2016

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2016 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2016 MMXVI
Ab urbe condita	2769
Armenian calendar	1465 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6766
Baháʼí calendar	172–173
Balinese saka calendar	1937–1938
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 (Wood Goat) 4713 or 4506     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4714 or 4507
Coptic calendar	1732–1733
Discordian calendar	3182
Ethiopian calendar	2008–2009
Hebrew calendar	5776–5777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2072–2073
- Shaka Samvat	1937–1938
- Kali Yuga	5116–5117
Holocene calendar	12016
Igbo calendar	1016–1017
Iranian calendar	1394–1395
Islamic calendar	1437–1438
Japanese calendar	Heisei 28 (平成２８年)
Javanese calendar	1949–1950
Juche calendar	105
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4349
Minguo calendar	ROC 105 民國105年
Nanakshahi calendar	548
Thai solar calendar	2559
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 2142 or 1761 or 989     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2143 or 1762 or 990
Unix time	1451606400 – 1483228799

2016 (MMXVI) will be a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

February

• February — Super Bowl L

April

• 100th Anniversary of The Easter Rising

May

• May 9 — Transit of Mercury

June

• 2016 European Football Championship

November

• November 8 — United States Presidential and Congressional elections

December

• December 11 — Bicentennial of the state of Indiana

Unknown dates

• 2016 Summer Olympics — Host city to be chosen in 2009. Montreal, Canada will make a run at it, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the prior Olympics of 1976 that were held in the city. The United States is also expected to be the front-runner for the games choosing Chicago . The city of Tokyo is Japan's bid to host the event. The Indian capital of New Delhi will also be bidding for the event. Other frontrunners are considered to be Bangkok in Thailand and Dubai in the UAE.
• The right for the US 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.
• Start of unmanned test flights of the Lunar Surface Access Module for future U.S. lunar landings.
• ITER, an international scientific experiment (2nd largest worldwide ever) into developing nuclear fusion as an energy source is set to boot up for the first time
• Sinn Féin predict this is when a united Ireland will come about.
• A satellite signal from Pluto, containing pictures of the dwarf planet, is received.
• Former President Gerald Ford Presidential Dollar Coin Program coin becomes issued.

2016 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Games set in 2016:
  • Metal Gear Acid (2004)
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)

Film

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

Literature

• Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka (2005): On January 7, an influenza subtype H17N22 outbreak infects 23,442 Canadians.
• Tarragona 2016 http://tarragona2016.blogspot.com/

Television series

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The Third Impact occurs, killing all humanity except two survivors.

• In an episode of Phil of the Future, Phil states that chores were banned in the year 2016.

Media franchises

• .hack: The World R:2 game is released.

External links

• 2016 Calendar at Internet Accuracy Project