2014

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 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 – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league – Rugby Union

By place

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

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders - Internet

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions

2014 in other calendars

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
- Vikram Samvat	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 of 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

• April 29 – Annular solar eclipse.

May

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

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

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.
• Referendum on Scottish Independence to be held by the Scottish National Party
• Proposed launch of the Chandrayaan-2 lunar exploration mission.
• Proposed launch of the Astrobotic Technology moon mission.
• Proposed launch of the Puli Space Technologies moon mission.

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 over the course of the year.