2016
This page lists news articles and events for the year 2016.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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Undated
These are the three events that where on everyone's mind in 2016, at least in the West. If you want to really make your game or story feel like it's set in 2016, lean into these events:
- Event: The United Kingdom shockingly voted (via public referendum) in favor of Brexit from the European Union, starting a long painful process.
- Event: A repeatedly-shocking and often downright nasty political season in the United States. Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump.
- Event: Pokemon Go starts rolling out by region in July. Surprisingly large groups of strangers gather in public spaces to stare at their phones together for hours. This happens around the clock over the next few months.
Other stuff happened in this year as well, such as:
- Event: The first laboratory experiments on time crystals were conducted.
January
February
March
April
- April 27
- Event: NASA scientists discover a quasi-satellite sort of orbiting the Earth
May
June
- June 15
- News: NASA announces discovery of a quasi-satellite, sort of orbiting the Earth: Small Asteroid is Earth's Constant Companion
July
- July 6
- Event: Pokemon Go released in United States, Australia and New Zealand.
- July 11
August
- August 22
- News: Alien Megastructure? 'Tabby's Star' Continues to Baffle Scientists - scientists discuss the possible detection of a Dyson Swarm around Tabby's Star
September
October
November
December
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