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Ongoing events

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–2023 H5N1 outbreak
• Opioid epidemic
• São Paulo floods and landslides

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2023 global energy crisis
• 2021–2023 inflation surge
• 2022–2023 food crises
• Great Resignation
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pakistan economic crisis
• South African energy crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Zimbabwean hyperinflation

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• French pension reform strikes
• Haitian crisis
• Iranian protests
• Israeli anti-judicial reform protests
• Libyan crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Peruvian protests
• Qatargate
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United Kingdom railway strikes
• United States abortion protests
• Venezuelan crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• April

• 16: French Polynesia, Assembly (1st)
• 19: Cuba, President (indirect)
• 20: Bhutan, National Council
• 24: British Virgin Islands, House of Assembly
• 29: Niue, Assembly

Upcoming

• 30: French Polynesia, Assembly (2nd)
• 30: Paraguay, President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
• 30: Uzbekistan, Constitutional referendum

• May

• 7: Chile, Constitutional Council
• 11: Micronesia, President (indirect)
• 13: Mauritania, National Assembly (1st)
• 14: Thailand, House of Representatives
• 14: Turkey, President, Grand National Assembly

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States: Pras Michél, Alex Murdaugh

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Sport

• Association football

• 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
• 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
• 2022–23 Bundesliga
• 2022–23 La Liga
• 2022–23 Ligue 1
• 2022–23 Premier League
• 2022–23 Serie A
• 2023 MLS season

• Australian rules football

• 2023 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2023 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2023 NBA Playoffs
• 2022–23 EuroLeague

• International cricket

• 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
• 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League

• Golf

• 2022–23 PGA Tour
• 2023 PGA Tour Champions
• 2023 Ladies European Tour
• 2023 European Tour
• 2023 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs

• Motorsport

• 2023 Formula One World Championship
• 2023 MotoGP World Championship
• 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2023 IndyCar Series

• Tennis

• 2023 ATP Tour
• 2023 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons

• 2022–23 curling season
• 2022–23 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April

• 27: Dick Groat
• 27: Jerry Springer
• 25: Harry Belafonte
• 25: Winfried Bischoff
• 23: Alton H. Maddox Jr.
• 22: Mudar Badran
• 22: Len Goodman
• 22: Barry Humphries
• 21: Kate Saunders
• 21: Mark Stewart
• 19: Todd Haimes
• 19: Richard Riordan
• 19: Lin Hui
• 19: Bob Maguire
• 19: Moonbin
• 18: Albert del Rosario
• 18: Charles Stanley
• 17: Chris Smith
• 17: Oleh Barna
• 16: Ahmad Jamal
• 15: Atiq Ahmed
• 15: Mufti Abdul Shakoor
• 14: Mark Sheehan
• 14: Ed Koren
• 14: Murray Melvin
• 13: Craig Breen
• 13: Mary Quant
• 11: Meir Shalev
• 10: Al Jaffee
• 10: Anne Perry
• 8: Michael Lerner
• 7: Ben Ferencz
• 7: Elisabeth Kopp
• 7: Harry Lorayne
• 7: Rachel Pollack
• 7: Bruce Haigh
• 6: Paul Cattermole
• 6: Nora Forster
• 6: Mimi Sheraton
• 5: Bill Butler
• 5: Leon Levine
• 5: Masanori Hata
• 4: Craig Breedlove
• 4: Bob Lee
• 4: Billy Waugh
• 4: Bokito
• 3: Jane LaTour
• 3: Nigel Lawson
• 3: Roy McGrath
• 3: Galarrwuy Yunupingu
• 2: Butch Miller
• 2: Norman Reynolds
• 2: Seymour Stein
• 2: Vladlen Tatarsky
• 1: Kwame Brathwaite
• 1: Ken Buchanan
• 1: Alicia Shepard
• 1: Klaus Teuber

March

• 31: John Brockington
• 31: Rabbie Namaliu

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Oromo conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency
• Niger Delta conflict

• Sahel

• Burkina Faso insurgency
• Mali War

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• SAF−RSF conflict
• War in Darfur

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Insurgency in Northeast India
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war
• Karen conflict
• Rohingya conflict

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• Communist rebellion

• Thailand

• South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt

• Sinai insurgency

• Iraqi conflict

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel and Palestine

• Gaza–Israel conflict

• Nagorno-Karabakh

• Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis

• Syrian civil war

• Foreign involvement

• Iran–Israel conflict
• Turkish intervention
• U.S.–led intervention

• Turkey

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict

• Yemeni civil war

• Saudi Arabian–led intervention

• Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2023 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain