Now the end is near and so we face the final curtain... but before we bid farewell to 2013 we must celebrate the ups and downs the year has had to offer.
In the last week compilation videos have surfaced, and thanks to DJ Earworm the biggest songs of 2013 have been put together in one fantastic mash up. However nothing has covered the events of the year quite like this next image.
BeutlerInk's illustrator
Mario Zucca decided to detail the most popular moments of 2013 pop culture and news in one epic infographic.
From onstage antics to onscreen breakthroughs, television highlights to the tragic loss of some amazing people, this is one amazing animated walk down memory lane.
List of included people and events:
- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler lampoon Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes; Swift gets pissed
- Justin Timberlake announces a return to music
- Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII
- Vine app launches
- Beyonce performs at Superbowl XLVII
- Netflix series House of Cards premieres
- Harlem Shake
- First-ever women’s UCF fight (Rousey vs. Carmouche)
- Dead Space 3 launched
- 3D printer for stem cells developed
- DOMA ends + Prop 8 overturned
- Pope Francis elected
- Robin Thicke (“Blurred Lines”) vs. Daft Punk (“Get Lucky”) for song of the summer
- Candy Crush Saga becomes most popular game on Facebook
- BioShock Infinite released
- HTC One launches
- Higgs Boson confirmed
- Roger Ebert dies
- Reese Witherspoon arrested for disorderly conduct
- Iron Man 3
- Lakers guard Kobe Bryant suffers torn Achilles’ tendon
- Samsung Galaxy S4 launches
- Edward Snowden leaks NSA secrets
- Lindsay Lohan in rehab
- Arrested Development Season 4 (finally) premieres
- The Office final season
- Behind the Candelabra airs
- Final season of How I Met Your Mother begins
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- The Great Gatsby
- The Hangover Part III
- Gif versus “jif”
- Yahoo purchases Tumblr
- Customer irate at lack of Dunkin’ Donuts receipt
- Kimye have baby, North West
- Paula Deen racism scandal
- James Gandolfini dies
- Jon Stewart goes on hiatus leaving John Oliver in charge of The Daily Show
- Third season of Game of Thrones concludes with record ratings / Red Wedding
- World War Z
- Man of Steel
- LeBron James and Miami Heat win 2nd straight NBA Championship
- Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup
- The Last of Us released
- Instagram adds video
- Airplanes movie
- Prince George of Cambridge born
- Lauryn Hill goes to prison for tax evasion
- Cory Monteith of Glee dies
- Netflix series Orange is the New Black premieres
- Pacific Rim
- The Wolverine
- Google Reader closes
- Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs
- Twerking girl lights herself on fire
- Grumpy Cat meets Lil Bub
- BuzzFeed launches Internet for cats
- Olinguito discovered
- Breaking Bad ends
- Jenny McCarthy becomes new co-host of “The View”
- The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) goes viral
- Diana Nyad completes 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida
- Dennis Rodman goes to North Korea
- Grand Theft Auto V
- iOS 7 / iPhone 5S/5C released
- “Abundant, accessible” water on Mars
- Voyager-1 officially leaves solar system
- U.S. government shuts down
- Affordable Care Act website launches
- Lou Reed dies
- Jonas Brothers break up
- Netflix surpasses HBO for subscribers
- Marcia Wallace, voice of The Simpson’s Edna Krabappel, dies
- Gravity
- Ender’s Game
- Bulls guard Derrick Rose returns to court after rehabbing ACL injury; gets injured again
- Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Cards, win World Series
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Twitter IPO
- Playstation 4 launched
- Xbox One launched
- Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag released
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- China to attempt first unmanned Moon landing
- Bill de Blasio wins mayor of New York
Image via BeutlerInk. 
