2016 in Europe

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This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016.

Events[]

January[]

Protest in Cologne against New Year's Eve sexual assaults
  • 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
    • Tens of thousands of people take to the streets in cities around Poland to protest against a new law giving the government control of state media.[5][6]
    • 14 people are injured and the government building is set alight as opposition protests in Kosovo's capital Pristina turn violent.[7][8]
  • 12 January – A suspected suicide bombing kills at least 11 people and injures 14 in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square.[9][10]
  • 24 January – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is elected President of Portugal.[11]
  • 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.[12]
  • 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.[13]

February[]

Rescue teams on the site of Bad Aibling rail accident

March[]

Entrance of Maalbeek metro station, two days after Brussels bombings

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.[33][34]
  • 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 havens.[35]
  • 18 April – More than 400 migrants and refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to cross by boat from Egypt to Italy.[36]
  • 21 April – The Bulgarian parliament approves the introduction of compulsory voting.[37][38]
  • 29 April – A helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform crashes in the North Sea, killing all 13 people on board.[39][40]

May[]

Violence during Paris anti-labor reform protests, 1 May
Jamala, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
  • 11 May – Italy becomes the last Western European country to legalize same-sex civil unions.[41][42]
  • 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.[43][44]
  • 22 May
  • 29 May – 17 people die in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kyiv.[46]

June[]

Inauguration of the Gotthard Base Tunnel
UEFA Euro 2016 opening ceremony
David Cameron announces his resignation as Prime Minister in the wake of the UK vote on EU membership.

July[]

The scene of Nice attack on 15 July

August[]

Amatrice destroyed by 24 August earthquake
  • 6 August – An accidental explosion and fire kill at least 13 people in a bar in the French city of Rouen.[83][84]
  • 7 August – At least 21 people are dead and six are missing after torrential rains and flooding affect Macedonia's capital of Skopje.[85][86]
  • 10 August
    • Three people are killed and hundreds left critically injured as major wildfires sweep across the Portuguese island of Madeira.[87][88]
    • A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in southeast Turkey kill at least 12 people.[89]
  • 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.[90][91]
  • 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.[92]
  • 27 August – At least 17 migrant workers die after a fire breaks out at a Moscow warehouse.[93]

September[]

October[]

November[]

December[]

  • 4 December – Alexander Van der Bellen wins the Austrian presidential election in a re-run of the second round.[108][109]
  • 5 December – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigns after Italy votes no in a referendum on constitutional reform.[110][111]
  • 9 December – The European Union grants visa-free travel for Georgia and Ukraine.
  • 10 December – A cargo train carrying propane-butane derails and explodes in a northeastern Bulgarian village, killing five people and injuring at least 27.[112]
  • 17 December – A suspected suicide car bomb in central Turkey kills 13 soldiers aboard a bus and wounds 55 more.[113]
  • 19 December
    • The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, is assassinated in Ankara.
    • At least 12 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured as a truck rams into a packed Christmas market in Berlin.[114][115][116]
    • At least 75 people die from poisoning after consuming a bath lotion containing alcohol in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.[citation needed]
  • 23 December – An Afriqiyah Airways flight originating from Sabha, Libya, is hijacked and forced to make an emergency landing in Malta.

Sports[]

  • 2016 European Grand Prix
  • Euro 2016

Arts and entertainment[]

Deaths[]

January[]

David Bowie
Alan Rickman
  • 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[]

Umberto Eco
  • 13 February
  • 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

March[]

Johan Cruyff
Imre Kertész
  • 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
  • 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[]

Corry Brokken
  • 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[]

Anton Yelchin
Bud Spencer
  • 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[]

Michel Rocard
Elie Wiesel
  • 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[]

Walter Scheel
Sonia Rykiel
  • 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
  • 14 August – Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
  • 15 August
  • 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

September[]

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • 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[]

Andrzej Wajda
Dario Fo
  • 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)
  • 13 October – Dario Fo, Italian actor, Nobel playwright and comedian (b. 1926)
  • 14 October – Klim Churyumov, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
  • 16 October – Viktor Zubkov, Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
  • 23 October – Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter and television personality (b. 1959)
  • 24 October
    • Benjamin Creme, Scottish artist, author and esotericist (b. 1922)
    • Reinhard Häfner, German footballer and coach (b. 1952)
  • 29 October – Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist, composer and arranger (b. 1955)
  • 31 October – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921)

November[]

Konstantinos Stefanopoulos
Rita Barberá
  • 2 November – Oleg Popov, Russian clown and circus artist (b. 1930)
  • 5 November – Marek Svatoš, Slovak professional ice hockey winger (b. 1982)
  • 6 November – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
  • 9 November - La Veneno, Spanish transsexual vedette, singer and actress (b. 1964)
  • 11 November
    • Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (b. 1921)
    • Željko Čajkovski, Croatian football player and coach (b. 1925)
  • 13 November – Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver (b. 1931)
  • 16 November – Daniel Prodan, Romanian footballer (b. 1972)
  • 20 November
    • Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 5th President of Greece (b. 1926)
    • William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (b. 1928)
  • 23 November
    • Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)
    • Rita Barberá, Spanish senator and Mayoress of Valencia (1991-2015) (b. 1948)
  • 25 November – David Hamilton, English photographer and film director (b. 1933)
  • 27 November – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
  • 28 November – Mark Taimanov, Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist (b. 1926)

December[]

Bernard Fox
  • 4 December – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934)
  • 5 December – Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic revolutionist, philosopher, poet, political and social activist (b. 1947)
  • 14 December - Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)

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