JANUARY
1 January
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sworn in as president of Brazil
Japan takes over G7 presidency
Croatia adopts the euro as its currency
Sweden assumes European Council presidency
3 January
First of five consecutive days of strike action on British railways
10 January
Golden Globes ceremony. Check out the full list of nominations here
Duke of Sussex memoir, Spare, published
13-14 January
Czech presidential elections. Billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babiš, accused of various conflicts of interest, is a candidate
16-23 January
Davos World Economic Forum
16-29 January
Australian Tennis Open. Former winner Novak Djokovic, who missed last year’s event because he refuses to have a Covid vaccine, will be able to play this year
22 January
Fiftieth anniversary of Roe v Wade. The supreme court ruling was overturned in June 2022
23-26 January
Paris haute couture fashion week
24 January
Oscars nominations
25 January
Burns Night
27 January
Holocaust Memorial Day
January undated
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, tentatively scheduled to visit China
FEBRUARY
1 February
US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate decision of the year. The Fed hiked rates seven times in 2022 to the highest level for 15 years
Twentieth anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia exploding on re-entry
2 February
Bank of England decides whether to increase interest rates again after doing so nine times last year
1-28 February
4 February-18 March
Six Nations rugby tournament
5 February
Grammy awards
G7 price cap/EU ban on Russian oil products. The cap is aimed at limiting the amount of petrodollars that can underpin Vladimir Putin’s war
9 February
Salman Rushdie’s novel Victory City published, his first work since he was attacked in the US in August
10 February- 4 June
Huge Vermeer retrospective opens at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
10-26 February
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa
11 February
Iranian president address to mark 1979 revolution anniversary. The regime has been trying to quell some of the most serious protests ever seen in the Islamic republic.
11 February
The Brit awards
12 February
American football Super Bowl
30 years since the murder of James Bulger
16 February
One hundred years since Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo scheduled to open.
17-25 February
Rio carnival
19 February
Bafta awards
24 February
First anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine
25 February
Nigeria presidential election
MARCH
8 March
International Women’s Day
9-12 March
Crufts dog show
12 March
The Oscars
14-17 March
Cheltenham festival
20 March
Twenty years since the Iraq war
26 March
Oxford and Cambridge boat race
March undated
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies public benefit corporation is expected to publish phase 3 results of MDMA for PTSD by the end of March.If positive, the results would be a crucial step towards the US Food and Drug Administration approving the drug as a treatment.
31 March
The titanosaur, the largest known creature ever to have walked our planet, goes on show at the Natural History Museum
APRIL
1 April
Fifty years since VAT introduced
6-9 April
Masters Golf in Augusta
8 April
Fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death to be commemorated with events around the world
10 April
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday agreement
13-15 April
Grand National festival at Aintree, Liverpool
15 April-1 May
World snooker championship in Sheffield
22 April
Stephen Lawrence Day: 30 years since his death
23 April
London marathon
April undated
India’s population is predicted to overtake China’s
The European Space Agency plans to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which will explore the planet and its large ice-covered moons after an eight-year transit
Launch of Eris, the first Australian-made rocket
MAY
2 May
EU Digital Markets Act goes live – a set of new rules intended to curb the dominance of big tech companies
3 May
World Press Freedom Day
4 May
UK local elections
6 May
Coronation of King Charles
13 May
Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool
14 May
Women’s FA Cup final
Israel marks 75th anniversary
16-27 May
Cannes film festival
18-21 May
US PGA golf
19-21 May
G7 Summit in Japan
23-27 May
Chelsea flower show
25 May-4 June
Hay festival of literature and arts
May undated
Possibly Covid-19 inquiry hearings. More than 200 scientists have been asked to give evidence about the effectiveness of the UK response to the pandemic
JUNE
3 June
Men’s FA Cup final
15-18 June
Isle of Wight festival
16 June-31 July
Men’s Ashes
18 June
Turkish presidential election
20-24 June
Royal Ascot
21-25 June
Glastonbury music festival
22-25 June
Royal Highland show
22 June-18 July
Seventy-five years since Windrush passengers arrived in UK
29 June-16 July
Manchester international festival
June undated
Worldwide Developers Conference, hosted by Apple. Possible launch of Apple AR headset
JULY
1 July
Spain assumes European Council presidency
1-23 July
Tour de France
2 July
London Pride
3-16 July
Wimbledon tennis championships
5 July
Seventy-five years since NHS established
7-9 July
Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone
15 July-10 September
BBC Proms
16-23 July
UK Golf Open at St Andrews
20 July-20 August
Fifa Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand
27 July
North and South Korea to observe 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean war
AUGUST
4-27 August
Edinburgh festival
19-27 August
World Athletics Championships in Budapest
27-28 August
Notting Hill carnival
28 August-10 September
US Tennis Open
SEPTEMBER
8 September-28 October
Rugby World Cup
9-10 September
G20 summit in India
12-30 September
Seventy-eighth session of the UN general assembly in New York
10 September
Great North Run
15-19 September
London fashion week
OCTOBER
16 October
Walt Disney 100th anniversary
20 October
Sydney Opera House 50th anniversary
25 October-26 November
Cricket World Cup in India
29 October
Argentina elections
A hundred years since Turkey was founded
October undated
BFI London film festival
Nobel prize announcements
Booker prize
Nasa plans to launch the Psyche spacecraft, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche
NOVEMBER
11 November
Deadline for Polish parliamentary elections in which the Law and Justice party will be challenged for power
20 November
Sixtieth anniversary of John F Kennedy assassination
21-26 November
Davis Cup
23 November
Sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who
30 November-12 December
Cop28 in UAE
November undated
London jazz festival
Introduction of EU Etias scheme. UK and non-EU citizens will eventually have to pay for a €7 (£6) visa waiver form to enter its passport-free zone
DECEMBER
1 December
World Aids Day
Brazil G20 presidency
10 December
Nobel peace prize award ceremony
Deadline for Spanish general elections
• This article was amended on 3 January 2023 to correctly refer to the Natural History Museum, not the “National History Museum”, in the entry for 31 March.
