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Historical events from year 2016. Learn about 497 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 2016 or search by date or keyword.
2016 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.
What happened and who was famous in 2016? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 2016.
Nov 8, 2017 · This is the story of Election Day in 2016, from the last gasp campaign events, to the heady (for Clinton) early hours and glorious (for Trump) evening. The “day” – all 36 hours of it – ended at...
The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
In 2016, Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton. Seven electors voted for someone other than their party’s candidate.
Nov 29, 2018 · The 2016 election featured unconventional and divisive campaigns and the electoral college results led to a stunning upset victory for Republican Donald J. Trump.
Dec 28, 2016 · We lost far too many vaunted pop culture icons in 2016 — including Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Muhammad Ali, Leonard Cohen, Alan Thicke, George Michael, and Carrie Fisher, to name a few. But the...
May 30, 2024 · United States Presidential Election of 2016 was an American presidential election held on November 8, 2016, in which Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton but won the electoral college to become the 45th president of the United States.
July 18–21 – The Republican National convention is held in Cleveland, Ohio with Donald Trump accepting the nomination. July 22 – Hillary Clinton announces Virginia United States Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate for the Democrat ticket in the 2016 presidential election.
