2023 in History

Ukraine begins major counteroffensive operations in the south.

Approves sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

Goita joins Burkina Faso and Niger in establishing the Alliance of Sahel States.

Announces armoured combat vehicles for Ukraine.

Addresses the Arab League summit and seeks wider support for Ukraine's peace formula.

Signs an executive order on artificial intelligence safety.

Confirms that Ukraine has used United States-supplied ATACMS missiles.

Claims Wagner captures Bakhmut after heavy losses.

Bakhmut falls after months of intense urban fighting.

Directs defenses as Bakhmut comes under intense pressure.

Addresses bank failures and depositor protection.

Announces that he will leave Barcelona after fifteen seasons with the first team.

Makes his competitive first-team debut against Real Betis at fifteen years of age.

Guides Barcelona to the Spanish league title with victory away to Espanyol.

Releases Before and After, reworking older songs in a continuous solo acoustic sequence.

Meets Joe Biden and discusses battlefield developments and long-term defense cooperation.

Agrees the Windsor Framework with the European Union.

Wins Commons approval for the Stormont brake element of the Windsor Framework.

Dies in a helicopter crash near Kyiv.

Hosts leaders of Japan and South Korea.

Sarmas leads a caretaker government between the May and June elections.

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar assumes office as caretaker Prime Minister.

Komsic takes the rotating chairmanship of the Presidency

Borjana Kristo becomes Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers

Leads Manchester City to its first Champions League title.

Wins the Champions League with Manchester City against Inter.

Chandrayaan-3 completes a soft landing in the Moon's south polar region while S. Somanath heads ISRO.

Chandrayaan-3 departs Sriharikota aboard LVM3 during S. Somanath's chairmanship for India's renewed lunar landing mission.

Accepts the Charlemagne Prize on behalf of the Ukrainian people for defending European values.

China issues a twelve-point position paper on the war.

Claims Wagner forces have captured Bakhmut after months of fighting

Starmer commits Labour to pursuing clean electricity and domestic energy investment.

Scores twice as Real Madrid defeat Al Hilal 5-3 in the Club World Cup final.

Scores twice as Real Madrid defeat Al Hilal 5-3 to win the Club World Cup.

Approves cluster munitions for Ukraine despite controversy.

Goita's government holds a referendum on a new constitution for Mali.

Scores Arsenal's equaliser as the team recover to defeat Chelsea 3-1 in the Women's League Cup final.

Scores both Real Madrid goals in the 2-1 Copa del Rey final victory over Osasuna.

Appointed defence minister of Ukraine

Parliament approves Umerov as defence minister.

Zelensky announces Reznikov will be replaced as defence minister.

Schlegel helps oversee DESI as its Early Data Release makes spectra for about 1.8 million unique targets available to the scientific community.

Is dismissed from a Donbas command role.

Directs federal response after the Ohio train derailment.

Starmer proposes reform of childcare, schools, skills and vocational education.

Welcomes the European Council decision to open European Union accession negotiations with Ukraine.

Meets European Union leaders and presses for fighter aircraft, air defense and artillery.

Hosts European Union leaders for a summit focused on accession reforms and wartime support.

Mellier leads the Euclid Consortium as the spacecraft launches on a mission designed to map cosmic structure and investigate the nature of dark energy.

Mellier oversees the Euclid science consortium as the mission's first public images demonstrate the image quality required for future dark-energy and weak-lensing measurements.

Leads Roma to the Europa League final, where Sevilla win after a penalty shootout.

Addresses a special session of the European Parliament and links Ukraine's defense to European freedom.

Attends the European Political Community summit in Moldova and discusses security support for Ukraine.

Villa finishes seventh and qualifies for the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Supports Liverpool's hosting of Eurovision after Ukraine cannot safely stage the contest.

Co-hosts Eurovision coverage as Liverpool stages the contest on behalf of Ukraine.

Announces support for delivering F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine

Announces Danish support for F-16 aircraft to Ukraine.

Confirms with Mark Rutte that training for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft will begin.

Says the United States will support F-16 training for Ukraine.

Scores after twelve seconds against Manchester United, the fastest goal in FA Cup final history.

Serdar appoints the former President to chair the powerful People's Council

Welcomes Finland joining NATO.

Scores against Granada to become Barcelona's youngest league goalscorer.

Burnham launches the first franchised Bee Network bus services in western Greater Manchester.

Signs a debt ceiling and spending agreement.

Scores five goals in a Champions League knockout match as Manchester City defeat Leipzig.

Starmer presents five long-term missions intended to guide a future Labour government.

Presents five concrete principles to the UN Security Council for protecting the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant during the war.

Announces a public inquiry into foreign interference.

Serves as Foreign Secretary from the House of Lords after receiving a life peerage.

Promulgates legislation reducing the standard working week gradually to forty hours.

Returns as prime minister after Smer wins elections.

Presents the IAEA comprehensive safety review of Japan's plan for discharging ALPS-treated water from Fukushima Daiichi.

India hosts the G20 leaders' summit in New Delhi during its presidency of the group.

Attends the G7 summit in Hiroshima to seek further international support for Ukraine.

The TV-D1 mission tests the Gaganyaan crew escape system in flight during S. Somanath's chairmanship.

The government led by Sanna Marin ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.

Withdraws Russia from the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Russia withdraws from the Black Sea grain deal.

Finishes his first Manchester City Champions League campaign as top scorer with twelve goals.

Mnangagwa contests and wins a second elected presidential term.

Ahmed Hachani became head of government of Tunisia.

ICC issues an arrest warrant over alleged child deportations.

Becomes subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant

ICC issues an arrest warrant over alleged child deportations.

Welcomes the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.

Scores the winning goal during his record international appearance.

Juno begins very close flybys of volcanic Io.

Pledges support for Israel after the Hamas attack.

Visits Israel after the Hamas attack.

Sponsors Saudi efforts to encourage international dialogue toward peace in Ukraine.

Chairs the meeting of national security advisers concerning the Ukrainian conflict.

Al-Khasawneh participates in jerusalem policy connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

ESA launches JUICE on a mission to study Jupiter and its large icy moons.

Juno passes close to Io, obtaining detailed views and measurements of its volcanic surface.

Russia denies Ukrainian accusations over the Kakhovka dam destruction.

Condemns the destruction of the Kakhovka dam as flooding spreads through southern Ukraine.

Warns of environmental damage after Kakhovka dam destruction.

Makes an unannounced visit to Kyiv.

Starmer argues that Labour is ready to govern and rebuild national infrastructure.

Tunisia held the second round of legislative elections to complete the new Assembly of the People's Representatives.

Presses allies to approve Leopard tank deliveries.

Announces Germany will provide Leopard 2 tanks and allow re-exports to Ukraine

Approves sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

Addresses the British Parliament during a European diplomatic tour.

Pass leads Hubble observations refining the radius of nearby transiting exoplanet LTT 1445Ac and confirming its Earth-like size.

Meets Emmanuel Macron to discuss air defense, armored vehicles and support for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Ukrainian strike kills Russian troops housed in Makiivka.

North Korea launches a military reconnaissance satellite.

Captains Manchester City to the club's first European Cup and completes the treble.

Completes the English league, cup and European treble.

Completes a league, cup and European treble in England.

Meets Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and discusses military assistance and Ukraine's peace formula.

Starmer makes sustained economic growth the first of Labour's national missions.

Visits Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin during the war

The President dissolves the National Assembly on the Prime Minister's advice.

Former President receives the title National Leader of the Turkmen people

Participates in the inaugural NATO-Ukraine Council meeting at the Vilnius summit.

Chavez leads a study linking long-term changes in Neptune's cloud abundance with the Sun's eleven-year activity cycle.

Welcomes the Netherlands' commitment to transfer F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine after training conditions are met.

Announces Russia will suspend participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty

Starmer sets goals for prevention, workforce reform and improved access to NHS care.

Shares the chemistry prize for discovering and synthesising quantum dots.

Shares the chemistry prize for discovering and synthesising quantum dots.

Shares the chemistry prize for discovering and synthesising quantum dots.

Is honoured for innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable.

Shares the medicine prize for mRNA modifications enabling effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Shares the medicine prize for mRNA modifications enabling effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Shares the physics prize for methods producing attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics.

Shares the physics prize for methods producing attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics.

Shares the physics prize for methods producing attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics.

Confirms Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployment plans.

Meets Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz during a European tour seeking heavier weapons and aircraft.

Ukraine begins using Patriot air defense systems.

Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is appointed chairman of the reformed People's Council

Meets Pope Francis and discusses the humanitarian consequences of Russia's invasion.

Serdar's presidency operates alongside Gurbanguly's elevated People's Council role

Appointed President of Argentina

Appointed President of Brazil, 3rd term

Becomes President of the Czech Republic.

Appointed President of Ecuador after the 2023 snap election

Appointed President of Nigeria after the 2023 presidential election

Takes office as president of Paraguay.

Wins the presidential election as the Colorado Party candidate.

Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.

Dorin Recean becomes Prime Minister after Gavrilita resigns

Goita promulgates the constitution approved in the June referendum.

Morgado and colleagues report a dense ring around Quaoar orbiting far outside the object's classical Roche limit.

Continues as President after being announced winner of the 2023 election

Wins a second presidential term in the national election held amid opposition challenges and logistical problems.

Real Madrid announce his transfer from Borussia Dortmund on a six-season contract.

Resigns as Ukraine's defence minister

Returns to frontline government as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.

Ukraine says Robotyne is liberated during the counteroffensive.

Scores from the edge of the area as Manchester City defeat Inter 1-0.

Announces suspension of Russian participation in New START while stating that Russia will continue observing the treaty's central numerical limits.

Starmer proposes neighbourhood policing and measures addressing violence against women.

Leads Saudi diplomacy implementing the restoration of bilateral relations.

Signs the agreement restoring diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Meets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as Germany announces additional military support.

Accepts the referendum result rejecting the second proposed constitutional text.

Mitsotakis begins a second premiership after New Democracy wins the June election.

Mnangagwa is inaugurated for another presidential term.

Pereira and colleagues report a second ring around Quaoar, also orbiting beyond the classical Roche limit.

Delivers his second State of the Union address.

Dadae is re-elected by Parliament for a second term as Governor-General

Declared re-elected for a second presidential term

Wagner claims a role in capturing Soledar.

North Korea tests a solid-fuel ICBM.

The second SSLV developmental mission succeeds during S. Somanath's chairmanship and places its payloads into the intended orbit.

Warns that the war has moved toward positional warfare and stalemate

Starmer promises higher ethical standards and stronger integrity rules for government.

Al-Khasawneh participates in state visit connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Supports Commons approval of the Stormont brake element of the Windsor Framework.

Meets Rishi Sunak and discusses long-range weapons and a coalition to provide modern fighter aircraft.

Requests security funding for Ukraine and Israel.

People's Council is transformed into a supreme representative body with broad constitutional influence

Announces plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Twelve newly confirmed moons raise Jupiter's recognized satellite count to 92 at the time.

Makes his two hundredth senior appearance for Portugal against Iceland.

Joins a United Auto Workers picket line.

Addresses the United Nations General Assembly in person and urges countries to oppose Russian aggression.

The United States destroys its final declared chemical weapon, completing destruction of the last declared national stockpile under OPCW verification.

Uses Victory Day speech to justify Russia's war aims.

Presses NATO allies for a clearer path toward Ukrainian membership and stronger security guarantees.

Voyager 1 stops returning readable science and engineering data after a flight-data-system memory problem.

A command sequence inadvertently points Voyager 2's antenna away from Earth, interrupting normal communications.

Deep Space Network commands restore full communications with Voyager 2 after its antenna is realigned to Earth.

Launches an armed mutiny against Russia's military leadership

Denounces the Wagner mutiny as a stab in the back

Says Wagner has stopped recruiting prisoners.

Visits Poland and thanks its leaders and people for extensive support to Ukraine.

Presses allies to provide modern battle tanks.

Meets Xi Jinping during the APEC summit.

Dies in a plane crash after the Wagner mutiny

Dies in a helicopter crash near Kyiv.

Death of Apollo 16 astronaut and Apollo 13 support figure Ken Mattingly.