2014
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Years: | 2011 2012 2013 – 2014 – 2015 2016 2017 |
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 | 62 Eliz. 2 – 63 Eliz. 2 |
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 |
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2014 (MMXIV) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday(link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the3rd millennium, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010sdecade.
The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.[1]
Contents
Events
January
Predicted and scheduled events
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 16–28 – The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics will be held in Nanjing, China.
- 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.
November
- November 9 – The Catalan independence referendum is scheduled to be held.
December
- December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom are scheduled to 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 theSmithsonian Institution if it should be returned to Earth intact.
- The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to be published.[3]
- JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched.[4]
- The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available.[5]
Deaths
Main article: Deaths in 2014
Further information: Category:2014 deaths
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
- March 5 – Ash Wednesday
- March 20 – Vernal equinox
- April 20 – Easter
- May 1 – May Day
- May 13 – Vesak (Buddhism) [6]
- June 8 – Pentecost
- June 15 – All Saints' Day (Eastern Christianity)
- June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
- July 28 – Eid al-Fitr
- August 1 – Lammas
- September 23 – Autumnal equinox
- September 25 – Rosh Hashanah (Judaism)
- October 4 – Eid al-Adha
- October 4 – Yom Kippur
- October 23 – Diwali
- November 1 – All Saints' Day (Western Christianity) and Samhain
- December 17 – Hanukkah
- December 21 – Winter solstice
- December 25 – Christmas (Western Christianity)
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