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Top Song(s)
• Chauncy Olcott - When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
• Charles Harrison - Peg o' My Heart
• Henry Burr - When I Lost You
• Ada Jones - Row! Row! Row!
• Chauncy Olcott - Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra
Top Film(s)
• The Student of Prague
• Suspense
• The Insects' Christmas
• Ingeborg Holm
• The Last Days of Pompeii
Best Selling Book(s)
• Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
• Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
• The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
• O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
• Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Famous Deaths
• January 16 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist and inventor.
• February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist, founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
• March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist, humanitarian and spy.
• April 18 – Lester Frank Ward, American botanist, paleontologist and sociologist.
• July 29 – Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• August 3 - Josephine Cochrane, American inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher.
• October 10 - Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch.
• October 19 – Charles Tellier, French engineer, inventor of the chemical refrigerator.
• December 7 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, inventor of mail order.
• December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
Medical/Science/Technology
• Meteor procession of February 9, 1913 visible along a great circle arc 6,040 miles across the Americas.
• Daniel J. O'Conor and Herbert A. Faber file for a United States patent on the composite plastic laminate Formica.
• The Bergius process is first developed and patented by German chemist Friedrich Bergius.
• Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discover the ozone layer.
• Albert A. Michelson measures tides in the solid body of the Earth.
• William Crookes creates sunglass lenses.
• Robert Millikan measures the fundamental unit of electric charge.
• Albert Schweitzer sets up the Albert Schweitzer Hospital at Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa.
• Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield, England.
• Johannes Stark demonstrates that strong electric fields will split the Balmer spectral line series of hydrogen.
Political Events
• February 3 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• March 4 - Woodrow Wilson is sworn in as the 28th president of the United States.
• March 4 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established.
• March 4 - The first U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds is passed.
• April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
• May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation.
• October 3 – The United States Revenue Act of 1913 re-imposes the federal income tax and lowers basic tariff rates.
• October 10 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• December 19 – The Raker Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
• December 23 – The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow Wilson.
National Events
• January – The magazine Vanity Fair is launched in New York City.
• February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.
• March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Procession takes place in Washington, D.C.
• April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
• April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City.
• July 3 – The 15th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of American Civil War veterans to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• October 7 – The Ford Motor Company starts production of the Model T on the assembly line in Detroit.
• October 31 - The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.
• November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
• December 1 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
Worldwide Events
• January 2 - Australia releases its first national stamp - a kangaroo on a map of Australia.
• February 13 – Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declares the independence of Tibet from Qing dynasty China.
• March 1 – British steamship Calvados disappears in the Sea of Marmara, with 200 on board.
• March 13 – Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
• March 23 – Supporters of Phan Xích Long begin a revolt against colonial rule in French Indochina.
• May 30 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London is signed, ending the war.
• June 13 – The predecessor of the Aldi store chain opens in Essen, Germany.
• July 13 – The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.
• November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested.