January
January 1 - Croatia begins to adopt the euro and joins the Schengen Area.
Lula da Silva is sworn in as President of Brazil.
January 6 - The start of the twenty-fifth edition of the Arab Gulf Cup Football Championship in the city of Basra, southern Iraq.
January 8 - Crowds storm Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and a presidential palace in Brazil to protest the results of the presidential elections.
January 10 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes near the shores of the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia.
January 15 – A plane crashes in Pokhara, Nepal, killing 68 people.
January 19 - The Iraqi national team was crowned Gulf Champion 25 for the fourth time, after winning the final match against the Omani national team.
January 20: The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago elects former Senate President, Minister and lawyer Christine Kangaloo as President by a vote of 48-22.
January 21 – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation by February 7, choosing Chris Hepkins as her successor.
January 21 - 12 people are killed and 9 injured in a mass shooting in Monterey Park in the United States, during a celebration of the Chinese New Year.
January 26 - 10 people, including a woman, were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli invasion of the city and camp of Jenin in the West Bank.
January 30 - More than 100 people are killed and more than 200 wounded in a suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Feb
1 February – Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) reaches its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.28 AU (42 million km), visible to the naked eye.
February 3: Chile extends a state of emergency over wildfires that have burned up to 8,000 hectares, killed at least 24 people and injured 1,100, and also declares a disaster in Bío-Bío province amid a summer heat wave.
February 4 - US-China relations are strained after the United States shoots down a Chinese balloon, allegedly for espionage purposes.
February 5: Cypriot presidential elections 2023.
February 5, Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan, dies at the age of 79
February 6 - More than 5,000 people were killed and more than 24,700 injured, when two earthquakes, the largest of which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, occurred in southern Turkey and spread to Syria.
25 February - 2023 Nigerian General Elections.
March
April
April 2 - 2023 Finnish parliamentary elections.
May
May 9 - May 13 - Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, UK.
May 20 - The start of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023.
June
June 16 - The 2023 AFC Asian Cup kicks off.
June 18 - Turkish general election 2023.
July
July 10 - The 2023 Women's World Cup kicks off.
August
August 19 - 2023 World Championships in Athletics begins.
August 25 - The start of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
September
October
October 12 - Pakistani legislative elections 2023.
October 29 - the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
November
November - Dubai Climate Change Conference 2023.
December
December 10 - Spanish general election 2023.
