2013 anniversaries | The Date-A-Base Book 2013

Over 4,000 newsworthy anniversaries that will
occur between January and December 2013

including significant historic events,
inventions, discoveries, births and deaths

The ideal reference book for ...

Writers
Journalists
Editors
TV and radio producers
Researchers
Film-makers
Teachers
Students
Speakers
Event planners
Quiz question setters

Dave and Kate Haslett

Dave and Kate Haslett
editors and publishers

What's in it?

	Details of over 4,000 historic anniversaries that will occur during 2013
	Covers January to December 2013
	Anniversaries are listed months in advance so you have time to write about them before they happen
	Includes anniversaries from the UK, USA, and worldwide - see sample chapter below
	Specially formatted for ease of use
	Every entry has been cross-checked with Encyclopaedia Britannica and other official sources for complete accuracy

Why you need this book

The Date-A-Base Book 2013 is a fantastic source of writing ideas, TV/radio programme ideas, and event ideas.

We've collected events and anniversaries from many different sources, and you'll find entries in this book that aren't generally available elsewhere, but are still significant and worth writing about.

That gives you a big advantage over other writers who don't know about them.

You can instantly see which significant anniversaries will occur during each month, quickly mark the ones you want to write about, then get straight on with your writing.

The entries in the Date-A-Base Book 2013 are listed months in advance, giving you plenty of time to research and write about them, and get your finished work onto editors' desks well before the publication deadline - and ahead of everyone else. That gives you a huge advantage over other writers!

What you can use it for

The Date-A-Base Book 2013 is suitable for writing in any format:

	magazine articles
	newspaper articles
	TV and radio features
	short stories
	novels
	non-fiction books
	screenplays
	poems

You can also use it for:

	event planning
	speeches
	setting quiz questions
	education and training ideas
	advertising features
	and much more

And you don't have to use each item only once; you could turn each one into many different pieces of writing, or adapt a single article for several different markets.

Just one single article sale will pay for your copy of The Date-A-Base Book 2013 many times over.

See a sample

The sample page below is laid out exactly as it is in the book.

JANUARY 2013

The first column Ann. means Anniversary - for example the 400^th anniversary of the event.

Ann.	Date	Event
400	20 Jan 1613	The Kalmar War between Denmark and Sweden ended with the signing of the Treaty of Knäred
400	21 Jun 1613	Birth of George Gillespie, Scottish theologian, leader of the Church of Scotland, polemical writer
400	28 Jun 1613	According to his notebook, Italian physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo observed the planet Neptune on this date, but he failed to recognise that it was a planet and took little notice of it. Neptune was officially discovered in 1846
400	29 Jun 1613	Death of Sir Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford
300	2 Jan 1713	Birth of Mademoiselle Dumesnil (Marie Dumesnil), French tragic actress
300	8 Jan 1713	Death of Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer, best known for his sonatas and Concerti Grossi
300	30 Jan 1713	England and the Netherlands signed the 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
250	2 Jan 1763	Death of John Carteret, (Lord Carteret), Earl Granville, British statesman
250	3 Jan 1763	Birth of Joseph Fesch, French cardinal, Napoleon’s ambassador to the Vatican
250	8 Jan 1763	Birth of Edmond-Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the USA during the French Revolution
250	17 Jan 1763	Birth of John Jacob Astor, German-born American fur magnate and property developer, founder of the American Fur Company; the richest man in the USA at the time of his death
250	26 Jan 1763	Birth of Charles XIV John (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte), French Revolutionary general, marshal of France, King of Sweden and Norway (1818-44)
200	2 Jan 1813	The Luddite trial opened in York, England to try 66 people accused of destroying mechanised looms. 17 of them were later executed, and others transported to Australia
200	4 Jan 1813	Birth of Baron Alexander von Bach, Austrian politician who instituted a system of centralised control for the Austrian Empire
200	4 Jan 1813	Birth of Sir Isaac Pitman, British school teacher, inventor of Pitman shorthand
200	11 Jan 1813 (Or 21^st?)	The first pineapples were planted in Hawaii
200	18 Jan 1813	Birth of Joseph Glidden, American farmer who invented and patented the first commercially successful barbed wire, which transformed the Great Plains of the American West
200	19 Jan 1813	Birth of Sir Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor who developed the first inexpensive method of mass-producing steel
200	20 Jan 1813	Death of Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer
200	21 Jan 1813	Birth of John C. Frémont, American military officer, explorer, map-maker and presidential candidate
200	22 Jan 1813	War of 1812 - the Battle of Frenchtown, Michigan, also known as the Battle of the River Raisin; British/Native American victory over the United States

Download the complete chapter for January 2013

My head is buzzing with ideas after seeing that, and I'm sure yours must be too - and that's just January!
The Date-A-Base Book 2013 contains the complete lists for February to December as well.