Editing 2016 (section)

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{{Events by month|2016|prefix=Portal:Current events/}}
[[File:2016 Events Collage.png|right|Clockwise from top-left: bombed-out buildings in [[Ankara]] following the [[2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt|Turkish coup d'état attempt]]; the [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff|impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff]]; damaged houses during the [[2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]], which killed over 2,000 people; the [[2016 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] whilst the [[Zika virus]] was [[2015–16 Zika virus epidemic|spreading]]; queues outside a bank to exchange demonetized banknotes during the [[2016 Indian banknote demonetisation|Indian banknote demonetisation]]; the [[United Kingdom|UK]] votes to [[Brexit|leave]] the [[European Union|EU]]; the Girardet Bridge in [[Düsseldorf]] with its four [[Pokémon Go|Pokéstops]]; [[Donald Trump]] is elected [[2016 United States presidential election|U.S. president]].|300x300px|thumb]]
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2016 was designated as:
* [[International Year of Pulses]] by the [[sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web|title=United Nations Observances: International Years|url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-years/index.html|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=April 29, 2015|ref=United Nations Observances: International Years|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508170503/http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-years/index.html|archive-date=May 8, 2015|date=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
* 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).<ref>{{cite web|title=2016 to be the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)|url=http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/top-news/2016-to-be-the-international-year-of-global-understanding-iygu|access-date=January 7, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105040359/http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/top-news/2016-to-be-the-international-year-of-global-understanding-iygu|archive-date=January 5, 2016}}</ref>

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