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2016 (MMXVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
2016 by topic: |
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Politics |
Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states |
Science and technology |
Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight |
Sports |
Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league |
By place |
Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States |
Other topics |
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Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works and introductions categories |
Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
Gregorian calendar | 2016 MMXVI
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Ab urbe condita | 2769 |
Armenian calendar | 1465 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ |
Bahá'í calendar | 172 – 173 |
Buddhist calendar | 2560 |
Coptic calendar | 1732 – 1733 |
Ethiopian calendar | 2008 – 2009 |
Hebrew calendar | 5776 – 5777 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2071 – 2072 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1938 – 1939 |
- Kali Yuga | 5117 – 5118 |
Holocene calendar | 12016 |
Iranian calendar | 1394 – 1395 |
Islamic calendar | 1437 – 1438 |
Japanese calendar | Heisei
28
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- Imperial Year | Kōki 2676 (皇紀2676年) |
Julian calendar | 2061 |
Korean calendar | 4349 |
Thai solar calendar | 2559 |
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2016 was designated as:
- International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
- International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2]
Events[]
January[]
- January 3 – Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.[3]
- January 8 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.[4]
- January 12 – Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
- January 16
- The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately.[5]
- 30 people are killed and 56 injured in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, targeting a hotel and a nearby restaurant. A siege occurs and 176 hostages are released afterwards, by government forces.
- January 28 – The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.[6]
February[]
- February 7 – North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into space, condemned as a long-range ballistic missile test.[7]
- February 12 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.[8]
March[]
- March 14 – The ESA and Roscosmos launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.[9]
- March 21
- The International Criminal Court finds former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time the ICC convicted someone of sexual violence.[10]
- Barack Obama, visits Cuba, marking the first time a sitting US president has visited the island nation since president Calvin Coolidge visited in 1928.[11]
- March 24 – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War.[12]
April[]
- April 2 – Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh kill at least 193 people, which becomes the heaviest breach of the 1994 ceasefire.[13]
- April 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publish a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate Mossack Fonseca that provides detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors including noted personalities and heads of state.[14]
May[]
- May 19 – EgyptAir Flight 804 with 66 people on board crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo.[15]
- May 30 – Former Chadian President Hissène Habré is sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his tenure from 1982 to 1990, the first time an African Union-backed court convicted a former ruler of a country within its jurisdiction.[16]
June[]
- June 1 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened following two decades of construction work.[17]
- June 23 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union.[18]
- June 28 – ISIL is suspected to be responsible for attacking Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, killing 45 and injuring around 230.[19]
July[]
- July 1 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.[20]
- July 5 – NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.[21]
- July 6 – The app Pokémon Go is released on smartphones, breaking numerous records in terms of sales and revenue.[22]
- July 12 – The Philippines wins the arbitration case they filed at the Permanent Court of Arbitration regarding the legality of China's "Nine-Dash Line" claim over the South China Sea under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.[23][24]
- July 14 – 86 people are killed in a truck attack in Nice, during Bastille Day celebrations.[25]
- July 15-16 – In Turkey, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces that organized themselves as the Peace at Home Council, unsuccessfully stages a coup against the state institutions, resulting in the deaths of at least two hundred and forty and the triggering of a series of unprecedented purges throughout the country.[26]
- July 22 – The final videocassette recorder is manufactured by the Japanese company Funai.[27]
- July 26 – Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.[28]
August[]
- August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first time in a South American nation[29]
- August 31 – The Brazilian Senate votes (61–20) to impeach the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The Vice President of Brazil, Michel Temer, who had assumed the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of Brazil during Rousseff's suspension, takes office for the remainder of her term.[30]
September[]
- September 3 – The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally joined the Paris global climate agreement.[31]
- September 8 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.[32][33]
- September 9 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".[34]
- September 28
- International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels.[35]
- [[Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere|Global Template:CO2 levels]] exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels.[36] A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history.[37]
- September 30 – Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh with a combined value of $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.[38]
October[]
- October 13 – The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.[39]
- October 15 – 150 nations meet at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) summit in Rwanda and agree to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as an amendment to the Montreal Protocol.[40]
November[]
- November 2 – The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in American sports history.[41]
- November 8 – Businessman and television personality Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States as a Republican after running a campaign widely characterized as populist.[42]
- November 24 – The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the Colombian conflict.[43]
December[]
- December 19 – Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, is assassinated in Ankara.[44]
- December 22 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.[45]
- December 23 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2334 condemning "Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967".[46]
Births[]
- February 5 – Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, heir apparent to the throne of Bhutan
- March 2 – Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne
- April 19 – Prince Alexander, Duke of Södermanland
Deaths[]
Main article: Deaths in 2016
Further information: Category:2016 deaths
Deaths |
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January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December |
January[]
- January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
- January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
- January 6
- January 7
- January 8 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
- January 10
- January 14
- January 15 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
- January 18
- January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- January 23 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
- January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
- January 26
- January 28
- January 29
- January 30
- January 31 – Terry Wogan, Irish-British broadcaster (b. 1938)
February[]
- February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
- February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (b. 1952)
- February 4
- February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
- February 13
- February 15 – George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
- February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the UN (b. 1922)
- February 17
- February 19
- February 22 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (b. 1913)
- February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
- February 24 – Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943)
- February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
- February 28 – George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
- February 29
March[]
- March 5
- March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
- March 8
- March 9 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b. 1944)
- March 10
- March 11
- Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
- March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American Nobel mathematician (b. 1923)
- March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
- March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
- March 17
- March 18
- March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
- March 21 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936)
- March 22 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician (b. 1969)
- March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
- March 24
- March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
- March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
- March 31
April[]
- April 2
- April 3
- April 4 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
- April 6 – Merle Haggard, American country singer (b. 1937)
- April 8 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (b. 1917)
- April 12
- April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
- April 17 – Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21 – Prince, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1958)
- April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932)
- April 24
- April 25 – Martin Gray, Polish writer (b. 1922)
- April 26 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
- April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
- April 30 – Harry Kroto, English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)
May[]
- May 1 – Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (b. 1932)
- May 2 – Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman (b. 1947)
- May 4
- May 5
- May 6 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (b. 1927)
- May 8 – William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
- May 10 – Kang Young-hoon, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
- May 16 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
- May 17
- May 19
- May 21
- May 22 – Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
- May 26
- May 28
- May 31
June[]
- June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
- June 3
- June 5 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
- June 6
- June 7 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
- June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
- June 10
- June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
- June 12 – George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
- June 16 – Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
- June 18 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
- June 19
- June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
- June 23
- June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec, French writer (b. 1959)
- June 27
- June 28
- June 30 – Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)
July[]
- July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (b. 1923)
- July 2
- Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1939)
- Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (b. 1930)
- Patrick Manning, 2-Time Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
- Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
- Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Nobel writer and political activist (b. 1928)
- Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedian and writer (b. 1963)
- July 4 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director (b. 1940)
- July 6 – Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
- July 8
- July 9 – Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
- July 12 – Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician and alleged war criminal (b. 1958)
- July 13
- July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1950)
- July 16 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (b. 1941)
- July 19
- July 22 – Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian scientist (b. 1921)
- July 23 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, 2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
- July 25
- July 27
- July 28
- July 30 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (b. 1925)
- July 31
August[]
- August 1 – Queen Anne of Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael of Romania (b. 1923)
- August 2
- August 3 – Chris Amon, New Zealand motor racing driver (b. 1943)
- August 9 – Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (b. 1951)
- August 13
- August 14
- August 15
- August 16
- August 17 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (b. 1923)
- August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)
- August 19
- August 22
- August 23
- August 24
- August 25
- August 26 – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
- August 28
- August 29 – Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933)
- August 30
September[]
- September 2
- September 3 – Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, French mathematician (b. 1957)
- September 5
- September 7
- September 8
- September 11 – Alexis Arquette, American actress (b. 1969)
- September 12 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet (b. 1930)
- September 13 – Jonathan Riley-Smith, English medieval historian (b. 1938)
- September 16
- September 17
- September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
- September 24
- September 25
- September 26 – Herschell Gordon Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, 9th President and 8th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- September 29 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino politician (b. 1945)
- September 30 – Trịnh Thị Ngọ, Vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931)
October[]
- October 1 – David Herd, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
- October 2 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
- October 4 – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and author (b. 1940)
- October 5 – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
- October 8 – Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
- October 9
- October 11 – Teatao Teannaki, 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936)
- October 13
- October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
- October 16
- October 20
- October 23
- October 24
- October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
- October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915)
- October 28 – Nicholas Brathwaite, 3rd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1925)
- October 29
- October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921)
November[]
- November 2 – Oleg Popov, Russian clown (b. 1930)
- November 5 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982)
- November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
- November 7
- November 11
- November 12 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
- November 13
- November 14 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (b. 1913)
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17 – Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
- November 18 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (b. 1920)
- November 20
- November 23 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)
- November 24
- November 25
- Fidel Castro, 16th Prime Minister and 17th President of Cuba (b. 1926)
- Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945)
- David Hamilton, British photographer (b. 1933)
- November 27 – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
- November 28
- November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925)
- Date unknown – James Joseph Dresnok, American defector to North Korea (b. 1941)
December[]
- December 2 – Sammy Lee, American Olympic diver (b. 1920)
- December 4 – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934)
- December 5
- December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923)
- December 7
- December 8
- December 10 – Esma Redžepova, Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943)
- December 12 – Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (b. 1932)
- December 13
- December 14
- December 16 – Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1945)
- December 17 – Henry Heimlich, American physician (b. 1920)
- December 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917)
- December 20 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (b. 1920)
- December 22 – Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian long distance runner (b. 1944)
- December 23
- December 24
- Richard Adams, British author (b. 1920)
- Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948)
- Liz Smith, British actress (b. 1921)
- December 25
- December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
- December 27
- Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer (b. 1956)
- Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 12th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
- December 28
- Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, President of Uruguay (b. 1925)
- Michel Déon, French writer (b. 1919)
- Debbie Reynolds, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1932)
- December 29
- December 31
Nobel Prizes[]
- Chemistry – Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart
- Economics – Oliver Hart, Bengt R. Holmström
- Literature – Bob Dylan
- Peace – Juan Manuel Santos
- Physics – John M. Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane, David J. Thouless
- Physiology or Medicine – Yoshinori Ohsumi
See also[]
- List of international years
Genealogical events[]
People of the year 2016 at Familypedia
23 people were born in 2016
0 children were born to the 8 women born in 2016
73 people died in 2016
388 people lived in 2016
Events of the year 2016 at Familypedia
10 people were married in 2016.
Joined with | |
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Jinger Nicole Duggar (1993) | Jeremy Joseph Vuolo (1987) |
Daniel John (Danny) Dyer (1977-) | Joanne Mas (living) |
Fernando Gómez-Acebo y Borbón (1974-) | Mónica Martín Luque (1975-) + Nadia Halamandari (1975-) |
Ciara Princess Harris (1985) | Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn (1983)+Russell Carrington Wilson (1988) |
Bryan William Lourd (1960) | Carrie Frances Fisher (1956-2016)+ Bruce Bozzi Jr. (1966) |
Kirsty McFarland (1988) | Stanley Michel (1986) |
Stanley Michel (1986) | Kirsty McFarland (1988) |
Gian-Carlo Pallavicini (1967-) | Pauline Haniel (c1985-) |
Guillaume de Dampierre (1985-) | Alix de Ligne (1984-) |
Alix de Ligne (1984-) | Guillaume de Dampierre (1985-) |
There were 0 military battles in 2016.
See also[]
External links[]
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