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Ongoing events

Disasters

• 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2023 Pacific hurricane season
• 2023 Pacific typhoon season
• 2023 dengue outbreak in Bangladesh
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• 2020–2023 global chip shortage
• 2021–2023 global energy crisis
• 2021–2023 inflation surge
• 2022–2023 food crises
• Great Resignation
• Argentine monetary crisis
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pakistani economic crisis
• South African energy crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis

Politics

• Belarus–European Union border crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden
• Israel–Hamas war protests
• Israeli judicial reform protests
• Libyan crisis
• Nigerien crisis
• North Kosovo crisis
• Peruvian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United Kingdom railway strikes
• Venezuelan crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• October

• 22: Switzerland, Council of States, National Council
• 22: Argentina, President (1st), Senate, Chamber of Deputies
• 29: Oman, Consultative Assembly

Upcoming

• November

• 07: Liberia, President (2nd)

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States:  Ken Paxton · Peter Navarro

Ongoing

• Guinea:  Moussa Dadis Camara
• Israel:  Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy:  Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo:  Specialist Chambers
• Malta:  Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines:  Leila de Lima
• Sudan:  Omar al-Bashir
• United States:  Sam Bankman-Fried
• Vatican City:  Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC:  Ali Kushayb · Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz

Sport

• Association football

• 2023–24 UEFA Champions League
• 2023 Copa Libertadores
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
• 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2023–24 Premier League
• 2023–24 La Liga
• 2023–24 Serie A
• 2023–24 Bundesliga
• 2023–24 Ligue 1
• 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs
• 2023 Brasileirão
• 2023 NWSL season
• 2023–24 Women's Super League

• American football

• 2023 NFL season
• 2023 NCAA FBS college football season

• Baseball

• 2023 World Series
• 2023 Japan Series

• Basketball

• 2023–24 NBA season
• 2023–24 EuroLeague

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship
• 2023 Cricket World Cup

• Canadian football

• 2023 CFL season

• Golf

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

• Ice hockey

• 2023–24 NHL season

• Motorsport

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

• Rugby union

• 2023 Rugby World Cup
• 2023 WXV

• Tennis

• 2023 ATP Tour
• 2023 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons

• 2023–24 curling season
• 2023–24 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

October

• 30: Frank Howard
• 29: Robert Brustein
• 28: Matthew Perry
• 28: Saleemul Huq
• 27: Li Keqiang
• 26: Richard Moll
• 25: Robert Irwin
• 25: Zdeněk Mácal
• 24: Richard Roundtree
• 23: Bill Kenwright
• 23: Bishan Singh Bedi
• 22: Ida Applebroog
• 22: Dave Courtney
• 21: Vincent Asaro
• 21: Bobby Charlton
• 21: Natalie Zemon Davis
• 21: Joan Evans
• 21: Betsy Rawls
• 21: Bill Hayden
• 20: Haydn Gwynne
• 18: Dwight Twilley
• 17: Edward Bleier
• 17: Carla Bley
• 17: Tim Wallis
• 16: Martti Ahtisaari
• 15: M. S. Gill
• 15: Joanna Merlin
• 15: Suzanne Somers
• 14: Andy Bean
• 14: Piper Laurie
• 14: Dariush Mehrjui
• 14: Park Seo-bo
• 13: Louise Glück
• 12: Lara Parker
• 11: Phyllis Coates
• 11: Walt Garrison
• 11: Rudolph Isley
• 11: Cal Wilson
• 10: Jeff Burr
• 10: Mark Goddard
• 10: Louise Meriwether
• 09: Chuck Feeney
• 09: Keith Giffen
• 09: Anthony Hickox
• 09: Kevin Phillips
• 08: Herschel Savage
• 08: Burt Young
• 08: László Sólyom
• 07: Marouf al-Bakhit
• 07: Terence Davies
• 07: Anthony Holden
• 07: Phyllis Latour
• 06: Michael Chiarello
• 05: Dick Butkus
• 04: George Tyndall
• 03: Jacqueline Dark
• 02: Francis Lee
• 02: Alice Shalvi
• 01: Eve Bunting
• 01: Tim Wakefield
• 01: Beverly Willis

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

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel

• Insurgency in Burkina Faso
• Insurgency in Niger
• Mali War

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

• Papua conflict

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Foreign involvement

Middle East

• Iraqi conflict

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel and Palestine

• Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war

• 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

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