Timeline March 2013

Events in March 2013 6

• 1915 – 2013 Princess Lilian The Secret Love The Welsh commoner who lived in a semi-secret relationship with Prince Bertil for 30 years.
• 1930 – 2013 Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Died 21 March 2013, aged 82 Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist whose 1958 debut Things Fall Apart became one of the most widely read works of African literature. He died in Boston after a period of declining health.
• 1954 – 2013 Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) Died 5 March 2013, aged 58 Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death, died of cancer in Caracas. He championed a socialist political movement known as Chavismo and remained a polarising figure in Latin American politics.
• 2013 Iditarod 2013 Winner: Mitch Seavey — 9 days 7h Mitch Seavey won his second Iditarod in 2013, making the Seaveys the only father-son duo where both won multiple times.
• 2013 Pope Francis elected First Jesuit and Latin American pope Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, becoming the first Jesuit, first Latin American and first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
• 2013 Xi Jinping becomes President of China National People's Congress confirms leadership transition Xi Jinping was elected President of the People's Republic of China by the National People's Congress, completing a leadership transition that had begun with his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary months earlier. He also assumed the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission.