2016 in Europe
This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016.
Events
January
- 1 January
- The Netherlands takes over the rotating presidency of the EU Council from Luxembourg.
- San Sebastián (Spain)[1] and Wrocław (Poland)[2] are named European Capitals of Culture.
- 8 January – 32 people, including 22 asylum seekers, are arrested in connection to a series of apparently co-ordinated sexual assaults and thefts in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.[3][4]
- 9 January
- 12 January – A suspected suicide bombing kills at least 11 people and injures 14 in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square.[9][10][11]
- 24 January – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is elected President of Portugal.[12]
- 28 January – A boat carrying Iraqi Kurdish migrants sinks off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least 24 people, including several children, with 11 others missing.[13]
- 30 January – A massive pile-up involving 70 vehicles, including a bus and several lorries, kills four people and injures 30 on A1 motorway in western Slovenia.[14][15]
February
- 9 February – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling, with 11 people killed and 82 injured.[16][17][18]
- 12 February – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting since the East–West Schism in 1054.
- 15 February – Bosnia and Herzegovina formally applies to join the European Union.[19]
- 28 February – A total of 36 people are presumed dead following three explosions at a coal mine in Vorkuta, Russia.[20][21][22]
March
- 5 March – The party of Slovak prime minister Robert Fico wins the election but loses the parliamentary majority.[23]
- 13 March – At least 34 people are killed and 125 wounded in a suicide car bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara.[24][25]
- 18 March – Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is shot and arrested in a police raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels after a four-month international manhunt.[26]
- 19 March – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.[27][28]
- 20 March – At least 14 people are killed after a coach carrying Erasmus exchange students crashes near Barcelona.[29][30]
- 22 March – 32 people are killed and 316 injured in attacks at Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station.[31][32][33]
- 24 March – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War.[34]
April
- 3 April – A ceasefire is announced after at least 193 soldiers are killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.[35][36]
- 4 April – Thousands of people protest in Reykjavík, asking for the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, after Panama Papers investigation revealed that he had hidden investments in tax heavens.[37]
- 18 April – More than 400 migrants and refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to cross by boat from Egypt to Italy.[38]
- 21 April – The Bulgarian parliament approves the introduction of compulsory voting.[39][40]
- 29 April – A helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform crashes in the North Sea, killing all 13 people on board.[41][42]
May
- 11 May – Italy becomes the last Western European country to legalize same-sex civil unions.[43][44]
- 14 May – Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song "1944", wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 19 May – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes off the Greek island of Karpathos, killing all 66 people on board.[45][46]
- 22 May
- A gunman fires shots into a small crowd attending an open air concert in Nenzing, Austria, killing two people and wounding 11 others before shooting himself to death.[47]
- Independent Green Alexander Van der Bellen is narrowly elected President of Austria.
- 29 May – 17 people die in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kiev.[48]
June
- 1 June – Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel, opens in Switzerland.[49]
- 3 June – Heavy rains cause severe flooding in parts of France as well as Belgium and Germany, with reports of at least 11 people dead.[50]
- 6 June
- 7 June – A car bomb attack targeting a police bus kills 11 people and injures 36 in central Istanbul.[54][55]
- 14 June
- UEFA fines the Russian Football Union €150,000 and imposes a suspended disqualification on their team for violence at UEFA Euro 2016.[56][57][58]
- At least 40 people are injured in violence during street protests in Paris against French labor reform.[59][60]
- 19 June - Baku hosts the European Grand Prix which is won by Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg
- 23 June – The United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union.[61]
- 25 June – Guðni Jóhannesson wins Iceland's presidential election.[62][63]
- 26 June – Conservative People's Party, led by Mariano Rajoy, gains the most seats in the Spanish repeat election but remains short of a majority.[64][65]
- 28 June – An armed attack at Istanbul Atatürk Airport leaves at least 41 people dead and 239 others injured.[66]
July
- 1 July – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.[67]
- 2 July – A gunman shoots five people dead and wounds 22 more after opening fire in a café in Žitište, Serbia.[68][69]
- 8–9 July – Leaders of NATO member states meet at the two-day summit in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
- 12 July – 27 people are killed and dozens more injured in a head-on collision involving two passenger trains in the Apulia region of Italy.[70][71][72]
- 13 July – Theresa May replaces David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[73][74]
- 14 July – At least 84 people are killed after a truck is driven into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France.[75][76][77][78]
- 15–16 July – At least 265 people are killed and more than 3,000 members of Turkey's armed forces arrested after an attempted military coup.[79][80][81]
- 21 July – Rioting erupts in the Armenian capital of Yerevan as protesters clash with police over the government's handling of a four-day hostage crisis.[82][83]
- 22 July – A gunman opens fire near a shopping mall in Munich, Germany, killing 9 people and injuring 27.[84][85]
August
- 6 August – An accidental explosion and fire kill at least 13 people in a bar in the French city of Rouen.[86][87]
- 7 August – At least 21 people are dead and six are missing after torrential rains and flooding affect Macedonia's capital of Skopje.[88][89]
- 10 August
- 20 August – At least 51 people are killed and scores more wounded in a suicide attack at a wedding ceremony in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep.[93][94]
- 24 August – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits central Italy, killing at least 290 people.
- 26 August
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the world's tallest suspension bridge, opens to traffic across the Bosphorus.
- Kurdish militants attack a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey with an explosives-laden truck, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people.[95]
- 27 August – At least 17 migrant workers die after a fire breaks out at a Moscow warehouse.[96]
September
- 18 September – Russia's parliamentary elections bring a landslide win for President Vladimir Putin's United Russia and its allies.[97][98]
October
- 9 October – A car bomb attack outside the Durak gendarmerie station in southeastern Turkey leaves 10 soldiers and eight civilians dead and scores of others injured.[99][100]
- 10 October – Kersti Kaljulaid becomes the first female President of Estonia.[101]
- 26 October – Powerful earthquakes rock central Italy, causing buildings to crumble, knocking power out and sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets.[102][103][104]
November
- 9 November – A derailment on the Tramlink in Croydon, London, kills seven people and injures more than 50 others.[105]
- 13 November – Pro-Russian candidate Igor Dodon wins the second round of Moldova's presidential election.[106][107]
- 14 November – Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov submits his resignation to the National Assembly after opposition-backed Rumen Radev wins the presidential runoff.[108][109]
- 16 November – Russian President Vladimir Putin issues a decree for Russia to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.[110]
Sports
Deaths
January
- 1 January – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
- 2 January – Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
- 3 January – Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
- 4 January – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
- 5 January – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor, writer and pianist (b. 1925)
- 6 January – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress and director (b. 1925)
- 7 January – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
- 8 January – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
- 10 January – David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
- 14 January – Alan Rickman, English actor and director (b. 1946)
- 18 January – Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
- 19 January – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- 26 January – Black, English singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
- 29 January – Jacques Rivette, French film director and film critic (b. 1928)
- 30 January – Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (b. 1926)
- 31 January – Terry Wogan, Irish-British radio and television broadcaster (b. 1938)
February
- 13 February
- Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
- Slobodan Santrač, Serbian football manager and player (b. 1946)
- 15 February – George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
- 17 February – Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940)
- 19 February – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher and semiotician (b. 1932)
- 22 February – Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer (b. 1913)
- 29 February
- Hannes Löhr, German football player and manager (b. 1942)
- José Parra Martínez, Spanish football defender (b. 1925)
March
- 5 March – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
- 8 March – George Martin, English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician (b. 1926)
- 10 March – Keith Emerson, English keyboardist and composer (b. 1944)
- 11 March
- Iolanda Balaș, Romanian Olympic high jumper (b. 1936)
- Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
- 14 March – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
- 18 March
- Lothar Späth, German politician (b. 1937)
- Guido Westerwelle, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
- 20 March – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
- 21 March – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and science pioneer (b. 1936)
- 24 March
- Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (b. 1970)
- Johan Cruyff, Dutch professional football player and coach (b. 1947)
- 31 March
- Georges Cottier, Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1922)
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Vice Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Interior Minister of Germany (b. 1927)
- Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born British architect (b. 1950)
- Imre Kertész, Hungarian author (b. 1929)
April
- 3 April – Cesare Maldini, Italian football manager and player (b. 1932)
- 4 April – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
- 12 April – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist (b. 1932)
- 16 April – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
- 19 April – Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist (b. 1923)
- 20 April – Guy Hamilton, English film director (b. 1922)
- 24 April – Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (b. 1955)
- 25 April – Martin Gray, Polish writer (b. 1922)
- 27 April – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
- 30 April – Harry Kroto, English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)
May
- 5 May – Siné, French political cartoonist (b. 1928)
- 6 May – Margot Honecker, East German politician (b. 1927)
- 16 May – Giovanni Coppa, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1925)
- 19 May
- Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and film director (b. 1923)
- Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
- Alan Young, English-born Canadian-American actor (b. 1919)
- 21 May
- Sándor Tarics, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
- Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (b. 1964)
- 22 May – Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
- 26 May
- Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal (b. 1915)
- Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
- 28 May
- Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor and film director (b. 1923)
- David Cañada, Spanish professional road racing cyclist (b. 1975)
- 31 May – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
June
- 2 June – Tom Kibble, British theoretical physicist (b. 1932)
- 3 June – Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
- 6 June
- Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1931)
- 8 June – Pierre Aubert, Swiss politician and lawyer (b. 1927)
- 11 June – Rudi Altig, German professional track and road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
- 18 June – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur and industrialist (b. 1933)
- 19 June
- Victor Stănculescu, Romanian general (b. 1928)
- Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (b. 1989)
- 20 June – Edgard Pisani, French statesman, philosopher, and writer (b. 1918)
- 25 June – Maurice G. Dantec, French science fiction writer and musician (b. 1959)
- 27 June – Bud Spencer, Italian actor, filmmaker, and professional swimmer (b. 1929)
- 28 June – André Guelfi, French racing driver (b. 1919)
July
- 1 July – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and art historian (b. 1923)
- 2 July
- Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor (b. 1930)
- Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
- Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
- 6 July – Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
- 9 July – Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1924)
- 12 July
- Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician and alleged war criminal (b. 1958)
- Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1949)
- 13 July – Bernardo Provenzano, member of the Sicilian Mafia (b. 1933)
- 14 July – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1950)
- 20 July – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor, director, and essayist (b. 1918)
- 23 July – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
- 25 July – Halil İnalcık, Turkish historian (b. 1916)
- 27 July
- Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928)
- Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
August
- 1 August – Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
- 2 August – Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1927)
- 5 August – Alphons Egli, Swiss politician (b. 1924)
- 9 August – Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (b. 1951)
- 13 August
- Kenny Baker, English actor and musician (b. 1934)
- Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian author (b. 1930)
- 14 August – Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
- 15 August
- Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
- Stefan Henze, German slalom canoeist (b. 1981)
- 18 August – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (b. 1923)
- 19 August – Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus thrower (b. 1929)
- 22 August – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
- 24 August
- Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926)
- Walter Scheel, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1919)
- 25 August – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer and writer (b. 1930)
- 26 August – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
- 30 August
- Věra Čáslavská, Czech artistic gymnast (b. 1942)
- Marc Riboud, French photographer (b. 1923)
September
- 2 September – Daniel Willems, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1956)
- 3 September – Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, French mathematician (b. 1957)
- 12 September – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer and politician (b. 1930)
- 13 September – Jonathan Riley-Smith, English medieval historian (b. 1938)
- 16 September
- Gabriele Amorth, Italian Roman Catholic priest and an exorcist (b. 1925)
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
- 17 September – Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
- 23 September – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
October
- 1 October – David Herd, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
- 2 October – Neville Marriner, English conductor (b. 1924)
- 4 October – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian author and historian (b. 1940)
- 5 October – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
- 8 October – Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
- 9 October – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)
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