2014
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| 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 |
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| Architecture - Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music (Country, Metal, UK) - Film - Television - Home video |
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| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works - Introductions |
| Gregorian calendar | 2014 MMXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2767 |
| Armenian calendar | 1463 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 170 – 171 |
| Berber calendar | 2964 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2558 |
| Burmese calendar | 1376 |
| Chinese calendar | 4650/4710-12-1 (癸巳年十二月初一日) — to —
4651/4711-11-10(甲午年十一月初十日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1730 – 1731 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2006 – 2007 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5774 – 5775 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2069 – 2070 |
| - 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 |
2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents |
[edit] Predicted events
[edit] January
[edit] February
- February 7 - February 23 — 2014 Winter Olympics, to be held in Sochi, Russia.
[edit] March
[edit] April
- April 8 - Windows XP, Microsoft's best selling operating system, will no longer be supported.
- April 29 — Annular solar eclipse
[edit] July
- July 23 - 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.
[edit] August
- August 24 — NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Neptune, after 8½ years journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 12 years.
[edit] September
- September 21 — Swedish general election: Sweden holds elections for the Riksdag.
[edit] October
- October 23 — Partial solar eclipse
[edit] November
- November 4 — Elections for the United States Congress and several state governorships.
[edit] Undated
- The 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil.
- The Royal Navy will take delivery of its new CVF aircraft carriers.
- 2014 U.S. Open to be held in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
- 2014 Ryder Cup golf tournament to be held in Gleneagles, Scotland
[edit] Major religious holidays
- February 1 — Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (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, also known as Ostara
- April 20 — Easter Sunday
- May 1 — Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
- June 21 — Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha
- August 1 — Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
- September 23 — Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon
- October 4 – Eid al-Adha
- November 1 — Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year
- December 21 — Winter solstice, also known as Yule
- December 25 — Christmas
[edit] 2014 in fiction
[edit] Computer and video games
- 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.
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- Mega Man VI and Mega Man VII are set in this year, and Mega Man: The Power Battle are set in the end of 2014.
[edit] Music
- The band God Dethroned, on their album The Toxic Touch made a song about events that are suppose to occur in 2014.Categpry:2010s
