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2014 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. It was marked by the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Aug 11, 2014 · A comprehensive list of the most important and memorable events that occurred in 2014, from the Ebola outbreak to the Ice Bucket Challenge. Learn about the highlights and lowlights of the year 2014 in politics, sports, entertainment, science, and more.
Browse the calendar of historical events that happened in 2014, from sports, politics, music, science, and more. Find out what happened on any date in 2014 with On This Day.
- Ukrainian Revolution - 18 February. Successive governments in Ukraine had sought closer relations with the European Union but had been hindered by the links of many in power to the Kremlin.
- Russia annexes Crimea - 27 February. Almost as soon as the dust began to settle from the Maidan revolution, strangely uniformed armed men began appearing in Crimea, a peninsula considered by most UN members to be part of Ukraine but the site of a Russian base.
- MH370 vanishes - 8 March. When Malaysian Airlines flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing took off at around 12.42am, nothing had occurred to indicate anything was wrong.
- Gangnam Style reaches 2 billion views on YouTube - 1 June. The K-pop single, by South Korean musician Psy, had been released in July 2012 and quickly swept dancefloors around the world.
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- Ebola outbreak. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa started quietly but soon spread across the porous borders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to become a full-blown epidemic.
- Malaysia airlines disasters. In what has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people onboard on March 8 while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Malaysia.
- The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Protests erupted nationwide after a grand jury decided in late November not to indict white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the shooting death of unarmed teen Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
- The rise of ISIS. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria emerged as the terror successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq. ISIS has overrun huge areas of Iraq and Syria, raising concerns that its radical ideology will spread across the Middle East.
In our annual series of year-end lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad.
2014 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, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.
