2023 TIMELINE

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Across
  1. 2. - [29th March] China and another country sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary
  2. 4. - [20th August] England lose 1-0 to the winners of the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup held in Austrailia and New Zealand
  3. 8. - [5th May] The World Health Organization ends its declaration of this virus being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic
  4. 9. - [25th January] Chris Hipkins succeeds Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of this country
  5. 10. - [14th July] This union announces it will begin a strike against the major film and TV studios in protest of low compensation, ownership of work, and generative AI
  6. 12. - [19th November] Australia defeats this side and wins the 2023 Cricket World Cup
  7. 14. - [14th March] This artificial intelligence research organisation launches GPT-4, a large language model for ChatGPT, which can respond to images and can process up to 25,000 words
  8. 15. - [15th April] Nuclear power ends after 50 years in this country, with the closure of the final power plants
Down
  1. 1. - [3rd February] These Chinese spying devices sent the U.S. into a frenzy, after spotting these supposed spying devices, sent by China, over the Americas
  2. 3. - [21 July] – The films Barbie and Oppenheimer open, while being paired as a major internet and cultural event with a unique name
  3. 5. - [1st January] This country adopted the Euro
  4. 6. - [31st December] Queen Margrethe II announces her abdication effective 14th January 2024, after 52 years on the throne in this country
  5. 7. - [13th October] – After British regulators' approval, this multinational technology corporation closes its $68.7 billion USD acquisition of Activision Blizzard
  6. 11. - [18th June] This submersible saw all 5 crew members catastrophic implode, while exploring the sunken remains of the Titanic
  7. 13. - [12th December] COP28 is held in this city, and a consensus is reached by countries to transition away from fossil fuels