1913

1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1913, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1910 1911 1912 – 1913 – 1914 1915 1916

1913 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1913 MCMXIII
Ab urbe condita	2666
Armenian calendar	1362 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	6663
Bahá'í calendar	69–70
Balinese saka calendar	1834–1835
Bengali calendar	1320
Berber calendar	2863
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 5 – 4 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2457
Burmese calendar	1275
Byzantine calendar	7421–7422
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4609 or 4549     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4610 or 4550
Coptic calendar	1629–1630
Discordian calendar	3079
Ethiopian calendar	1905–1906
Hebrew calendar	5673–5674
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1969–1970
- Shaka Samvat	1834–1835
- Kali Yuga	5013–5014
Holocene calendar	11913
Igbo calendar	913–914
Iranian calendar	1291–1292
Islamic calendar	1331–1332
Japanese calendar	Taishō 2 (大正２年)
Javanese calendar	1842–1843
Juche calendar	2
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4246
Minguo calendar	ROC 2 民國2年
Nanakshahi calendar	445
Thai solar calendar	2455–2456
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 2039 or 1658 or 886     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 2040 or 1659 or 887

Events

• First and Second Balkan Wars
• Mexican Revolution
• March 4 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States, succeeding William Howard Taft.
• March 12 - Building work begins on the new capital city of Canberra in Australia.
• May 29 - Rite of Spring performance in Paris.
• July 10 - A temperature of 134.1 °F (56.7 °C) is recorded in Death Valley, California.
• October 14 - The Senghenydd colliery disaster in Wales kills 439 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest mining tragedy.
• November 7 to November 11 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250 people. Nineteen ships are lost.
• December 12 - The Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence.
• George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat is launched in American newspapers

Births

January

Richard Nixon

Gustáv Husák

• January 9 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• January 10 – Gustáv Husák, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)

February

Rosa Parks

• February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

March

Paul Erdős

• March 18 - René Clément, French movie director (d. 1996)
• March 26 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)

May

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

• May 19 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India (d. 1996)

July

Gerald R. Ford

• July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)

August

Boris Pahor

• August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2022)

September

• September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist (d. 2007)

November

• November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)

Deaths

• March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist (b. 1820)
• March 31 – J.P. Morgan, American businessperson (banking) (b. 1837)
• April 15 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886)
• September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (b. 1858)

Nobel Prizes

Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Physiology or Medicine - Charles Robert Richet (French physiologist)
• Physics - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Netherlands)
• Chemistry - Alfred Werner (Switzerland)
• Literature - Rabindranath Tagore (India, then-British India)
• Peace - Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)