2014

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2011 2012 2013 – 2014 – 2015 2016 2017

2014 by topic:

News by month

Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec

Arts

Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight

Sports

Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Germany – Ghana –India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions

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2014 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2014 MMXIV
Ab urbe condita	2767
Armenian calendar	1463 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԳ
Bahá'í calendar	170 – 171
Bengali calendar	1421
Berber calendar	2964
British Regnal year	62 Eliz. 2 – 63 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2558
Burmese calendar	1376
Byzantine calendar	7522 – 7523
Chinese calendar	癸巳年十二月初一日 (4650/4710-12-1) — to — 甲午年十一月初十日 (4651/4711-11-10)
Coptic calendar	1730 – 1731
Ethiopian calendar	2006 – 2007
Hebrew calendar	5774 – 5775
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	2070 – 2071
- Shaka Samvat	1936 – 1937
- Kali Yuga	5115 – 5116
Holocene calendar	12014
Iranian calendar	1392 – 1393
Islamic calendar	1435 – 1436
Japanese calendar	Heisei 26 (平成26年)
Korean calendar	4347
Thai solar calendar	2557
Unix time	1388534400 – 1420070399
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2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2014th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 5th of the 2010s decade.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

[edit] February

• February 7 - February 23 – 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.

[edit] March

• March 7 - March 16 – 2014 Winter Paralympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
• March 27 – is Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) next perihelion.

[edit] April

• April 29 – Annular solar eclipse.

[edit] May

• May 29 – is 4P/Faye next perihelion.

[edit] June

• June 13 - July 13 – 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil.

[edit] July

[edit] August

• August 24 – The NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will cross the orbit of Neptune after 8½ years journey on to Pluto. It will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 12 years.

[edit] Date unknown

• The BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
• The entire World Trade Center site is estimated to be completed by 2014, including 1 World Trade Center, 200 Greenwich Street, 175 Greenwich Street, 150 Greenwich Street, 130 Liberty Street, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
• The International Cometary Explorer, a NASA solar probe that was re-tooled for a mission to explore comets, will approach Earth 31 years after leaving its gravitational influence. Unless it is again reactivated for a new mission, it has enough propellant to be re-captured in the Earth system and potentially recovered. It has already been donated to the Smithsonian Institution if it is ever recovered.
• The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to appear.^[1]

[edit] Major holidays and dates

• February 1 – Imbolc (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
• March 4 – Shrove Tuesday
• March 5 – Ash Wednesday
• March 17 – St Patrick's Day
• March 20 – Spring Equinox
• April 20 – Easter
• May 1 – May Day
• June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
• August 1 – Lammas
• September 23 – Fall Equinox
• October 4 – Eid al-Adha
• October 23 – Diwali
• November 1 – All Saints and Samhain
• December 17 – Chanukah
• December 21 – Winter solstice
• December 25 – Christmas

[edit] In fiction

[edit] Film

• Moon Child (2003)
• The Flash movie EPIC 2014 concludes in this year.

[edit] Television

• In the Supernatural episode "The End", the angel Zachariah sends Dean Winchester to this year to convince him to be a host for Michael. In this future, the Croatoan virus has spread across the world, Sarah Palin is president, and Sam Winchester is the host for Lucifer.

[edit] Computer and video games

• Battlefield 3 (2011) A military shooter game that takes place sometime during this year.
• Mega Man VI and Mega Man VII are set in this year, and Mega Man: The Power Battle is set at the end of 2014.^{[citation needed]}
• Soldiers of Anarchy (2002)
• Shattered Union: The Second American Civil War begins in this year.
• North American Conflict: The "Can-Am War" starts on June 12, with a U.S. invasion of Canada.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (2007)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

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