2016

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

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

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.^[3]
Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, will launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists.^[4]
Completion of the 5000 Insect and Other Arthropod Genome Initiative.^[5]
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.^[6]^[7]
Indian human spaceflight.^[8]
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,^[9] if the contract is not breached, will have lasted 10 years by then, making it one of the longest running sitcoms in television history.^[9]
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.^[10]

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

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".