Clockwise from top-left: stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, carried out by Boko Haram; bundles of water inside of a C-17 Globemaster III in the War against the Islamic State; Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate during the Thai coup d'état; Pro-independence campaigners in the Scottish independence referendum; the 2014 Winter Olympics are held in Sochi, Russia; Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappears in the Indian Ocean while Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine; Crimea is annexed by Russia
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2014 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
2014 MMXIV
Ab urbe condita
2767
Armenian calendar
1463 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԳ
Assyrian calendar
6764
Baháʼí calendar
170–171
Balinese saka calendar
1935–1936
Bengali calendar
1421
Berber calendar
2964
British Regnal year
62 Eliz. 2 – 63 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2558
Burmese calendar
1376
Byzantine calendar
7522–7523
Chinese calendar
癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4711 or 4504 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4712 or 4505
Coptic calendar
1730–1731
Discordian calendar
3180
Ethiopian calendar
2006–2007
Hebrew calendar
5774–5775
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2070–2071
- Shaka Samvat
1935–1936
- Kali Yuga
5114–5115
Holocene calendar
12014
Igbo calendar
1014–1015
Iranian calendar
1392–1393
Islamic calendar
1435–1436
Japanese calendar
Heisei 26 (平成２６年)
Javanese calendar
1947–1948
Juche calendar
103
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4347
Minguo calendar
ROC 103 民國103年
Nanakshahi calendar
546
Thai solar calendar
2557
Tibetan calendar
阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2140 or 1759 or 987 — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 2141 or 1760 or 988
Unix time
1388534400 – 1420070399
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Calendar year
2014 was designated as:
International Year of Crystallography[1]
International Year of Family Farming[1]
International Year of Small Island Developing States[1]
International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People[1][2]
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