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This article is about the year 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
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MMXIVAb urbe condita 2767 Armenian calendar 1463
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԳAssyrian calendar 6764 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 Minguo calendar ROC 103
民國103年Thai solar calendar 2557 Unix time 1388534400 – 1420070399
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.Predicted and scheduled events
February
- February 7 - February 23 – 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
March
- March 7 - March 16 – 2014 Winter Paralympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
- March 27 – is Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) next perihelion.
April
May
June
- June 13 - July 13 – 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil.
July
- July 19 - The BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
- July 23 - August 3 – 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
August
- August 16 to August 28 – The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics will be held in Nanjing, China.
- 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.
Date unknown
- 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]
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
In fiction
Film
- Moon Child (2003)
- The Flash movie EPIC 2014 concludes in this year.
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.
Computer and video games
- 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)
- Battlefield 3 (2011) A military shooter game that takes place sometime during this year.
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