2014

2014

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.

The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.

Events

January

• January 1 – Latvia officially adopts the Euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.

February

• February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.
• February 13 – Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for terminally ill patients of any age.
• February 22 – The Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office, replacing him with Oleksandr Turchynov, after days of civil unrest left around 100 people dead in Kiev.

March

March 8: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

• March 5 – Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severs diplomatic and political ties with Panama, accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.
• March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
• March 16 – A referendum on the status of Crimea is held.
• March 21 – Russia formally annexes Crimea after President Vladimir Putin signed a bill finalizing the annexation process.
• March 24 – During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada suspend Russia from the G8.
• March 27 – The United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 68/262, recognizing Crimea within Ukraine’s international borders and rejecting the validity of the 2014 Crimean referendum.
• March 31
  • The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.

Predicted and scheduled events

June

• June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil.

August

• 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 is scheduled to be held.

October

• October 31 – The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to be published.

December

• December 4 – The first unmanned flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
• 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 due to economic constraints.
• 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 the Smithsonian Institution if it should be returned to Earth intact.
• JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched.
• The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available.
• The Permanent Court of Arbitration is expected to rule on Philippines v. China.

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2014

Further information: Category:2014 deaths

January

Ariel Sharon

• January 5 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
• January 7 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• January 9
  • Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
  • Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (b. 1939)
• January 10 – Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
• January 11
  • Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
  • Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b. 1986)
• January 14 – Mae Young, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
• January 15 – John Dobson, American amateur astronomer (b. 1915)
• January 16 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese army officer (b. 1922)
• January 20 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
• January 23 – Riz Ortolani, Italian film composer (b. 1926)
• January 25 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
• January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer (b. 1939)
• January 27 – Pete Seeger, American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1919)
• January 31 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (b. 1921)

February

Shirley Temple

• February 1
  • Luis Aragonés, Spanish football player and coach (b. 1938)
  • Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1930)
• February 2 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b. 1967)
• February 3 – Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
• February 10
  • Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist (b. 1932)
  • Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
• February 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1924)
• February 12 – Sid Caesar, American actor (b. 1922)
• February 13 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football player and coach (b. 1937)
• February 14 – Tom Finney, British footballer (b. 1922)
• February 18 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
• February 23 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British pianist (b. 1903)
• February 24 – Harold Ramis, American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944)
• February 25 – Mário Coluna, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935)
• February 26 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (b. 1947)

March

Adolfo Suárez

• March 1 – Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
• March 9 – Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. c. 1957)
• March 12 – Věra Chytilová, Czech film director (b. 1929)
• March 13 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
• March 14 – Tony Benn, British politician and diarist (b. 1925)
• March 18 – Lucius Shepard, American writer (b. 1942)
• March 19 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (b. 1929)
• March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
• March 21
  • Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East (b. 1933)
  • James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
• March 23 – Adolfo Suárez, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
• March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician (b. 1929)
• March 31 – Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (b. 1955)

April

• April 1 – Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)

Major religious holidays and observances

• January 6 – Christmas (Armenian Church)
• January 7 – Christmas (Eastern Christianity)
• January 31 – Lunar 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 14–22 – Passover
• April 20 – Easter
• May 1 – May Day
• May 13 – Vesak (celebrated on May 14 and May 15 in some places)
• 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 16–24 – Hanukkah
• December 21 – Winter solstice
• December 25 – Christmas (Western Christianity)

In fiction

Main article: Works of fiction set in 2014