This is a list of 2013 events that occurred in Europe.
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Events
January
January 1 Ireland assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Cyprus. Marseille (France) and Košice (Slovakia) were named European Capitals of Culture. Antwerp (Belgium) was named European Capital of Sport. Maribor (Slovenia) was named European Youth Capital. United Kingdom took over the presidency of the G8. January 2: Five people died and thirteen were injured in a fire ignited in Gennevilliers suburb of Paris. January 7: A gas leak inside a coal mine in northern Turkey killed eight workers. January 10: Three Kurdish female activists, including a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, were shot dead in central Paris. The crime was condemned by the Kurdish community in Paris that organized a spontaneous protest as a sign of solidarity with the three women killed. January 13: More than 20,000 people marched through Moscow to protest Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. January 15: One person died and more than 40 were injured on the E4 motorway near Helsingborg, Sweden, after an estimated 100 vehicles crashed into one another due to dense fog and slippery road conditions. January 16: Two people were killed and 13 were hurt when a helicopter crashed into a crane on a building in central London. January 19: Four climbers have died and a woman was seriously injured after an avalanche in Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. January 26: Leftist former prime minister Miloš Zeman won the Czech Republic's first direct presidential election. January 27: Eleven people were killed and more than 30 injured when a bus slid off the road and plummeted into a ravine in central Portugal.
February
February 9 Five people were killed in a plane crash at Charleroi airport in Belgium. The airport was closed shortly after the crash. German Education Minister, Annette Schavan, resigned after Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf stripped her of her doctorate over plagiarism accusations. February 11 An underground methane gas explosion killed up to 18 miners at a coal pit in northern Russia. A minibus exploded on the Syria–Turkey border, killing at least 13 people and injuring 50 others. February 13: At least five people were killed when a plane carrying football fans attempted an emergency landing and caught fire in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. February 15: A Chelyabinsk meteor broke up in the vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. According to Chelyabinsk's health department, around 1,200 people were injured, two of whom seriously, from the shattering of windows caused by the shockwaves and the debris. February 18: Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan won Armenia's presidential election with over 58 percent of the vote. February 20: Bulgaria's government resigned from office after nationwide protests against high electricity prices and austerity measures. February 21: Some 30,000 angry workers took to the streets of Brussels to demonstrate against austerity measures planned by the Belgian government. February 24: Nicos Anastasiades, the conservative leader in Cyprus, won the presidential election with 57.5% of the vote. February 27: A shooting at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland has left three people dead and seven wounded, some of them seriously. February 28 Benedict XVI resigned as Pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294. Parliament of Slovenia ousted Prime Minister Janez Janša amid corruption allegations.
March
March 5: The Government of Moldova, led by Prime Minister Vlad Filat, was dismissed after a motion of censure voted by 54 MPs. March 10: A fire at a mixed-use building in the southwestern German town of Backnang killed eight people. March 13: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the Catholic Church's Pope, taking the name Francis I. March 15: About fifty cars were involved in a chain accident on the M7 motorway in Hungary. At least one person died and another 40 were wounded. March 16: Eurozone finance ministers agreed a 10 billion-euro bailout package for Cyprus to save the country from bankruptcy. March 19: Two football fans were killed and 52 injured in a bus crash in central Poland. March 28: A bus crash in northwest Russia killed six people and injured at least 23 others, including orphans returning from a field trip.
April
April 2: Zafferana Etnea, a small tourist town in the province of Catania, Italy, was covered in ash after Mount Etna erupted. April 7: Incumbent Filip Vujanović has won Montenegro's presidential election with 51.2% of the vote. April 9: Thirteen people were killed in Serbia after a man went on a gun rampage in a village near Belgrade. April 20: Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected President of Italy with 738 votes in the sixth ballot amid widespread protests by MPs eager to elect Stefano Rodotà. April 22: A man went on a shooting rampage outside a firearm shop in Belgorod, Russia, killing six people. April 26: A fire in a psychiatric hospital in the Russian town of Ramensky killed 38 people. April 29: A powerful explosion badly damaged an office building in the center of Prague, injuring up to 43 people. April 30: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands signed the official acts of abdication in favor of her son the Prince of Orange, who becomes King Willem-Alexander, the first male monarch in 123 years.
May
May 1 Three policemen were killed and two wounded after unknown assailants opened gun fire on their car in Buynaksk, Russia. At least 20 people were arrested and 10 injured after protesters and police clashed in Istanbul. May 3: Twenty people were injured and more than one hundred houses were damaged in a series of tornadoes in Northern Italy. May 8: A fuel train derailed in Russia's Rostov Oblast causing a massive fire with one person missing, 44 injured and 3,000 evacuated. May 11: 52 people were killed and over 140 injured in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey, near the Syrian border. May 20 At least four people were killed and 46 injured after two bombs exploded in the capital of Russia's Dagestan Republic, Makhachkala. Three Brazilian tourists have been killed and 22 more wounded after two hot-air balloons collided in Turkey. May 22: British Army soldier Lee Rigby was killed by two attackers in Woolwich district of London. Both were subsequently shot and apprehended by police. The UK government treated this murdering as a terrorist incident. May 23: A series of unprecedented riots in Stockholm resulted in widespread damage and seven arrests. May 26: Nearly 300 people have been arrested during demonstrations in Paris over a new law allowing gay marriage. May 31: Eight people died and more than 8,163 sustained injuries after police and demonstrators clashed in Taksim Square, Istanbul.
June
June 3: At least 24 people have died as torrential rains in central Europe caused landslides and widespread flooding. June 5: The two-time prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to two years in prison. June 17: The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Nečas, submitted his resignation following a corruption scandal. June 19: At least 43 people sought medical help and more than 6,500 residents were evacuated in Russia's southwestern Samara Oblast, after ammunition explosions shook a military training area. June 21: A major fire has caused extensive damage to Riga Castle, official residence of the Latvian president and home of Latvia's National History Museum. June 23: A bus carrying Romanian tourists plunged into a ravine near Morača Monastery, Montenegro, killing 18 and wounding 29. June 24: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in prison for abusing power and having sex with an underage prostitute.
July
July 1 Lithuania assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Ireland. Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. July 7: Up to 80 people have been injured, after a passenger train derailed in Russia's southern region of Krasnodar. July 8: Nine people have died and 21 were injured after a bus careered off the road near the town of Avila, central Spain. July 11: Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker has resigned after losing parliamentary support over a spy scandal. July 13 At least six people were killed and 192 injured in a train derailment in Paris suburb of Brétigny-sur-Orge. 18 people were killed and 45 injured after a gravel truck smashed into a bus near Podolsk, Russia. July 21: King Albert II of Belgium abdicated in favour of his son Prince Phillipe. July 24: Santiago de Compostela derailment: 79 people were killed and 131 injured; after a high-speed train derailed near Santiago de Compostela, Spain. July 28: A coach has plunged off a flyover in southern Italy, leaving 39 people dead and 8 injured. July 29: One man died and another 44 people were injured in a collision between two trains in western Switzerland.
August August 5: A semi-trailer truck caught fire in Norway's Gudvanga Tunnel, leading to the evacuation of 160 people, 55 of whom were hospitalized due to smoke inhalation and other injuries. August 6: An ammonia leak at Horlivka chemical plant, Ukraine, has killed five people and sickened more than 20. August 20 Russian police killed nine suspected militants, including a prominent warlord, in a clash in the restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. At least three people have been killed and five others injured when a gunman opened fire in a restaurant in a village in southern Germany. August 23: Four people have died after a Super Puma helicopter, carrying 18, crashed into the sea near Shetland. August 28: A small plane crashed in western Germany, killing four adults and one child and injuring three other children. August 30: A motorway pile-up killed three Romanians and injured 33 other people, including Bulgarians, Serbs and Turks, close to the Hungarian capital Budapest.
September
September 1: Hundreds of thousands of people protested in major Romanian cities against the Roșia Montană Project. September 8: Eleven people died when their minibus was hit by a passenger train at a level crossing near Iași, Romania. September 10: An embargo was imposed by Russia on imports of Moldovan wine. September 11: More than one million Catalans formed a human chain in support of the independence of Catalonia. September 12 Flash floods in the eastern Galați region of Romania have left nine people dead and forced thousands to evacuate. Three people died and another 29 were injured after two coaches collided in Nădlac, Romania. September 13: 37 people have died in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in Russia's Novgorod Region. September 16: A poacher shot dead three police officers and a paramedic in Annaberg, Austria. September 22: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has won German federal election, with 33.8% of the votes.
October October 3: At least 359 African migrants have died and 50 are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.