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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.
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]
August
- August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[3]
- NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter.[4]
September
- September 7–18 – The 2016 Summer Paralympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5]
- China plans to complete the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope.[6]
November
- November 1 – Sierra Nevada plan to launch Dream Chaser, a privately built spaceplane on an unmanned debut mission.[7]
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.[8]
- Orbital Technologies, a Russian private spaceflight company, plans to launch a space hotel for wealthy tourists in 2016.[9]
- The Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church is planned to take place in Istanbul.[10][11]
- According to the Bible Code. the Islamic State terrorist group will be destroyed by 2016
In fiction
- Gungriffon Blaze PlayStation 2 (2000).
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's (2011) campaigns mostly takes place in 2016.
- Infamous Second Son (2014) takes place in this year, seven years after Infamous 2 (2011).
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
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.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Olympic Games". Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ "Juno Mission to Jupiter" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ^ "The Paralympic Games". Rio 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ^ "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".