2016

This article is about the year 2016.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2013 2014 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2018 2019

2016 by topic:

News by month

Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec

Arts

Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

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 – Rugby Union

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

Awards – Law – Religious leaders - Internet

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions

2016 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2016 MMXVI
Ab urbe condita	2769
Armenian calendar	1465 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6766
Bahá'í calendar	172–173
Bengali calendar	1423
Berber calendar	2966
British Regnal year	64 Eliz. 2 – 65 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2560
Burmese calendar	1378
Byzantine calendar	7524–7525
Chinese calendar	乙未年十一月廿二日 (4652/4712-11-22) — to — 丙申年十二月初三日 (4653/4713-12-3)
Coptic calendar	1732–1733
Ethiopian calendar	2008–2009
Hebrew calendar	5776–5777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2072–2073
- Shaka Samvat	1938–1939
- Kali Yuga	5117–5118
Holocene calendar	12016
Iranian calendar	1394–1395
Islamic calendar	1437–1438
Japanese calendar	Heisei 28 (平成28年)
Korean calendar	4349
Minguo calendar	ROC 105 民國105年
Thai solar calendar	2559
Unix time	1451606400–1483228799

2016 (MMXVI) will be a leap year starting on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It will be the 2016th year of Common Era (or Anno Domini), the 16th of the 3rd millennium and 21st century, and the 7th of the 2010s.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• Launch of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

February

• February 26 - March 6 – The II Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held in Lillehammer, Norway.

May

• May 9 – Transit of Mercury

August

• NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter.
• August 5 - August 21 – 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

September

• September 7 - September 18 – 2016 Summer Paralympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date unknown

• The right for the U.S. forces to use Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands as a military base will end at this year, but there will be a provision for an automatic extension for another 20 years for the US forces to remain stationed on the island.
• Falling costs mean that the average onshore wind farm will be competitive with natural gas-fired power generation.
• Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, will launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists.
• Completion of the 5000 Insect and Other Arthropod Genome Initiative.
• The world's largest suspension bridge – the Strait of Messina Bridge – will be completed, connecting Sicily and mainland Italy.
• Production from the new twin-platform Clair Ridge project to the north of the existing platform is expected to begin.
• Indian human spaceflight.
• The long running television series, South Park, will finish its current contract, and possibly will end. First aired in 1997, South Park, already cable's longest running animated series, if the contract is not breached, will have lasted 19 years by then, making it one of the longest running sitcoms in television history.
• Estimated completion date for the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometer in height.
• The Chinese gross domestic product measured by purchasing power parity is estimated by International Monetary Fund to be the largest in the world.

In fiction

Film

• Ghostbusters II (1989): According to a guest on Peter Venkman's talk show, the end of the world will occur on February 14.

Television series

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The controversial completion of the top-secret Human Instrumentality Project brings about the apocalyptic Third Impact, merging all human individuals into a single consummate being.
• In an episode of Phil of the Future, Phil states that chores were banned in the year 2016.
• Day 8 of the TV series 24 takes place in the year 2016.
• In the FlashForward episode, "The Garden of Forking Paths", Mark Benford discovers on Dyson Frost's chalkboard that December 12, 2016 was ambiguously labeled, "The End".

Computer and video games

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney The story begins in 2016, but ends in 2017.