2016

2016 was a leap year in the Common era.

Major Events

 * January 3 - After the execution of Nimr al-Nimr the day earlier the diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are ended
 * January 8 - Joaquín Guzmán is recaptured
 * Febuary 7 - North Korea violates the UN and fires a rocket into space
 * March 22 - ISIS bombs Brussels, Belgium
 * April 2 - Armenian and Azerbaijani troops clash
 * May 30 - Former Chadian president is sentenced to life in prison
 * June 23 - Brexit
 * June 28 - ISIS is expected to of attacked an airport in Istanbul
 * July 1 - Latvia joins OECD
 * July 4 - NASA's Juno spacecraft enters around Jupiter 🇺🇸
 * August 5-21 - The 2016 Summer olympics are held in Rio
 * August 31 - Former Brazillian president Dilma Rousseff is impeached
 * September 8 - NASA launches OSIRIS-REx 🇺🇸
 * September 9 - North Korea conducts a nuclear test
 * October 13 - The Maldives announces that they will withdraw from the commonwealth
 * November 8 - Donald Trump is elected to become the 45th US president 🇺🇸
 * November 24 - The Colombian Conflict comes to an end
 * December 16 - The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, is assassinated

Major Confict

 * Syrian Civil War    🇺🇸
 * War in Afghanistan 🇺🇸
 * Iraq War 🇺🇸
 * Mexican Drug War
 * Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
 * Somali Civil War
 * The Colombia Conflict

Deaths

 * January 10 - Dawid Bowie 🇺🇸
 * January 14 - Alan Rickman
 * March 6 - Nancy Reagan 🇺🇸
 * April 21 - Prince 🇺🇸
 * June 3 - Muhammad Ali 🇺🇸
 * July 31 - Fazil Iskander
 * August 29 - Gene Wilder 🇺🇸
 * September 28 - Shimon Peres
 * October 5 - Michal Kováč
 * November 25 - Fidel Castro
 * December 16 - Andrei Karlov
 * December 27 - Carrie Fisher 🇺🇸
 * December 28 - Debbie Reynolds 🇺🇸