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Jan 29th - Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
Feb 5th - Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
Feb 14th - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office
Feb 15th - Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock
Feb 21st - US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama
Feb 21st - 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded
Feb 22nd - Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
Feb 22nd - Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position
Feb 24th - Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time
Feb 27th - Republic of Crimea announces a referendum & ousts its regional government
Feb 27th - Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of the Ukraine
Feb 28th - Russia moves troops into the Crimea to protect its interests against Ukraine
Mar 17th - The Republic of Crimea is declared
Mar 18th - Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty
Mar 21st - Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation
Mar 22nd - Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
Mar 24th - Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea
Mar 26th - Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia
Mar 27th - UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
Mar 29th - Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia
Apr 3rd - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
Apr 6th - Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary
Apr 17th - Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins a fourth term as President of Algeria
May 4th - Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama
May 10th - The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election
May 13th - Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, is discovered north off the coast of Haiti
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May 21st - José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau
May 22nd - Royal Thai Armed Forces launch a coup d'état against the caretaker government of Thailand
May 25th - Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine
May 25th - Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania
May 26th - Narendra Modi becomes President of India
May 26th - The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra Leone
May 28th - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt
Jun 14th - Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland
Jun 15th - Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Colombia
Jun 23rd - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
Jul 1st - Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament
Jul 7th - Israel launches a "counter-terrorist operation" dubbed Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in the West Bank
Jul 9th - Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia
Jul 14th - The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops
Jul 14th - The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500
Jul 16th - Israel intensify strikes on Gaza
Jul 16th - Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria
Jul 24th - Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq
Jul 24th - Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel
Jul 28th - UN Security Council hold emergency meeting calling for an immediate and indefinite humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
Jul 30th - Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed
Jul 31st - The US agree to resupply arms to Israel - including rocket launchers, mortar rounds, grenades - despite condemnation of civilian casualties in Gaza
Aug 12th - Ebola outbreak death toll exceeds 1000
Sep 4th - Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
Sep 15th - Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland
Sep 15th - US President Obama will send 3000 troops to help combat spread of the Ebola virus, it is announced today
Sep 22nd - NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars
Sep 26th - World Health Organisations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest
Sep 27th - 57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan
Sep 29th - Ashraf Ghani becomes President of Afghanistan
Sep 30th - A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas
Oct 7th - Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa
Oct 9th - Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 12th - Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia
Oct 20th - Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia
Nov 3rd - One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
Nov 4th - The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
Nov 4th - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
Nov 9th - Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
Nov 11th - The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
Nov 15th - World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth
Nov 15th - The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case
Nov 16th - Klaus Iohannis wins the Romanian Presidential election
Nov 17th - The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
Nov 25th - Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
Nov 30th - Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
Dec 2nd - The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
Dec 3rd - Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
Dec 12th - UN climate change talks in Peru continue past scheduled time as negotiations continue to stall
Dec 14th - Shinzō Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party win re-election in Japan, retaining their two-thirds majority with coalition partner New Kōmeitō Party
Excerpted from http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2014
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