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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.

January 1 – Latvia officially adopts the euro currency and becomes the eighteenth Eurozone country.

February 7–23 – The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
February 11– The Day We Fight Back, a protest against mass surveillance, including [EFF]], Mozilla and Reddit.

August 16–28 – 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 travelling for over eight years. New Horizons is scheduled to reach its mission target, Pluto, in 2015.

September 18 – The Scottish independence referendum is scheduled to be held.
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.

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]
JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched.^[4]
The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available.^[5]

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 player (b. 1986)

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 ===February===
 * [[February 7]]&ndash;[[February 23|23]] &ndash; The [[2014 Winter Olympics]] will be held in [[Sochi]], [[Russia]].
+* [[February 11]]&ndash; [[The Day We Fight Back]], a protest against mass surveillance, including [EFF]], [[Mozilla]] and [[Reddit]].
 === June ===