2016
From left to right, top to bottom:
- The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil whilst the Zika virus was spreading;
- Donald Trump is elected U.S. president;
- The UK votes to leave the EU;
- Damaged houses during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which killed over 2,000 people;
- Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the Turkish coup d'état attempt;
- The impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff;
- A terrorist vehicle-ramming attack in Nice, France kills 87; monuments and memorials to the attack;
- Queues outside a bank to exchange demonetized banknotes during the Indian banknote demonetisation;
- The Girardet Bridge in Düsseldorf, Germany with its four Pokéstops.
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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.
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2016 was designated as:
- International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
- International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).