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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:
- International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
- International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by The International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2]
Events
January
- January 3 – Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabia ends its diplomatic relations with Iran.[3]
- January 6 – North Korea conducts its fourth underground nuclear test, prompting international condemnation.
- January 8 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison.[4]
- January 16 – The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately.[5]
- January 28 – The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of Zika virus.[6]
February
- February 7 – North Korea launches a long-range rocket into space, violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.[7]
- February 12 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches.[8]
March
- March 13 – March 2016 Ankara bombing: Ankara car bomb kills at least 32.[9]
- March 14 – The ESA and Roscosmos launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.[10]
- March 22 – Explosions occur at Brussels Airport and the metro system, killing at least 34 people and injuring at least 198 others.
Predicted and scheduled events
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.[11]
June
- June 1 – Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel, is scheduled to be opened.[12]
- June 23 – United Kingdom will hold an in out referendum on membership of the EU.
July
August
- August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[14]
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.[15]
November
- November 1 – Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to launch Dream Chaser, a privately built spaceplane on an unmanned debut mission.[16]
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.[17]
- Orbital Technologies, a Russian private spaceflight company, plans to launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists in 2016.[18]
- The Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church is planned to take place in Istanbul.[19][20]
Births
Deaths
January
- January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
- January 2
- Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
- Sheikh Nimr, Saudi Arabian Shia religious leader (b. 1959)
- January 3
- Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
- January 4 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
- January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
- January 6 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
- January 7
- Princess Ashraf of Iran (b. 1919)
- André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
- January 8 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
- January 10 – David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
- January 14
- René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
- Alan Rickman, English actor and director (b. 1946)
- January 18
- Glenn Frey, American musician (b. 1948)
- Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
- January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
- January 26
- Black, British singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
- Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1921)
- January 28 – Paul Kantner, American singer and musician (b. 1941)
- January 29
- Jean-Marie Doré, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)
- Jacques Rivette, French film director and critic (b. 1928)
- January 30
- Frank Finlay, British actor (b. 1926)
- Francisco Flores Pérez, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)
- January 31 – Sir Terry Wogan, Irish-British broadcaster (b. 1938)
February
- February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
- February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (b. 1952)
- February 4
- Maurice White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- February 9
- Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
- Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
- February 13
- Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
- Slobodan Santrač, Serbian football player and manager (b. 1946)
- Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1936)
- February 15 – George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
- February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the UN (b. 1922)
- February 17
- Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
- Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940)
- February 19
- Umberto Eco, Italian writer and philosopher (b. 1932)
- Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
- February 22 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (b. 1913)
- February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
- February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
- February 28 – George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
- February 29
- Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942)
- José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (b. 1925)
March
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- March 5
- Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (b. 1932)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
- Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
- March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
- March 8 – Sir George Martin, English record producer, composer, arranger and engineer (b. 1926)
- March 9 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b. 1944)
- March 10
- Anita Brookner, British novelist (b. 1928)
- Keith Emerson, British musician (b. 1944)
- Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and sport commentator (b. 1942)
- March 11
- Iolanda Balaș, Romanian athlete (b. 1936)
- Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
- March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
- March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
- March 17
- Larry Drake, American actor (b. 1949)
- Meir Dagan, Israeli general and former Director of Mossad (b. 1945)
- March 18
- Guido Westerwelle, German politician (b. 1961)
- Lothar Späth, German politician (b. 1937)
- March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
- March 21 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936)
- March 22 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician (b. 1969)
In fiction
See also
References
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- ^ "2016 to be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)". Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ^ "Agence France-Presse on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
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- ^ "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".
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- ^ "'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".