this blog is about the year 2016
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2016 by topic:
Arts
Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming
Politics
Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states
Science and technology
Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight
Sports
Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league
By place
Afghanistan – Algeria – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States - Vietnam
Other topics
Awards – Law – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
Works entering the public domain
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2016 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 2016
MMXVI
Ab urbe condita 2769
Armenian calendar 1465
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar 6766
Bahá'í calendar 172–173
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)
4712 or 4652
— to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4713 or 4653
Coptic calendar 1732–1733
Discordian calendar 3182
Ethiopian calendar 2008–2009
Hebrew calendar 5776–5777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 2072–2073
- Shaka Samvat 1938–1939
- Kali Yuga 5117–5118
Holocene calendar 12016
Igbo calendar 1016–1017
Iranian calendar 1394–1395
Islamic calendar 1437–1438
Japanese calendar Heisei 28
(平成２８年)
Juche calendar 105
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4349
Minguo calendar ROC 105
民國105年
Thai solar calendar 2559
Unix time 1451606400–1483228799
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2016 (MMXVI) is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of 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) & International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Events
2 Predicted and scheduled events
3 Deaths
4 See also
5 References
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 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]
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.[6] It was originally scheduled to be launched on January 7, but in September 2015 the mission was postponed.[7]
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.[8]
June
June 1 - Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel, is scheduled to be opened.[9]
July
July 4 – NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter.[10]
August
August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[11]
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.[12]
November
November 1 – Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to launch Dream Chaser, a privately built spaceplane on an unmanned debut mission.[13]
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.[14]
Orbital Technologies, a Russian private spaceflight company, plans to launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists in 2016.[15]
The Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church is planned to take place in Istanbul.[16][17]
Deaths
Main article: Deaths in 2016
Further information: Category:2016 deaths
January
David Bowie
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)
January 8 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
January 9 – 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
