The busy Google software engineers have added extra features to the Google Calendar which are not enabled by default. You need to go Calendar Labs 
and enable the ones that appeal to you. 
They recently added a Year View button (its on the right side of my calendar web page). Once you select the year and click the Go button a full year view shows up that looks like this.
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