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January 5, 2013
''This date is circumvention. There was a Mercury and Venus conjuction on January 5, 2015 when the show actually aired. ''
 * Kai and Luke merge, Kai wins.

February 5, 2013
''It's Bonnie's birthday. ''
 * Elena and Damon have sex for the first time since Damon's return and Alaric's compulsion.

February 2013

 * Elizabeth Forbes dies, Jeremy leaves town.
 * Bonnie harnesses the power of the aurora/eclipse to escape the prison world.
 * Sheriff Elizabeth Forbes' funeral takes place.
 * Caroline switches her humanity off and compels Liam to kill Sarah Salvatore unless Stefan switches his humanity off too.

March 2013

 * Stefan makes Caroline's life miserable by 'teaching' her how to exact proper revenge when your humanity is off, so that she will let go of her carefully controlled life and enjoy herself fully instead. Eventually, after resisting him all day, she gives in when he uses her desire to feed on human blood against her.
 * Stefan and Caroline have sex for the first time.
 * Lily Salvatore leaves the 1903 prison world and Bonnie and Damon arrange for Kai to be left behind.
 * Bonnie, while in 1994 getting Silas's headstone, discovers that the cure still existed in the prison world. She gives it to Damon so that he can decide what to do with it. He tells her that he no longer wishes to give Elena the cure but for someone else, possibly his mother Lily.
 * Enzo gives up on his plan to have revenge on Stefan, having grown disillusioned with it after Alaric told him that it was only a way to deal with his loneliness. He then tells Sarah the truth and apparently tells her about her parentage.
 * Lily knows Damon has The Cure as she overheard Bonnie give it to him the night before. She knows the reason he hasn't told Elena he has it for fear that she'll want to take it. She tells him that they're the same as they both don't want to be alone.
 * Stefan and Caroline have been on a killing spree and Matt and Tyler are in danger from them.
 * Elena learns that Jo is pregnant and reevaluates her life as a vampire.
 * Matt reveals to Elena that he sees her no different than any other vampire, telling her that she's capable of doing the same things as the humanity free Stefan and Caroline as the reason he refused her blood to heal himself as the reason he hates vampires including her.
 * Sarah gets Enzo to open up about his past and he tells her that Lily was the one who turned him when she found him dying of consumption in South Hampton port.
 * After Sarah learns of her true family from Enzo she wants Enzo to turn her into a vampire but he refuses to do so. Even though the vervain is out of her system he doesn't compel her to forget what she's learned.

April 2013

 * Bonnie steals the Ascendant from the Salvatore House after Damon tells her of Lily having it.
 * Stefan gets inside Caroline's head and makes her hallucinate her mother arresting her for the murders she committed before showing her a genuine memory of him and Liz.
 * Caroline turns Her Humanity switch back on after seeing Stefan's memory of her mother and being unable to read the letter she had written for her, having burnt it with her humanity still off.
 * Elena finds The Cure. After Lily left it for her find in her bedroom with Damon in the Salvatore house so as to cause problems between her and Damon as he hadn't told her about it.
 * Elena and Damon agree to take The Cure together.
 * Stefan tries to help Lily deal with being a ripper but she refuses his help. She stabs him and attacks a waitress at the Mystic Grill. With help of Damon, he locks her in the Salvatore Boarding House cellar.
 * Enzo tells Stefan that Damon has the cure and plans on taking it with Elena.
 * Lily attacks Bonnie and Jo, and Lily tells Jo she's expecting twins.
 * Elena takes the cure and becomes human again.
 * After fixing a meal for himself and Lily's Family, Kai tells them its time they finally left the 1903 prison world.

May 2013

 * Alaric and Jo's wedding takes place.
 * Kai returns in this episode. He crashes the wedding and stabs his sister from behind while having cloaked himself before causing the glass to shatter and all of the guests to take cover.
 * Elena is placed under a sleeping curse and says goodbye to her friends.
 * Tyler Lockwood becomes a werewolf again, as Liv was going to die anyway and triggering the curse by killing Liv was the only way to save Tyler's life.
 * Elena tells Tyler after he says goodbye to her to, tells him to leave Mystic Falls and to own being a werewolf as that makes him special.

Summer 2013

 * Damon and Alaric have been traveling Europe all summer.
 * Stefan has a meeting with his mother. After that, he goes to search Damon.

August 2013

 * Bonnie has been having trouble with her magic due to what Kai did to her in I'm Thinking Of You All The While. She also holds herself responsible for what happened to Elena.
 * Caroline has been keeping Stefan's confession a secret. She finally shared it with Bonnie.
 * Damon has been killing vampires who have killed girls like Elena or just innocent bystanders.
 * Stefan has been searching Damon for the whole summer in Europe. He has seen the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
 * Alaric has been drunk all summer to drown the pain of losing his wife and unborn children.
 * Elena wakes up in an unknown location.
 * The Heretics want to make Mystic Falls their town.
 * Caroline visited her mother's grave and met Andrew, a new guy, there. This parallels Stefan and Elena's first official meeting at the graveyard where they introduced themselves to each other.
 * To protect Mystic Falls from the Heretics after their attack on the Mystic Grill in revenge for Matt and Caroline's attempt to kill them by shooting vervain darts and stake them, the town is evacuated with the story of a mine fire to cover the deaths. The deal with Lily is that she and her heretic family can kill any human that comes into town (mostly homeless people) afterward and now officialy live in the Salvatore Boarding House, instead of hiding out there.
 * Alaric, Damon and Stefan return to Mystic Falls after their Europe trip.
 * Malcolm is killed by Damon and Bonnie.

September 2013

 * After discovering Malcolm's body, Lily and the Heretics retaliate by capturing Stefan and cloaking Elena's coffin.
 * Enzo tries to kidnap Caroline, but is stopped by Damon.
 * Bonnie and Damon rescue Stefan from his captivity by Lily and the Heretics.

October 24, 2013

 * Caroline is busy with preparations for Whitmore's House of Evil.

October 25, 2013

 * Bonnie experiences visions.
 * Damon asks for Bonnie's and Alaric's help to capture Oscar when he arrives back in town.
 * Stefan remembers his time with Valerie back in 1863.

October 26, 2013

 * Stefan wakes up the next day.
 * Caroline enlists Stefan's, Bonnie's and Damon's help to organize Whitmore's Halloween event.

October 27, 2013

 * Enzo has a talk with Valerie and Lily.

October 30, 2013

 * Cleo, William and Matt are helping Caroline too.
 * Mary Louise and Nora announced that the Heretics were coming to Whitmore's House of Evil.

October 31, 2013

 * Whitmore's House of Evil takes place.
 * Damon discovers the Phoenix Stone, which belonged to Oscar.

November 1, 2013

 * Caroline and Cleo are rescued by their friends from Oscar's hands after being captured by him.
 * Stefan is confronted by Caroline during the rescue mission about Valerie.
 * Elena becomes a Guardian by the initiation-ritual. The sleeping spell by Kai is changed by Idola, Bonnie and herself in a dream-like state.

November 2, 2013

 * Damon trades Oscar for Elena's coffin. He is killed by Ethan for the Phoenix Stone.
 * Valerie kills Oscar as to keep Julian away.