Gregorian calendar 2014 MMXIV Ab urbe condita 2767 Armenian calendar 1463 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԳ Assyrian calendar 6764 Bahá'í calendar 170--171 Bengali calendar 1421 Berber calendar 2964 British Regnal year N/A Buddhist calendar 2558 Burmese calendar 1376 Byzantine calendar 7522--7523 Chinese calendar 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4710 or 4650 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4711 or 4651 Coptic calendar 1730--1731 Ethiopian calendar 2006--2007 Hebrew calendar 5774--5775 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 2070--2071 - Shaka Samvat 1936--1937 - Kali Yuga 5115--5116 Holocene calendar 12014 Igbo calendar 1014--1015 Iranian calendar 1392--1393 Islamic calendar 1435--1436 Japanese calendar Heisei 26 (平成２６年) Juche calendar 103 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days Korean calendar 4347 Minguo calendar ROC 103 民國103年 Thai solar calendar 2557 Unix time 1388534400--1420070399 This box: view talk edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2014. 2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade. The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Predicted and scheduled events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 November 1.10 December 1.11 Date unknown 2 Major religious holidays and observances 3 In fiction 4 References Predicted and scheduled events January January 1 -- Latvia will officially adopt the euro currency and will become the eighteenth Eurozone country. February February 7--23 -- The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. March March 27 -- Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) will reach perihelion. April April 29 -- An annular solar eclipse will occur. May May 29 -- Faye's Comet will reach perihelion. June June 12 -- July 13 -- The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil. The Sky City skyscraper is planned for completion in Changsha, Hunan, China. August August 24 -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will cross the orbit of Neptune after travelling for over eight years. New Horizons is scheduled to reach its mission target, Pluto, in 2015. September September 18 -- The Scottish independence referendum will be held. The first unmanned flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft is scheduled to be launched in September 2014. November November 9 -- The Catalan independence referendum will be held. December December 31 -- The United States and the United Kingdom will officially withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, marking the end of their 13-year involvement in the Afghan Civil War. Date unknown Moore's Law of continuous microchip miniaturization is likely to become obsolete in 2014 due to economic constraints.[2] The International Cometary Explorer, a 1978 NASA solar probe that was repurposed for a mission to explore comets, will approach Earth for the first time in decades. Unless it is reactivated for a new mission, it has enough propellant to be re-captured in the Earth system and potentially recovered in orbit. It has already been donated to the Smithsonian Institution if it should be returned to Earth intact. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to be published.[3] A commercial cure for baldness is predicted to become available in 2014.[4] JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched in 2014.[5] The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available in 2014.[6] Major religious holidays and observances January 6 -- Christmas (Armenian Church) January 7 -- Christmas (Eastern Christianity) January 31 -- Chinese New Year February 1 -- Imbolc (celebrated on February 2 in some places) March 4 -- Shrove Tuesday

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