Events in the year 2016 in

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

Incumbents

Emir Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ( ar, الشيخ صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح, translit=ash-Shaykh Sabāh al-ʾAḥmad al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ; 16 June 192929 September 2020) was the Emir of Kuwait and Commander of the Kuwa ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah ( ar, جابر مبارك الحمد الصباح, Jābir Mubārak al-Ḥamad aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, born 4 January 1942) is a Kuwaiti royal and former politician who served as the prime minister of Kuwait fro ...

Events

* 22 April – representatives from the government of Yemen and from Houthi rebels met in Bayan Palace in

Kuwait City Kuwait City ( ar, مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economical centre of the emirate, ...

in an effort to negotiate a resolution to the

Yemeni civil war Yemeni Civil War may refer to several historical events which have taken place in Yemen: *Alwaziri coup, February – March 1948 *Yemeni–Adenese clan violence, 1956–60 *North Yemen Civil War, 1962–70 *Aden Emergency, 1963–67 *South Yemen#Di ...

. * 24 June – Kuwait announced that it would sue the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

$1 billion for blocking athletes from competing in the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

under the Kuwaiti flag due to alleged government interference in sports. * 21 July – Temperatures in Mitrabah reached , setting a record for highest temperature recorded in Asia. * 8 October – An Egyptian national rammed an explosives-laden garbage truck into a vehicle containing three American soldiers on a Kuwait City highway in "an attempted terrorist attack"; the Americans, unharmed, then saved the Egyptian from his burning vehicle. * 16 October – Emir

dissolved the Kuwait government and set new elections. * 26 November – General elections held. Opposition candidates won 24 of the 50 seats in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

.Kuwait poll: Opposition wins nearly half of parliament
Al Jazeera, 27 November 2016 * 21 December – after the victory of Donald Trump in the

2016 United States presidential election The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket ...

, the ambassador of Kuwait moved its annual Kuwaiti National Day event to the Trump International Hotel Washington DC.Jonathan O'Connell,
Kuwait moves D.C. gala to Trump hotel
, ''The Boston Globe'', via ''The Washington Post'' (December 21, 2016), p. A6.

References

2010s in Kuwait Years of the 21st century in Kuwait

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