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Millennium: 3rd millennium
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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 and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

2016 has been designated as the International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]

Events

January

Predicted and scheduled events

March

May

  • May 9 – A transit of Mercury will occur. Full transit will be visible in South America, Eastern North America, Western Europe, and a partial transit everywhere else except Australia and far eastern Asia.[4]

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July

August

September

November

December

Date unknown

Deaths


January

See also

References

  1. ^ "United Nations Observances: International Years". United Nations. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "ESA - Robotic Exploration of Mars: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  3. ^ "Russian, EU Space Agencies Propose to Delay Joint Mission to Mars". September 18, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  4. ^ "The Transit of Mercury on 2016 May 9". Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  5. ^ "Juno Mission to Jupiter" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
  6. ^ "Rio 2016 Olympic Games". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  8. ^ "Private Dream Chaser Space Plane to Launch 1st Orbital Flight in 2016".
  9. ^ "Chagossians in Seychelles seek to meet UK contracted experts on resettlement study". August 5, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  10. ^ "'Space hotel' plan unveiled in Russia". BBC. September 30, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  11. ^ Afanasieva, Dasha; Heneghan, Tom (March 10, 2014). "Orthodox Churches Will Hold First Ecumenical Council In 1,200 Years In Istanbul". The Huffington Post.
  12. ^ "Communiqué of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, At the Phanar, March 9, 2014".