Editing 2014

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== Events ==
* January 25 - [[Darion Aguilar|Columbia Mall Zumiez shooting]]
* February 20 to March 26 - Crimea is invaded and annexed by Russia on the orders of [[Vladimir Putin]]. Beginning of Russia's war with Ukraine.
* February 23 - Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] is ousted from office in the aftermath of the Euromaiden protests.
* April 7 - The [[Donetsk People's Republic]] is declared.
* April 13 - [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.|Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting]]
* April 14 - 276 schoolgirls are abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria by [[Boko Haram]].
* April 27 - The [[Luhansk People's Republic]] is declared.
* May 5 - [[Azov Battalion]] is founded.
* May 13 - Former Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] is sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery.
* May 16 - Beginning of the Second Libyan Civil War.
* May 21 - The [[2014 Taipei Metro Attack|Metro attack]] is perpetrated in Taipei by [[Cheng Chieh]].
* May 22 - The [[National Council for Peace and Order]] (NCPO), lead by [[Prayuth Chan-o-cha]], seizes power in Thailand as part of a ''coup d'état''. The [[People's Democratic Reform Committee]] is disbanded.
* May 23 - [[Elliot Rodger|Isla Vista shootings]]
* May 26 - [[Narendra Modi]] is elected Prime Minister of India.
* May 31 - The Slender Man stabbing: [[Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier]] lure their best friend, 12-year old Payton Leutner, into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin and stab her 19 times. Leutner manages to survive the attack.
* June 2 - The [[Palestinian Unity Government]] is established by [[Hamas]] and [[Fatah]] in an attempt to foster peace between the two organizations.
* June 8 - [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] is elected President of Egypt.
*June 18 - [[Timothy Crump]] is stabbed to death by Noel Estevez, from which Timothy harassed and stalked since 2013.
* June 29 - The [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] declares itself to be a worldwide caliphate, claiming global authority over all Muslims worldwide. Their leader, [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], is formally recognized as Caliph.
* June 30 - The [[Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade]] pledges allegiance to Islamic State.
* July 17 - Eric Garner dies after being choked by police officer [[Daniel Pantaleo]].
*August 2 - [[Lance Mason]] is arrested for domestic violence.
* August 3 to 8 - [[Sinjar Massacre]]: [[The Islamic State|ISIL]] captures the city of Sinjar in Iraq. Over the course of five days, Yazidis in Sinjar are killed en masse, with an estimated 5,000 being killed. The massacre marks the beginning of ISIL's campaign of [[genocide]] against the Yazidis.
* August 7 - The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) finds both [[Nuon Chea]] and [[Khieu Samphan]] guilty of [[crimes against humanity]] committed during the [[Khmer Rouge]] regime and sentences them both to life in prison.
* August 28 - [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] is elected President of Turkey.
* September 16 - Beginning of the Yemeni Civil War.
*October 20 - [[Martin Rouleau]], a terrorist ran over and killed Warrent officer Patrice Vincent and injured one Canadian Forces member , then later he started in a car chase which ended up with crash and later on police shot and killed Roleau. 
*October 22 - [[Michael Zehaf-Bibeau]] shot and killed Canadian Forces member Corporal Nathan Cirllio at War Memorial in Ottawa, then stormed the Parliament building where he was later killed by security forces.
* October 24 - [[Jaylen Fryberg|Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting]]
* October 31 - [[Blaise Compaoré]] steps down as President of Burkina Faso.
* December 4 - [[Yaser Abdel Said]] is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
* December 5 - [[Keith Farnham]] pleads guilty to possession of child pornography.
* December 23 - [[Luka Magnotta]] is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the [[murder]] of Jun Lin.
* December 26 - [[Christine Weston Chandler]] commits vandalism while protesting Sonic Boom, all because Sonic's new design in it gave him blue arms. She went on to deface various pieces of Sonic Boom merchandise at a GameStop location.

== Births ==

=== Victim births ===
* January 4 - Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
*July 14 - Sherin Matthews
*July 19 - Hayden Umbenhower 
* November 8 - Mariah Woods

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* January 11 - [[Ariel Sharon]]
* January 25 - [[Darion Aguilar]]
* February 13 - [[Eric Paul Engel]]
* March 10 - [[Theresa Riggi]]
* March 19 - [[Fred Phelps]]
* March 31 - [[Charles Keating, Jr.]]
* April 3 - [[Tommy Lynn Sells]]
*May 9 - [[Zoran Milenković]]
* May 12 - [[Keith Luke]]
* May 23 - [[Elliot Rodger]]
* May 25 - [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]
*June 18 - [[Timothy Crump]]
* July 4 - [[Gerald Robinson]]
* August 21 - [[Robert Hansen]]
* September 1 - [[Mukhtar Abu Zubair]]
*September 11 - [[Kendall Francois]]
* September 12 - [[Ian Paisley]]
* October 4 - [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]
*October 20 - [[Martin Colture-Roleau]]
*October 22 - [[Michael Zehaf-Bibeau]]
* October 23 - [[Ghulam Azam]]
* October 24 - [[Jaylen Fryberg]]
* November 4 - [[Carl Herold]]
* December 16 - [[Man Haron Monis]]
* December 20 - [[Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*January 13 - Grace Ford
*January 25 - Victims of the [[Darion Aguilar|Columbia Mall Zumiez Shooting]]:
**Brianna Benlolo
**Tyler Johnson
*April 13 - Victims of the [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.|Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting]]:
**William Lewis Corporon
**Reat Griffin Underwood
**Terri LaManno
*May 21 - Victims of the [[Cheng Chieh|Taipei Metro Attack]]:
**Chang Cheng-han
**Hsieh Ching-yun
**Pan Pi-chu
**Lee Tsui-yun
*May 23 - George Chen, Chengyaun "James" Hong, Weihan "David" Wang, Katherine Cooper, Christopher Martinez, and Veronika Weiss
*July - Colton Turner
*July 13 - Conrad Roy
*July 17 - Eric Garner
*July 26 - Aiwa Matsuo
*October 11 - Jennifer Laude
*October 20 - Patrice Vincent
*October 22 - Nathan Cirillo
*October 24 - Zoe Galasso , Gia Soriano, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit and Andrew Fryberg
*November 13 - Danika Perrin 
*November 22 - Tamir Rice
*December 20 - Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu