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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

February

  • 12th: Deadpool

March

  • 25th: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
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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)
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    The International Space Station in 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)
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    The battle of New York.

  • 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)
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The Azadegan oil fields.

  • 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)
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