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==Events==
* January 1 - [[Sinaloa Cartel]]-linked gang Los Mexicles attacks a prison in Juarez, Chihuahua, rescuing their leader Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz   and at least 29 other prisoners. 10 officers, 7 prisoners and two gunmen are killed, while 13 total are injured.
* January 4 - [[Michael Haight|2023 Enoch, Utah shooting]]
* January 5 - [[Ovidio Guzmán López]] is arrested in at his ranch near Culiacan, Sinaloa. Failed rescue efforts by the [[Sinaloa Cartel]] cause 29 deaths (10 military and 19 cartel) and 36 injuries.
* January 8 - [[2023 Brazilian Congress storming]]: supporters of former Brazilian president [[Jair Bolsonaro]] storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto in an attempt to overturn the election results.
* January 27 - [[Khairi Alqam|2023 Neve Yaakov shooting]]
* January 30 - A [[Jamaat-ul-Ahrar]] [[suicide bombing]] inside a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, kills 84 people and injures over 220 others.
* February 25 - Bola Tinubu is elected President of Nigeria, succeeding [[Muhammadu Buhari]].
* March 8 - [[Allied Democratic Forces]] jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 35 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* March 17 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]], the first against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, in regards to [[war crimes]] committed in Ukraine.
* March 27 - [[Audrey Elizabeth Hale|2023 Nashville school shooting]]
* April 25 - A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest in Kenya. 429 followers of the [[Good News International Ministries]] are found in shallow graves throughout the forest, with over 613 people missing.
* May 4 - [[Uroš Blažić|Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings]]
* June 20 - At least 46 people are killed after a riot between [[MS-13]] and [[Barrio 18]] gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
* June 23 - The [[Wagner Group]], led by [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]], begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President [[Alexander Lukashenko]].
* July 26 - President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger is toppled in a ''coup d'état'' after members of his presidential guard and the armed forces seize control of the country and install General [[Abdourahamane Tchiani]] as leader of a military junta known as the [[National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland]].
* July 30 - 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the [[ISIS|Islamic State – Khorasan Province]] claims responsibility for the attack.
* August 30 - Following the announcement of incumbent president [[Ali Bongo Ondimba]]'s reelection as President of Gabon after the 2023 presidential election, the military launches a successful ''coup d'état'' and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power.
* August 31 - [[2023 Johannesburg building fire]]: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.
* September 19 - Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh, which ends with a swift Azerbaijani victory. Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.
* October 7 - [[Hamas]] launches a large-scale attack from the Gaza Strip, infiltrating southern Israel, prompting a full military response from the Israel Defense Forces. Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon and Syria, after rockets are fired by [[Hezbollah]] and attempts are made to penetrate Israel. Israel's Security Cabinet formally declares war for the first time since the [[Yom Kippur War]] in 1973.
* October 15 - The [[Law and Justice]] party wins the most seats in 2023 Polish parliamentary election, but loses its majority.
* October 17 - [[al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion|An explosion]] at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital kills 500 people, causing the largest loss of life during the conflict between Gaza and Israel since 2006.
* October 25 - [[Robert Card|2023 Lewiston shootings]]
* November 6 - The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. Speaking with Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], U.S. President Joe Biden calls for a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting to increase the flow of aid to civilians.
* November 22 - Israel and Hamas agree to a four-day ceasefire, the first pause in fighting since 7 October, during which many Israeli hostages will be released, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
* November 22 -  [[Geert Wilders]]' [[Party for Freedom]] (PVV) wins the most seats in the 2023 Dutch general election.
* December 21 - [[David Kozák|2023 Prague shooting]]
* December 22 - The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20,000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]].
* December 29 - Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a overnight assault, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. Ukraine launches a drone assault the following day, killing at least 21 people, including three children, and injuring 110 others, including 17 children.
==Births== 

===Victim births=== 

==Deaths== 

===Villain deaths===
* January 4 - [[Michael Haight]]
* January 10 - [[George Pell]]
* January 21 - [[Linda Kasabian]]
* January 23 - [[Franklin Delano Floyd]]
* January 27 - [[Malcolm Robbins]]
* February 5 - [[Pervez Musharraf]]
* February 17 - [[Alparslan Arslan]]
* February 23 - [[Donald Dillbeck]]
* February 28 - [[Geneviève Lhermitte]]
* March 5 - [[Pedro Rodrigues Filho]]
* March 6 - [[Harvey Carignan]] & [[Reginald McFadden]]
* March 12 - [[Hussein Abu al-Khair]]
* March 13 - [[Nicholas Calabrese]] & [[Jim Gordon]]
* March 15 - [[Fèlix Millet]]
* March 17 - [[John Jenrette]]
* March 27 - [[Audrey Elizabeth Hale]]
* April 10 - [[Anne Perry]]
* April 12 - [[Louis Gaskin]]
* April 13 - [[Josef Schütz]]
* May 5 - [[Terry Lewis]]
* May 10 - [[Rolf Harris]]
* June 5 - [[Robert Hanssen]]
* June 10 - [[Ted Kaczynski]]
* June 12 - [[Silvio Berlusconi]]
* August 3 - [[Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi]], [[James Barnes]] & [[Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff]]
* August 14 - [[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]]
* August 23 - [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] and [[Dmitry Utkin]]
* September 8 - [[Anthony Sully]]
* September 16 - [[Barry Bennell]]
* October 3 - [[Thomas Gambino]]
* October 11 - [[Doug Clark]]
* October 12 - [[Luis Garavito]]
* October 13 - [[Murad Abu Murad]]
* October 27 - [[Robert Card]]
* November 4 - [[Haruo Wakō]]
* November 5 - [[Mitar Vasiljević]]
* November 29 - [[Henry Kissinger]]
* December 21 - [[David Kozák]]

===Victim deaths===
* January 4 - Victims of the [[Michael Haight|2023 Enoch, Utah shooting]]:
**Tausha Haight
**Gail Earl
**Macie Haight
**Brilee Haight
**Ammon Haight
**Sienna Haight
**Gavin Haight