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Wood Sheep (乙未, 32) - Fire Monkey (丙申, 33)
The year 2016 is a leap year with 366 days.
- 3.1 Anniversaries
Anticipated events
- Mai: 100 Catholic in Leipzig
- 31st World Youth Day of the Roman Catholic Church in Krakow.
- June / July: 15 Football Championship of the men in France.
- August: XXXI. Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
- November: Presidential election in the United States.
- December: Opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel as the longest railway tunnel in the world.
- 500 - year celebration of the Bavarian Purity Law.
- State elections in Baden- Württemberg, Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, Saxony -Anhalt and Rhineland -Palatinate and the Berlin House of Representatives.
Already fixed events
Astronomy
- Total solar eclipse on March 9; visible in the Indian Ocean, Sumatra, in the Pacific and Micronesia.
- Annular solar eclipse on September 1; visible in Gabon, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and Reunion Island.
- Penumbral eclipse ( lunar eclipse ) on 16 September.
- The next outbreak of the quasar and black hole binary OJ 287
- Transit of Mercury on May 9.