2016 In Europe
This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016. Events January * 1 January ** The Netherlands takes over the rotating presidency of the EU Council from Luxembourg. ** San Sebastián (Spain) and Wrocław (Poland) are named European Capitals of Culture. * 8 January – 32 people, including 22 asylum seekers, are arrested in connection to a series of apparently co-ordinated sexual assaults and thefts in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve. *9 January ** Tens of thousands of people take to the streets in cities around Poland to protest against a new law giving the government control of state media. ** 14 people are injured and the government building is set alight as opposition protests in Kosovo's capital Pristina turn violent. * 12 January – A suspected suicide bombing kills at least 11 people and injures 14 in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square. * 24 January – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is elected President of Portugal. * 28 January – A boat carrying Ir ...
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Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and E ...
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