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2016 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.
In the 2016 Senate and House elections, the Republican Party maintains its majority of seats in Congress. November 9 – Anti-Trump protests are held in several cities across the nation over the next week after Trump's election win. November 10 – John Kerry makes a trip to Antarctica, becoming the first Secretary of State to visit all seven ...
Disasters and accidents A gas explosion at a subway construction site near the South Korean capital Seoul kills four workers and injures ten more. (Yonhap) EgyptAir Flight 804 A French naval vessel detects a possible signal from the missing black box of EgyptAir Flight 804. (CNN) (The New York Times) 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire Residents return to Fort McMurray for the first time since May 1 ...
Disasters and accidents About one thousand houses in Manila's Tondo district in the Philippines are set ablaze following New Year's Eve firecracker festivities that left one dead and 380 others injured. (AP via CTV News) International relations The EU-Ukraine Free Trade deal officially comes into force, coinciding with a Russian food embargo on Ukraine. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) Law ...
It's been a tough week for a lot of people. Hopefully this will fix things -- at least for a little bit.
Timeline of the 2016 United States presidential election ← 2012 November 8, 2016 2020 → The following is a timeline of major events leading up to, during, and after the 2016 United States presidential election. The election was the 58th quadrennial United States presidential election, held on November 8, 2016. The presidential primaries and caucuses were held between February 1 and June 14 ...
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2016. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 15 deadliest countries in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research estimated that there were 226 politically motivated armed conflicts (of which 38 estimated as highly violent: 18 full-scale wars ...
2016 – Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub. [10] 2016 – U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president. 2016 – 36 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire. 2017 – Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.