Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 13
August 13: Independence Day for the Central African Republic (1960)
- 1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) fell to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- 1920 - The Battle of Warsaw began in the Polish-Soviet War.
- 1704 - 300th anniversary of The Battle of Blenheim, turning point of the War of the Spanish Succession with English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
- 1961 - East Germany began to build the Berlin Wall to frustrate attempts to escape the Iron Curtain.