Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar).
Events of 1913[]
January[]
- January 23 - Military coup in Ottoman Empire lead by Enver Pasha, the CUP overthrew the Liberal Union coalition and introduced a military dictatorship (Coup of 1913).
March[]
- March 4 - Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States.
- March 13 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in USA.
- March 18 - George I of Greece is assassinated.
- March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT) is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.
- March 25 - Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadaloupe and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government as the head of "Constitutionals"
- March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.
May[]
June[]
- June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre: US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines. (Disputed: First Battle of Bud Dajo)
July[]
- July 3 - Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
August[]
- August 4 - In China, province of Chungking declares independence. Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks
September[]
- September 29 - Pancho Villa is elected commander of the "Northern Division" of the Constitutionals
October[]
Births[]
January-February[]
- January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (d. 1994)
- January 18 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (d. 2006)
July-August[]
- July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
- August 27 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
September-October[]
- September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
Deaths[]
January - June[]
- January 4 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
July - December[]
- July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (b. 1845)
- July 13 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
Date unknown[]
- John S. Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
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