The year 2016 is the two-thousandth and sixteenth year of the Common Era. It is preceded by 2015 and is followed by 2017.
Releases[]
January
- 29th: The Fifth Wave
February
- 12th: Deadpool
March
- 25th: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
May
- 6th: Captain America: Civil War
- 27th: X-Men: Apocalypse
June
- 3rd: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
- 24th: Independence Day 2
- 24th: Transformers 5
July
- 29th: Planet of the Apes 3
August:
- 5th: Suicide Squad (film)
November:
- 11th: The Sinister Six
December:
- 16th: Untitled Star Wars spinoff
Events from Science Fiction[]
- August 12: A team lead by terrorist Vladimir Makarov and including the uncover CIA agent, Joseph Allen, massacre civilians at the Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow, Russia. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 13: Task Force 141, in the aftermath of the shooting in Moscow, hunt down arms dealer Alejandro Rojas to find more information on Makarov. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 14: Ultra nationalist Russian forces invade Virginia in the United States starting the third world war. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 14: Task Force 141 rescues captain John Price from the gulag. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 15: Russian forces attack Washington, D.C. with the Americans taking heavy casualties. The attack is thwarted by a nuclear warhead being detonated in the upper atmosphere and causing an EMP effect. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 15: Task Force 141 attacks Rybachiy naval base, near Petropavlovsk, Russia, and launch a nuclear weapon to create an EMP effect over Washington, D.C. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 15: The International Space Station is destroyed by the Washington nuclear detonation. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 15: Task Force 141 are sent to the Caucasus Mountains to capture Makarov. Instead of capturing Makarov the unit recovers a hard drive with intel on Makarov. TF 141 members Gary Sanderson and Simon Riley are betrayed by general Shepard, who kills them both and takes the hard drive.
- August 15: Betrayed members of Task Force 141 John Price, Rook, John MacTavish, and Nikolai escape a plane boneyard in Afghanistan with temporary help from Makarov's men to fight the Shadow Company. Rook is shot in the process. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 16: Captain John Price and Captain John MacTavish infiltrate a Shadow Company base and successfully kill general Shepard. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
- August 16: Russian forces are pushed back into New York. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3)
- August 17: A Delta Force team codenamed Metal, destroys a Russian communications jammer on top of the New York Stock Exchange and escapes via a helicopter. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3)
- August 17: U.S. navy seals take control of a Russian submarine and uses it to attack the Russian fleet in the Hudson river. (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3)
- Unknown Date: The film Stealth takes place.
- Unknown Date: American marines begins a amphibious assault on a Russian airbase to take a key position controlling the straight of Hormuz. (Battlefield 4: Second Assault)
- Unknown Date: A second bloody battle in the Paris subway takes place between Russian and American forces.(Battlefield 4: Second Assault)
- Unknown Date: Russian and American forces battle again over the Azadegan oil fields in Iran. (Battlefield 4: Second Assault)
- Unknown Date: A battle takes place along the Iran/Turkmenistan border between Russian and American forces. (Battlefield 4: Second Assault)
- Unknown Date: A nuclear exchange takes place in the Middle East destroying much of Iran and Saudi Arabia. (Tom Clancy's Endgame)