Walt Disney for Universal and debuted in 1927.

16 October

Walt Disney 100th anniversary

20 October

Sydney Opera House 50th anniversary

25 October-26 November

Cricket World Cup in India

29 October

Argentina elections

A hundred years since Turkey was founded

October undated

BFI London film festival

Nobel prize announcements

Booker prize

Nasa plans to launch the Psyche spacecraft, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche