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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]

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]

• April 29 – Annular solar eclipse.

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]

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