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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
- March 14 – The ESA and Roscosmos plan to launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.[2] It was originally scheduled to be launched on January 7, but in September 2015 the mission was postponed.[3]
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]
June
- June 10–July 10 – The UEFA Euro 2016 men's football championship will be held in France.
July
August
- August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[6]
September
- September 3 – NASA plans to launch the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
- China plans to complete the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope.[7]
November
- November 1 – Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to launch Dream Chaser, a privately built spaceplane on an unmanned debut mission.[8]
December
- December 31 – The last remaining American, British and Australian troops will withdraw from Afghanistan.
Date unknown
- The right of the United States Armed Forces to use Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands as a military base will end, but there will be a provision for an automatic 20-year extension of their lease.[9]
- Orbital Technologies, a Russian private spaceflight company, plans to launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists in 2016.[10]
- The Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church is planned to take place in Istanbul.[11][12]
Deaths
January
See also
References
- ^ "United Nations Observances: International Years". United Nations. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ "ESA - Robotic Exploration of Mars: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ "Russian, EU Space Agencies Propose to Delay Joint Mission to Mars". September 18, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
- ^ "The Transit of Mercury on 2016 May 9". Retrieved June 7, 2012.
- ^ "Juno Mission to Jupiter" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Olympic Games". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ "The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Project". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ "Private Dream Chaser Space Plane to Launch 1st Orbital Flight in 2016".
- ^ "Chagossians in Seychelles seek to meet UK contracted experts on resettlement study". August 5, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ "'Space hotel' plan unveiled in Russia". BBC. September 30, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
- ^ Afanasieva, Dasha; Heneghan, Tom (March 10, 2014). "Orthodox Churches Will Hold First Ecumenical Council In 1,200 Years In Istanbul". The Huffington Post.
- ^ "Communiqué of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, At the Phanar, March 9, 2014".