Thirteen Safar

13 Safar or 13 Safar al-Khair or 13 Safar al-Muzaffar or Day 13 \ 2 (the third day of the second month) is the third and forty-third day of the days of the year according to the Hijri Qamari calendar (Arabic). There remain 311 or 312 days for the end of the year.

Events

* 37H - The announcement of the arbitration document between Ali bin Abi Talib and Muawiya bin Abu Sufyan after the Battle of Siffin.
* 929H - The Ottoman conquest of Rhodes Island in the Mediterranean, which threatened Islamic countries bordering the sea; Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent opened it to secure the Ottoman state from its threat.
* 1198H - The Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire signed a peace treaty known as "The Constantinople Agreement", which ended the Russo-Ottoman War.
* 1220H - Muhammad Ali Pasha was appointed governor of Egypt after he was sworn in by the notables of the province and supported by senior scholars and men of the nation this appointment.
* 1271H - The Ottoman-French-English alliance army defeated the Russian army in the Battle of Ankyra during the Crimean War, and Russia lost 11,000 casualties in this battle, and was forced to withdraw its army from Moldova.
* 1353H - Iraq Oil Company completed its construction work on the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline for exporting Iraqi oil through Mediterranean ports, which stopped operating after the establishment of the State of Israel.
* 1344H - Turkey issued an order to close all zawiya and tekke after the republican regime was established in them.
* 1352H - King Fuad opened Al-Khadiwi Ismail Bridge (Qasr al-Nil) later.
* 1355H - The Italians succeeded in occupying Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after they had begun their invasion of this country about six months ago. After that, the Negus Haile Selassie fled to England.
* 1361H - The end of the Java Sea Battle with the defeat of American forces by Japanese forces, and this defeat is considered one of the greatest defeats suffered by the United States in its history.
* 1375H - Moroccan Sultan Muhammad bin Arafah abdicated the throne for the benefit of Muhammad bin Yusuf.
* 1382H - Algeria submitted a request to join the Arab League after gaining independence from France.
* 1383H - Protests broke out in Iran against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after he delivered an angry speech attacking Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Israel and the United States.
* 1400H - UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim visited Iran to discuss the release of American hostages being held inside the US embassy in Tehran.
* 1416H - Ratko Mladić committed a massacre against Bosnian Muslims in the city of Srebrenica, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
* 1425H - Greek Cypriots rejected the reunification of Cyprus where 75.83% of Greek Cypriots voted against the plan proposed by the United Nations to unify the Greek and Turkish parts of the island, while 64.9% of Turkish Cypriots voted in favor of the plan.
* 1427H - Israeli officials opened a new Jewish prayer room in Al-Mabka Square in the presence of President Moshe Katzav, Mayor of Jerusalem Ory Pazuelo and senior rabbis in Israel.
* 1432H - The Constitutional Democratic Gathering in Tunisia expelled former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and six of his closest associates from its ranks after days of his overthrow, and interim President Fouad Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi took over the party because they sought to separate the state from the party.
* 1439H - Archaeologists announced the discovery of a new large hall inside the Great Pyramid.
* 1442H - Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah took the constitutional oath in a special session.