266 - On March 13, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, taking the name Francis. He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. He took on the role from Benedict XVI who was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.
€10 billion - the amount the European Union agrees to bailout Cyprus in March. It leads to a banking crisis on the island.
2 - The number of bombs which go off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The explosions killed three and injured 264.
8 - An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka in April, leaving 1,129 dead and 2,500 injured. The accident is the deadliest non-terrorist building collapse in modern times and the third-worst industrial disaster in history.
28 - Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union on July 1.
147 - The number of years without a Royal bearing the name of Prince of Cambridge, before Prince George was born on July 22. The baby is third in line to succeed his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, Mark Smith, an expert on British Royalty and monarchy, told the News at the time: “George III’s seventh son Prince Adolphus, born in 1774 was created Duke of Cambridge in 1801.
“His three children – Prince George born 1819, Princess Augusta born 1822 and Princess Mary born 1833 – were all styled Prince/Princess (insert name) of Cambridge from birth.”
Prince George then became Duke of Cambridge and died in 1904 with no legitimate children, while Princess Augusta and Princess Mary lost their titles when they married in 1843 and 1866 – the latter being the last year prior to 2013 with a Prince or Princess of the city.
$100 - Stephen Hawking revealed July’s confirmation by CERN scientists that the so-called ‘God particle’, the Higgs boson, exists lost him a $100 bet. The Cambridge professor argued that physics would be more interesting if it had not been found and confessed he had placed a wager with an American academic that the breakthrough, which earned Edinburgh’s Prof Peter Higgs a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics, would never happen. Scientists say the Higgs boson gives other particles mass.
11 - Oscar nominations racked up by George Clooney and Matt Damon – the former has won two and the latter one – during their critically acclaimed careers. But their accomplishments and riches were not enough to put them off visiting Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre in Cambridge and stunning staff and gym-goers as they took to the weight room and basketball court in June, while taking a break from filming at Duxford IWM.
67 - The final death toll after al-Shabaab Islamic militants attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, wounding a further 170 during the horrific attack.
4 - The number of hours Cambridge city centre was closed to Saturday shoppers due to a bomb scare in Petty Cury. Bomb disposal experts were called in to deal with the suspect item which turned out to be harmless but brought the Grand Arcade, Lion Yard and surrounding businesses to a halt in early October.
148 - guests and employees forced to evacuate Cambridge’s historic University Arms Hotel in their pyjamas and dressing gowns as flames ripped through the top floor during the early hours of the morning. Smoke billowed from the Regent Street building. The October blaze was blamed on a faulty air conditioning unit.
75mph - The speed at which a Greater Anglia train was travelling when a 26-year-old cyclist came just inches away from riding in front of it after ignoring crossing signals. The CCTV of the incredible near-miss was released by the British Transport Police in October and received worldwide attention. The woman was later cautioned by officers after responding to the appeal and being interviewed.
11,000,000 - The United Nation estimates that 11 million people were directly affected by Typhoon Haiyan – one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record – which battered the Philippines and Vietnam. Up to 10,000 people are believed to have died and about 673,000 people lost their homes.
400,000 - Cambridge is expecting this many spectators to flock to the city to watch next year’s Tour de France, following January’s announcement that it will host the start of the third range of the world’s greatest bicycle race. The route revealed later this year will start on Gonville Place, beside Parker’s Piece, at noon on Monday, July 7, and will take in some of Cambridge’s most famous sights such as the Round Church, Trinity Street and King’s Parade, before heading through Trumpington, Great Shelford, Hinxton, and Saffron Walden.
95 - The age of Nelson Mandela when he died on December 5 in Johannesburg. Tributes flooded in for the anti-apartheid campaigner, who spent 27 years in prison, including condolences from Cambridge University’s Magdalene College which bestowed an honorary fellowship on him in 2001.
3,000,000 - passenger journeys on the guided bus.
9,000,000 - the approximate number of passenger journeys through Cambridge train station over the year.
A year at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), which runs Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie (correct on December 18):
185,810 - hospital admissions
555,966 - visits from outpatients
101,325 - AE admissions
33,562 - scheduled operations completed
6,167 - emergency operations
5,278 - total births