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Events in the year2023 inKuwait.^[1]

Photo	Post	Name
	Emir of Kuwait	Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Until 16 December)
		Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Starting 16 December)
	Prime Minister of Kuwait	Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

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• 1 January – Sunday –New Year's Day
• 19 February – Sunday –The Prophet's Ascension
• 25 February – Saturday –National Day
• 26 February – Sunday –Liberation Day
• 27 February – Monday – Public Sector & Bank Holiday in lieu of Kuwait National Day
• 21–25 April –Eid al-Fitr
• 27 June – Tuesday – Arafat Day
• 28–30 June –Eid al-Adha
• 1–2 July –Eid al-Adha
• 20 July – Thursday –Islamic New Year (In lieu of Wednesday 19 July)
• 28 September – Thursday –The Prophet's Birthday
• 17–19 December – Mourning for SheikhNawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
• 31 December – Sunday – Public Sector & Bank Holiday in lieu ofNew Year's Day 2024

• 19 March – The Constitutional Court ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament elected in2020, citing discrepancies in the decree dissolving the previous parliament.^[3]

• 6 June -2023 Kuwaiti general election: Kuwaitis return to the ballots again for the third time in three years following the second dissolution of the 16th session by Crown PrinceMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

• 18 June –Kuwaiti Prime MinisterAhmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah forms the44th Cabinet following his reappointment, appointingAhmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah as thedefense minister andSaad Al Barrak as theoil minister.^[4]

• 27 July – Kuwait executes five byhanging, including man convicted overISIS mosque bombing in 2015 that had killed 26 people.^[5]

• 30 October – An Indian nurse from the Al Sabah Hospital was deported by the Kuwaiti government for her pro-Israel stance and calling Palestinians "terrorists".^[6][7]

• 26 November – Kuwait's highest courtsentences formerdefense andinterior ministerKhaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah to seven years in prison for mishandling military funds while formerPrime MinisterJaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, who faced similarcharges, is only ordered by the court to return the funds that he mismanaged.^[8]

• 16 December –
  • Emir of KuwaitNawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies at 86. His half-brother,Crown PrinceMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, succeeds him as the newemir.^[9][10]
  • The government announced three-days holiday across the country and 40 days mourning with flags lowered at half-mast.^[11][12][13] Malls and Complexes were closed from 16th to 18th, other than essentials. Ministry and State Institutions had holidays from 17th to 19th. Flags lowered at half-mast at all ministries, state agencies and main roads for a 40 day period.
• 20 December –
  • SheikhMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah took oath at a special National Assembly session becoming the 17thEmir of the State of Kuwait.^[14]
  • Emir SheikhMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives government resignation from Prime Minister SheikhAhmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.^[15]

• 26 February –Ali Al-Baghli (aged 75), politician
• 6 April — Saad Zenefer Al-Azmi (aged 73), formerNational Assembly member (2009-2011)
• 12 May -Abdulkareem Abdulqadir [ar] (aged 81), singer^[16]
• 25 May –Ahmad Johar (aged 65), actor
• 27 August – Sheikh Khaled Al-Saeedi, Imam of theGrand Mosque of Kuwait^[17]
• 15 December –Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain (aged 87), poet, writer and businessman^[18]
• 16 December –Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (aged 86), the 16th Ruler of Kuwait and the 7thEmir of the State of Kuwait, (b. 1937)^[19]

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