This article is about the year 2016. For the number, see 2016 (number). For other uses, see 2016 (disambiguation).
2016
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Clockwise from top-left: bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; damaged houses during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which killed over 2,000 people; the 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil whilst the Zika virus was spreading; queues outside a bank to exchange demonetized banknotes during the Indian banknote demonetisation; the UK votes to leave the EU; the Girardet Bridge in Düsseldorf with its four Pokéstops; Donald Trump is elected U.S. president.
Calendar year
Millennium:
3rd millennium
Centuries:
20th century
21st century
22nd century
Decades:
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
2030s
Years:
2013
2014
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2016
2017
2018
2019
2016 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
2016 MMXVI
Ab urbe condita
2769
Armenian calendar
1465 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar
6766
Baháʼí calendar
172–173
Balinese saka calendar
1937–1938
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) 4713 or 4506 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4714 or 4507
Coptic calendar
1732–1733
Discordian calendar
3182
Ethiopian calendar
2008–2009
Hebrew calendar
5776–5777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2072–2073
- Shaka Samvat
1937–1938
- Kali Yuga
5116–5117
Holocene calendar
12016
Igbo calendar
1016–1017
Iranian calendar
1394–1395
Islamic calendar
1437–1438
Japanese calendar
Heisei 28 (平成２８年)
Javanese calendar
1949–1950
Juche calendar
105
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4349
Minguo calendar
ROC 105 民國105年
Nanakshahi calendar
548
Thai solar calendar
2559
Tibetan calendar
阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 2142 or 1761 or 989 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2143 or 1762 or 990
Unix time
1451606400 – 1483228799
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.
Calendar year
2016 by topic
Arts
Animation
Anime
Architecture
Comics
Film
Horror
Literature
Poetry
Radio
Science fiction
Television
Video games
esports
Music
Albums
By genre
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Jazz
Latin
Metal
Rock
By place
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Korea
Philippines
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Europe
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Scandinavia
Norway
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
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Elections
International leaders
Organized crime
Religion
Religious leaders
Sovereign states
Sovereign state leaders
Territorial governors
Science and technology
Archaeology
Biotechnology
Computing
Palaeontology
Quantum computing and communication
Senescence research
Sustainable energy research
Environment
Birding and ornithology
Climate change
Weather
Transportation
Aviation
Rail transport
Spaceflight
Transportation technology
Sports
American football
Association football
Athletics (sport)
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Chess
Combat sports
Cricket
Cycling
Golf
Ice hockey
Pro wrestling
Rugby union
Swimming
Tennis
Volleyball
By sovereign state
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Comoros
Congo
D.R. Congo
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Eswatini
Equatorial Guinea
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Madagascar
Marshall Islands
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nauru
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
Solomon Islands
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
By international organization
European Union
United Nations
Categories
Births
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Establishments
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Works
Introductions
Works entering the public domain
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2016 was 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]
^"United Nations Observances: International Years". United Nations. January 6, 2015. Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
^"2016 to be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)". Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
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