2016

This article is about the year 2016.

For the film 2016 see 2016: Obama's America.

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

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Bangladesh - 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 – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

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
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	1016–1017
Iranian calendar	1394–1395
Islamic calendar	1437–1438
Japanese calendar	Heisei 28 (平成28年)
Juche calendar	105
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
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 the 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.
• Planned completion of the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, in China.

December

• December 31 - Current UN-Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's term of office will expire.

Date unknown

• The right of U.S. forces to use Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands as a military base will end, but there will be a provision for an automatic extension for them to remain for another 20 years.
• 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.
• 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.
• Possibility of Indian human spaceflight.
• The economy of the People's Republic of China will overtake the economy of the United States and become the world's largest as measured with purchasing power parity adjusted GDP according to the IMF.
• Philippines shift to digital TV

In fiction

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".
• The second season of Young Justice entitled Young Justice: Invasion, starts on January 1, 2016 after a five-year gap from the previous season.

Film

• Atlas Shrugged: Part I is set in 2016.
• 2016: Obama's America is a predicted retrospective from the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's second term.
• In Ghostbusters II a woman named Elaine appears on Dr Peter Venkman's show "World of the Psychic" and claims an alien told her that the world would end on February 14, 2016.
• The Dark Knight Rises likely takes place in this year considering if The Dark Knight is set 8 years earlier in 2008. However, it is not known when exactly the films take place.

Computer and video games

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and MW3. According to the game, WW3 breaks out in the latter half of this year.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. The story begins in 2016, but ends in 2017.