An overview of international current affairs of 2016. It covers all the important events of the month of January 2016 to December 2016, which are relevant for any competitive exams. A short description of General world will provide a complete framework to go through all important events on world level. Following are the list of memorable events of 2016 :-
| Months Name | Impotant Dates | Key Events |
| January 2016 | 2 Jan | Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, cut ties with Iran after protestors attack its embassy in Tehran |
| 16 Jan | International Sections on Iran lifted after clearance from nuclear watchdog IAEA | |
| February 2016 | 1 Feb | WHO declares global public health emergency over spread of Zika virus |
| 07 Feb | North Korea fires long-range rocket, believed to be a test of banned missile technology | |
| 12 Feb | Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox church head Patriarch Kirill meet in Cuba-the first meeting between the two churches since they split in 1054 | |
| March 2016 | 19 Mar | 62 people killed in FlyDubai plane crash in Russia |
| 20 Mar | Barak Obama becames the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928 | |
| 22 Mar | Three bombings in Belgian capital Brussels leave 35 people dead | |
| 27 Mar | Over 70 killed in suicide attack targeting Christians celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan | |
| 30 Mar | Htin Kyaw becomes first elected President of Myanmar after 53 years of military rule | |
| April 2016 | 03 Apr | ‘Panama Papers’-a set of 11.5 million leaked confidential documents – reveal secretive assets channeled to offshore tax havens by prominent world personalities |
| 16 Apr | Magnitude 7.8 earthquake kills over 650 people in Ecuador | |
| 21 Apr | Musical legend Prince, 57, found dead at his home after a drug overdose | |
| May 2016 | 10 May | Rodrigo Duterte promises war on drugs and killing of criminals, gets landslide victory in Philippines president elections |
| 19 May | Egypt Air flight from Paris to Cairo crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, 66 people killed | |
| 21 May | Leader of Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan | |
| June 2016 | 03 June | Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies at the age of 74 |
| 12 June | Worst mass shooting in US history leaves 50 people dead at a gay nightclub in Florida | |
| 23 June | UK votes to leave the European Union in the ‘Brexit’ referendum; PM David Cameron announces his resignation | |
| 28 June | Suicide bombings and gun attacks at Istanbul airport, Turkey kill 45 people | |
| July 2016 | 01 July | 24 people killed as Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 12 July | China refuses to accept an international court ruling in favour of Philippines over the South China Sea dispute | |
| 13 July | Theresa May takes over as the second women PM of United Kingdom | |
| 14 July | A truck ploughs through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France; 84 people killed | |
| 15 July | Attempted military coup in Turkey fails; over 260 people killed and thousands taken into custody | |
| 23 July | Over 80 people killed in suicide attack at a rally by Hazara minority in Kabul, Afghanistan | |
| 26 July | Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar powered aircraft to circumnavigate the earth | |
| August 2016 | 5-21 Aug | Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil |
| 08 Aug | Suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, kills over 70 people | |
| 24 Aug | Devastating earthquake in central Italy leaves around 300 people dead | |
| 31 Aug | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff impeached by the Senate on charges of breaking budget laws | |
| September 2016 | 02 Sep | Mother Teresa declared a Saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican |
| 09 Sep | Defiant North Korea conducts its fifth and largest nuclear test | |
| 29 Sep | India carries out surgical strikes on Pakistani terror launch pads across LoC; hostility between the neighbours escalates in the subsequent weeks | |
| October 2016 | 04 Oct | Hurricane Matthew slams Haiti killing over 1,500 people; another 50 die in the US |
| 08 Oct | At least 140 people killed in a Saudi-led air strike at a funeral in Yemen after being mistaken for rebels | |
| 13 Oct | Portugal’s former PM Antonio Guterres chosen as the next UN Secretary-General | |
| 13 Oct | King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, world’s longest reigning monarch, dies at the age of 88 | |
| 13 Oct | Bob Dylan becomes the first singer songwriter to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
| 16 Oct | Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters, by US-led air strikes, launch an offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS | |
| 26 Oct | Over 60 killed in militant attack on a police training centre in Quetta, Pakistan | |
| 26 Oct | UN refugee agency reports death of at least 3,800 Europe-bound migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, making 2016 the deadliest year of the crisis | |
| November 2016 | 08 Nov | Donald Trump, billionaire businessman, elected 45th President of USA in a stunning victory over Hillary Clinton |
| 08 Nov | Indian PM Narendra Modi announces sudden demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes | |
| 26 Nov | Cuba’s former president fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest serving leaders, dies at the age 90 | |
| 28 Nov | Brazil’s Chapecoense football team member among 71 people killed in a plane crash near Medellin, Colombia | |
| December 2016 | 07 Dec | Pakistani passenger plane crashes near Islamabad, killing all 48 people on board |
| 07 Dec | Close to 100 people killed in Indonesian earthquake | |
| 12 Dec | Paolo Gentiloni takes over as PM of Italy, succeeding Matteo Renzi who quit after losing a referendum on constitutional reform | |
| 25 Dec | 92 people killed after Russian military plane crashes in the Black Sea | |
| 26 Dec | Pop icon George Michael dies at the age of 53 | |
| 29 Dec | Syrian govt and rebels agree on a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey just a week after Syrian forces retake control of Aleppo | |
| 29 Dec | US exples 35 Russian diplomats amid allegations of Moscow’s meddling in American election; President Putin doesn’t react with a tit-for-tat response |
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