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2014 (MMXIV) is a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year in the Common Era and Anno Domini designations; the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th of the 2010s. It is the current year in some parts of the world.
The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.[1]
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 – Latvia will officially adopt the euro currency and will become the eighteenth Eurozone country.
February
- February 7–23 – The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
March
- March 27 – Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) will reach perihelion.
April
- April 29 – An annular solar eclipse will occur.
May
- May 29 – Faye's Comet will reach perihelion.
June
- June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil.
- The Sky City skyscraper is planned for completion in Changsha, Hunan, China.
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 will be held.
- The first unmanned flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
November
- November 9 – The Catalan independence referendum will be held.
December
- December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom will 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 in 2014 due to economic constraints.[2]
- 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.
- The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to be published.[3]
- A commercial cure for baldness is predicted to become available.[4]
- JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched.[5]
- The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available.[6]
Deaths
Major religious holidays and observances
- January 6 – Christmas (Armenian Church)
- January 7 – Christmas (Eastern Christianity)
- January 31 – Chinese 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 20 – Easter
- May 1 – May Day
- May 13 – Vesak (Buddhism) [7]
- June 8 – Pentecost
- June 15 – All Saints' Day (Eastern Christianity)
- June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
- July 28 – Eid ul-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 17 – Hanukkah
- December 21 – Winter solstice
- December 25 – Christmas (Western Christianity)
In fiction
References
- ^ "United Nations Observances". United Nations. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
- ^ "ISuppli: Gear costs to derail Moore's Law in 2014". EE Times. June 16, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ^ "Preparations for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) enter final stage". IPCC. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ^ "Baldness cure could be on shelves in two years". Daily Telegraph. August 19, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ^ Leonard David (March 2, 2012). "Japan Eyes New Space Mission to Sample an Asteroid". Space.com. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ^ Jack Clark (July 10, 2012). "Memristors' one-year delay will hit IT in the wallet". ZDnet.com. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ^ http://www.abhayagiri.org/calendar/