2023 (MMXXIII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
The year so far has seen the continued waning of the COVID-19 pandemic's influence over society, the continuation of last year's Russian invasion of Ukraine and escalating political tensions in the Horn of Africa, with an armed conflict in Sudan beginning in April. The year also saw a series of powerful earthquakes kill at least 57,000 people in Turkey and Syria; this event was the fifth-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century.
2023 additionally witnessed a banking crisis resulting in the collapse of numerous American regional banks as well as the buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS in Switzerland. Among American banks, the three largest banks which collapsed were Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank, the fourth, third and second largest banking collapses in US history respectively.