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Events

January 25 - Columbia Mall Zumiez shooting
February 20 to March 26 - Crimea is invaded and annexed by Russia on the orders of Vladimir Putin, beginning the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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. Beginning of the War in Donbass.
April 13 - Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting
April 14 - 276 schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram.
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 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 - 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 29 - 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 7 - The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia find Nuon Chea, right-hand man of former dictator Pol Pot, guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the Khmer Rouge regime and sentence him to life in prison.
August 28 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected President of Turkey.
September 16 - Beginning of the Yemeni Civil War.
October 24 - 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.

Births

Victim births

July 19 - Hayden Umbenhower
November 8 - Mariah Woods

Deaths

Villain deaths

January 11 - Ariel Sharon
January 25 - Darion Aguilar
March 10 - Theresa Riggi
March 19 - Fred Phelps
March 31 - Charles Keating, Jr.
April 3 - Tommy Lynn Sells
May 23 - Elliot Rodger
May 25 - Wojciech Jaruzelski
August 21 - Robert Hansen
September 1 - Mukhtar Abu Zubair
September 12 - Ian Paisley
October 24 - Jaylen Fryberg
December 16 - Man Haron Monis

Victim deaths

July 13 - Conrad Roy
July 17 - Eric Garner
October 11 - Jennifer Laude
November 22 - Tamir Rice

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 * 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''.
+* 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.