2014
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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 |
| 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 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 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) 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.
The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and the International Year of Crystallography.[1]
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Predicted and scheduled events [edit]
February [edit]
- February 7 – February 23 – 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
March [edit]
- March 7 – 16 – The 2014 Winter Paralympics will be held in Sochi, Russia
- March 27 – Next perihelion of Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes).
April [edit]
May [edit]
- May 29 – Next perihelion of Faye's Comet.
June [edit]
- June 12 - July 13 – 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil.
July [edit]
- July 24 – August 3 - The 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.
August [edit]
- August 16 – August 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 8½ years and journey on to Pluto. It will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 12 years.
September [edit]
- September 18 – The Scottish independence referendum will be held.
- Scheduled launch of the unmanned Exploration Flight Test 1 of the Orion.
December [edit]
- December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom will officially withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
Date unknown [edit]
- The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Championship to be held in Bangladesh.
- The predicted end of Moore's Law due to economic limits.[2]
- 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.[3]
- A cure for baldness is predicted to be available.[4]
- Proposed launch of the Puli Space Technologies moon mission.[5]
- JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched this year.[6]
- Google Glass and the Oculus Rift will be available to the public.[7][8]
- The first products using memristor technology are expected to become available.[9]
Major holidays and dates [edit]
- January 6 – Christmas (Celebrated by the Armenian Church)
- January 7 – Christmas (Eastern Christianity)
- February 1 – Imbolc (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
- March 4 – Shrove Tuesday
- March 5 – Ash Wednesday
- 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 (Western Christianity)
In fiction [edit]
Film [edit]
- Moon Child (2003)
- The Flash movie EPIC 2014 concludes in this year.
Television [edit]
- In the Supernatural episode "The End", the angel Zachariah sends Dean Winchester to this year to convince him to be a host for Michael.
Computer and video games [edit]
- 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.
- Black Ops 2 (2012). Raul Menendez starts campaign for Cordis Die in June 22
References [edit]
- ^ "United Nations Observances". United Nations. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4083550/ISuppli-Gear-costs-to-derail-Moore-s-Law-in-2014
- ^ IPCC website
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9485807/Baldness-cure-could-be-on-shelves-in-two-years.html
- ^ "Our Mission". Puli Space Technologies. 2010-9-4. Retrieved 2012-1-29.
- ^ Leonard David (2012-3-2). "Japan Eyes New Space Mission to Sample an Asteroid". Space.com. Retrieved 2012-8-7.
- ^ http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/sergey-brin-hopes-to-bring-google-glass-to-market-in-2014/
- ^ http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-01/ces-2013-oculus-rifts-virtual-reality-headset-freaking-amazing
- ^ Jack Clark (July 10, 2012). "Memristors' one-year delay will hit IT in the wallet". ZDDnet. Cloud Watch.
