Events from 2016 in

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Incumbent

Events

January

*2 January – Rail fares in England, Scotland and Wales rise by 1.1%, in line with current inflation rates. *12 January – Junior doctors in England providing non-emergency care strike for 24 hours in a dispute with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over pay and working hours. *13 January – MPs have given initial support to the idea of England adopting an official national anthem. *14 January – **The gang of "brazen burglars" involved in the £14m Hatton Garden jewellery heist, dubbed the "largest burglary in English legal history", face jail after the final three are convicted of involvement. **The

Metropolitan Police The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

announce that an extra 600 armed officers are to be trained and patrols more than doubled to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London. *15 January – Tim Peake conducts the first

spacewalk Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable atmosphere of Earth, Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmen ...

by an "official" British astronaut, stepping outside an ISS airlock. *20 January –

Unemployment rates This is a list of countries by unemployment rate. Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some cou ...

fall to 5.1%, their lowest level in almost a decade, but figures show that wage growth has slowed.

March

*22 March – Transgender fell-runner Lauren Jeska attempts to murder UK Athletics official Ralph Knibbs, stabbing him multiple times in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

. Jeska had feared her records and ability to compete in women's events would be investigated due to the unfair advantage she had from being born male.

Deaths

*14 January –

Alan Rickman Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespe ...

, actor and director (born

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

) *31 January –

Terry Wogan Sir Michael Terence Wogan (; 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in December 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekd ...

, Irish radio and television broadcaster (born

1938 in Ireland Events from the year 1938 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Douglas Hyde (from 25 June 1938) * Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera ( FF) Events * 17 January – the Ford Motor Company in Cork City produces its 25,000th car to be built there. * 13 Ap ...

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