Arts and Entertainment
- January 14: Milan Fashion Week
- January 18: Paris Fashion Week
- February 9–February 19: 62nd annual Berlin International Film Festival
- February 17: London Fashion Week
- May 16–May 27: 65th annual Cannes Film Festival
- May 26: Favourite Loreen has triumphed for Sweden at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest (held in Baku, Azerbaijan), with her club track "Euphoria".
- August 29–September 8: 69th annual Venice Film Festival
- September 22–October 7: The 179th edition of Oktoberfest was held in Munich, Germany.
- November 11: The 19th edition of MTV Europe Music Awards was held in Frankfurt, Germany.
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“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)