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.

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2016 was designated as:

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  • 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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Events

January

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February

March

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April

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May

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June

  • June 1 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened following two decades of construction work.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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July

  • July 1 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • July 5 – NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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August

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September

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October

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  • October 14 – American missionary and aid worker Jeff Woodke is kidnapped in Abalak, Niger by militants. He would not be freed for six years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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November

  • November 1 – The number of people globally using mobile devices to access the internet overtakes those using desktop computers for the first time, having been preceded by the U.S. two years prior.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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December

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General

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Births and deaths

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Nobel Prizes

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See also

References

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