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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
The Filipino singer Rachelle Ann Go won the reality talent show Search for a Star, performing a cover of Mariah Carey's "Through the Rain" in the grand final.
A mass shooting at a primary school occurred in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and a teacher and prompting tighter gun control in the United Kingdom.
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President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against racism and police brutality.
Katerina Sakellaropoulou is sworn in as the first female President of Greece amid strict COVID-19 measures.
The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people.
Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.
Serbian Army Mi-17 helicopter crashes near Belgrade airport while transporting a 5-day-old baby with respiratory problems to hospital, killing all 7 on board.
The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas.
The Mw 6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-29 carrying the TDRS-4 satellite.
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 crashes into the White Mountains near Bishop, California, killing 36.
Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
Kitty Genovese is murdered in New York City, prompting research into the bystander effect due to the false story that neighbors witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her.
Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.
The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
The eruption of Ritter Island triggers tsunamis that kill up to 3,000 people on nearby islands.
The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
Participants at the Congress of Vienna declare Napoleon an outlaw following his escape from Elba.
A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.
William Herschel discovers Uranus.
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
Siege of Warangal: Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq sends an expeditionary army led by his son, Muhammad bin Tughluq, to the Kakatiya capital Warangal – after ruler Prataparudra has refused to make tribute payments. He besieges the city and finally, after a campaign of 8 months, Prataparudra surrenders on November 9.
The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Genoa sign a permanent treaty against the Venetians at Nymphaeum.
The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
Election of Pope Felix III following the death of Pope Simplicius earlier that month.
Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.