1913

Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar).

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

 * May 30 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war.

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

 * October 1 - Villa's troops take Torreon after a three-day battle when government troops retreat

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)

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)