2014
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2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Predicted events
March
April
- April 20 - Easter Sunday
- April 29 - Annular solar eclipse
June
- June 28 - 100th Anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
August
- August 24 - NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Neptune, after 8½ years journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 12 years.
September
- September 21 - Sweden general election, 2014: Sweden holds elections for the Riksdag.
October
- October 23 - Partial solar eclipse
November
- November 4 - Elections for the United States Congress and several state governorships
Unknown dates
- NASA's Dawn space probe scheduled to arrive at Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt
- ESAs Rosetta space probe scheduled to arrive at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- 2014 Winter Olympics (host city scheduled to be chosen in 2007)
- FIFA World Cup 2014 (host country scheduled to be chosen in 2008)
- 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in either Abuja, Nigeria, Glasgow, Scotland or Halifax, Canada
- Sometime this year, NASA is expected to launch the first of two Terrestrial Planet Finder space telescopes for the purposes of locating exoplanets.
- First manned flight of Crew Exploration Vehicle in earth orbit.
- New Caledonia will be allowed to hold a referendum on independence after this year.
- The construction of New Songdo City (Incheon, South Korea) is slated to be complete.
- Super Bowl XLVIII
- The United States rock band Nirvana is eligible for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- WrestleMania XXX
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