2014: Main Events

 JANUARY
01: LATVIA - Joins the eurozone.
22: SWITZERLAND - Geneva to host an international conference to bring peace to Syria.
 

FEBRUARY
07-23: RUSSIA - Sochi hosts the XXII Winter Olympics.
No date set yet: EGYPT: Parliamentary elections (two months after voting on a new constitution)

MARCH
03-20: SOUTH AFRICA - Murder trial of Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius.

APRIL
05: AFGHANISTAN - Presidential election
23-24: BRAZIL - Sao Paolo hosts global conference on Internet governance.
27: VATICAN - Canonisation of popes John XXIII and John Paul II.
30: IRAQ - Legislative elections.
SOUTH AFRICA - General elections, dates to be announced.

MAY
22: EUROPE - European Parliament elections, until May 25 in certain countries.
INDIA - To hold legislative elections sometime in the second quarter of 2014.

JUNE
04-05: RUSSIA - Group of Eight (G8) summit in Sochi.
06: FRANCE - 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy.
12: BRAZIL - FIFA football World Cup opens in Sao Paolo.

JULY
05: BRITAIN - Start of Tour de France cycling race in Leeds, England, to finish on July 27 in Paris.
09: INDONESIA - Presidential election.
11: BOSNIA - 19th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Serb forces killed almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslims.

AUGUST
01: EUROPE - 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.
TURKEY - Presidential election - on either the 14th or 28th.
 

SEPTEMBER
01: GERMANY - 75th anniversary of the start of World War II, when German troops invaded Poland.
18: BRITAIN - Scottish referendum on independence from Great Britain.
No date set: NEW YORK - UN climate summit.

OCTOBER
05: BRAZIL - General elections.

NOVEMBER
04: UNITED STATES - Mid-term legislative elections (Congress and state governors).
14-15: AUSTRALIA - Group of 20 (G20) summit in Brisbane

DECEMBER
03-14: PERU - Lima hosts 195 countries for a summit on climate change.
31: AFGHANISTAN - Deadline for withdrawal of Nato forces.