2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

The year 2013 was the 42nd year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the fifth year of the second term of the government of Sheikh Hasina.

• President: Zillur Rahman (till 20 March), Abdul Hamid (from 21 March)
• Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
• Chief Justice: Md. Muzammel Hossain

• The lowest temperature since Bangladesh's independence, at 37.4 °F (3.0 °C) was recorded in Saidpur on 10 January^[3] amid 2013 extreme weather events.

Note: For the year 2013 average official exchange rate for BDT was 78.10 per US$.

• 5 February – Protests broke-out in Shahbag, Dhaka following demands for capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment earlier that day, and for others convicted of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh.^[4][5] Later demands included banning the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party from politics including election and a boycott of institutions supporting (or affiliated with) the party.^[6]
• 15 February - Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death by machete-wielding activists from a militant group named Ansarullah Bangla Team.^[7]
• 28 February - The International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, the Vice-President of the Jamaat-e-Islami to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Following the sentence, activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked Hindus in different parts of the country. Hindu properties were looted, Hindu houses were burnt into ashes and Hindu temples were desecrated and set on fire.^{[8][additional citation(s) needed]}
• 3 March - Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami enforced a 48-hour hartal Protests led by Jamaate Islami activists and Sayeedi supporters were carried out during these strikes. during which, members of the Border Guards Bangladesh, and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) allegedly shot live ammunition and rubber bullets into unarmed crowds, which included children, conducted sweeping arrests and used other forms of excessive force during and after protests.^[9]
• 20 March - The incumbent President of the country, Zillur Rahman, died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore from a critical lung infection.^[10]
• 4 April - All Bengali blogs were blacked out for an indefinite time to protest the arrest of four bloggers in Bangladesh (Moshiur Rahman Biplob, Rasel Parvez, Subrata Adhikari Shuvo and Asif Mohiuddin).^[11]
• 24 April - A structural failure triggered the collapse of an eight-story commercial building called Rana Plaza in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka District which led to death of 1,134 individuals - mostly garments workers.^[12] Approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive.^[13] It is considered the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history also the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history.^[14][15]
• 5 May - Mass protests and rioting took place at Shapla Square in the Motijheel area of capital Dhaka. The protests were organized by the Islamist pressure group, Hefazat-e Islam, who were demanding the enactment of a blasphemy law.^[16][17] The government responded to the protests by cracking down on the protesters using a combined force drawn from the police, Rapid Action Battalion and paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh to drive the protesters out of Shapla Square.^{[18][19][20][21]}
• 8 May - A fire kills 8 people in a garment factory.^[22]
• 15 May - The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (the Accord) was signed. It was a five-year independent, legally binding agreement between global brands and retailers and trade unions designed to build a safe and healthy Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment (RMG) Industry.
• 10 July - hundreds of Bangladesh Civil Service examinees began protests^[23] demanding an immediate cancellation of all sorts of quota in public service recruitment. The protests continued for several days and turned into a nationwide movement against the Quota system in Bangladesh Civil Service recruitment.
• 12 December - Convicted war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla was hanged in Dhaka Central Jail.^[24]

• 15 January - Abdus Shakur, writer (b. 1941)
• 24 January - Nurul Islam, physician, national professor (b. 1928)
• 6 March - Abdul Jalil, politician (b. 1939)
• 16 March - Jamal Nazrul Islam, mathematical physicist (b. 1939)
• 20 March - Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b.1929)
• 10 April - Binod Bihari Chowdhury, activist (b. 1911)
• 20 April - Amin Ahmed Chowdhury, war hero, diplomat (b. 1946)
• 1 July - Mita Noor, actor (b. 1971)
• 18 August - Nazim Uddin Mostan, journalist (b. 1948)
• 19 August - Abdur Rahman Boyati, folk singer, composer (b. 1939)
• 10 October - Dilwar Khan, poet (b. 1937)
• 20 November - Rafiqul Islam, activist (b. 1950)
• 20 December - Khaled Khan, actor (b. 1958)

• 2010s in Bangladesh
• List of Bangladeshi films of 2013
• 2012–13 Bangladeshi cricket season
• 2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season
• Timeline of Bangladeshi history