2016
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s 1990s 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 2030s 2040s |
| Years: | 2013 2014 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2018 2019 |
| 2016 by topic: |
| News by month |
| Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec |
| 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 |
| Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Costa Rica – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States |
| 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 |
| 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 | N/A |
| 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) will be a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter CB), 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.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- The ESA and Roscosmos plan to launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.[1]
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.[2]
July
- July 9 – The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.[3]
August
- August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4]
- September 7–18 – The 2016 Summer Paralympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5]
- NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter.[6]
September
- China plans to complete the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope.[7]
November
- November 1 – Sierra Nevada plan to launch Dream Chaser, a privately built space plane on an unmanned debut mission.[8]
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 ownership.[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]
In fiction
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and 3 's campaigns mostly takes place in 2016.
- Infamous Second Son takes place in this year, seven years after Infamous 2 (which took place in 2009).
See also
References
- ↑ "ESA - Robotic Exploration of Mars: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ↑ "The Transit of Mercury on 2016 May 9". Retrieved June 7, 2012.
- ↑ "ESA Science & Technology: BepiColombo". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ↑ "Rio 2016 Olympic Games". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ↑ "The Paralympic Games". Rio 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ↑ "Juno Mission to Jupiter" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ↑ "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". Huffington Post.
- ↑ "Communiqué of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, At the Phanar, March 9, 2014".