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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Mauricio Macri Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previo ...

*Vice President:

Gabriela Michetti Marta Gabriela Michetti Illia (; born 28 May 1965) is an Argentine politician and was Vice President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019 during Mauricio Macri's administration. Before her, the only woman to serve as vice president was Isabel Perón. ...

Governors

Governor of Buenos Aires Province The Governor of Buenos Aires Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) is a citizen of the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vic ...

María Eugenia Vidal María Eugenia Vidal (born 8 September 1973) is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non- Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she ...

Governor of Catamarca Province The Governor of Catamarca is a citizen of Catamarca Province, Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of Catamarca is Raúl Jalil. Governo ...

Lucía Corpacci Lucía Benigna Corpacci (born 4 December 1959) is an Argentine physician and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, she was governor of Catamarca Province from 2011 to 2019, the first female governor in Catamarca and the fourth female go ...

Governor of Chaco Province The Governor of Chaco ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia del Chaco) is a citizen of the Chaco Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. The current governor ...

Domingo Peppo Oscar Domingo Peppo (born 6 July 1958) is an Argentina, Argentine politician. He was elected governor of the Chaco Province in 2015 (with 55.42% of the vote). In the early 1980s, he received a degree in construction, hydraulic and civil engineeri ...

* Governor of Chubut Province: Mario Das Neves * Governor of Córdoba: Juan Schiaretti * Governor of Corrientes Province: Ricardo Colombi *

Governor of Entre Ríos Province The Governor of Entre Ríos ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Entre Ríos) is a citizen of the Entre Ríos Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Cur ...

Gustavo Bordet Gustavo Bordet (born February 21, 1962) is an Argentine politician, the governor of Entre Ríos Province. He has previously served as mayor of Concordia, Entre Ríos. Bordet was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos in 1962. He worked as a legislator ...

Governor of Formosa Province The Governor of Formosa ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Formosa) is a citizen of the Formosa Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Since 1995, the ...

Gildo Insfrán Gildo Insfrán (born 19 January 1951) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, who has been Governor of Formosa Province since 1995. Having been close to former President Carlos Menem, Insfrán later became close to President Néstor ...

Governor of Jujuy Province The Governor of Jujuy ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Jujuy) is a citizen of Jujuy Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of ...

: Gerardo Morales *

Governor of La Pampa Province The Governor of La Pampa Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de La Pampa) is a citizen of La Pampa Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding term. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently ...

Carlos Verna Carlos Alberto Verna (born 8 May 1946) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was governor of La Pampa Province twice, from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019. He was also a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms, and se ...

Governor of La Rioja Province The Governor of La Rioja ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de La Rioja) is a citizen of La Rioja Province in Argentina holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the go ...

Ricardo Quintela Ricardo Clemente Quintela (born 16 March 1960) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who is currently Governor of La Rioja Province, since 11 December 2019. He was previously Mayor of the City of La Rioja from 2003 to 2015, as well as ...

Governor of Mendoza Province The Constitution (1916) of Mendoza Province, Argentina, states that the executive power of the province will be led by a citizen chosen as a governor by the people for a four-year term, and not allowed to be re-elected for the immediately followi ...

: Alfredo Cornejo *

Governor of Misiones Province The Governor of Misiones Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Misiones) is the chief executive of Misiones, one of the federal Provinces of Argentina. This office is elected by the popular vote of the province for term of four years. Since ...

: Hugo Passalacqua * Governor of Neuquén Province:

Omar Gutiérrez Omar Gutiérrez (born 24 September 1967) is an Argentine politician, who serves as governor of the Neuquén Province. He is the former minister of economy of the previous governor, Jorge Sapag. With his victory in the 2015 elections, the Neuquén P ...

* Governor of Río Negro Province:

Alberto Weretilneck Alberto Weretilneck (born 11 October 1962) is an Argentine politician currently serving as Senator for Río Negro Province. Previously, from 2012 to 2019, he was the province's governor. Biography Born in El Bolsón, Río Negro, he joined the ...

* Governor of Salta Province: Juan Manuel Urtubey * Governor of San Juan Province: Sergio Uñac * Governor of San Luis Province: Alberto Rodríguez Saá * Governor of Santa Cruz Province:

Alicia Kirchner Alicia Margarita Kirchner (born 18 July 1946) is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she held under President ...

Governor of Santa Fe Province The Governor of Santa Fe ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Santa Fe) is a citizen of Santa Fe Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. Currently the governor of Santa Fe is Omar Perotti, of the Justicia ...

Miguel Lifschitz Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (13 September 1955 – 9 May 2021) was an Argentine politician and civil engineer of the Socialist Party who was Governor of Santa Fe Province from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, he was '' intendente'' (mayor) of Rosario, ...

* Governor of Santiago del Estero:

Claudia Ledesma Abdala Claudia Alejandra Ledesma Abdala de Zamora (born 14 September 1974) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero Province and as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate since 2019. A member of ...

* Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Rosana Bertone *

Governor of Tucumán A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

Juan Luis Manzur Juan Luis Manzur (born 8 January 1969) is an Argentine surgeon and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, he currently serves as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, under President Alberto Fernández. He previously served as Minister of ...

Vice Governors

*Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Daniel Salvador *Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Octavio Gutiérrez *Vice Governor of Chaco Province:

Daniel Capitanich Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

*Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Gustavo Canteros *Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Adán Bahl *Vice Governor of Formosa Province:

Floro Bogado Floro Eleuterio Bogado (February 20, 1939 – December 12, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, lawyer and diplomat. He served as Vice-Governor of Formosa Province under Gildo Insfrán from 1995 to 2017, and was Governor from 198 ...

*Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Carlos Haquim *Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Mariano Fernández *Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Néstor Bosetti *Vice Governor of Misiones Province:

Oscar Herrera Ahuad Oscar Herrera Ahuad (born 20 August 1971) is an Argentina, Argentine physician and politician who is currently Governor of Misiones Province, governor of Misiones Province, since 10 December 2019. Prior to that, he served as Vice Governor under ...

*Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Rolando Figueroa *Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Pedro Pesatti *Vice Governor of Salta Province: Miguel Isa *Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima *Vice Governor of San Luis Province:

Carlos Ponce Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...

*Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: Pablo González *Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Fascendini *Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: José Emilio Neder *Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Juan Carlos Arcando

Events

January

* 2: A band of thieves storm into the radio of the

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, with the goal of finding the '' desaparecidos'', initially, a ...

. * 6: Mauricio Macri lifts the custom restrictions on the imports of books. * 7: Protests of former employees of the Néstor Kirchner Cultural Centre. * 8: The

Buenos Aires Provincial Police The Buenos Aires Provincial Police (Spanish: ''Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires'', informally ''Policía Bonaerense'') is the police service responsible for policing the Province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is one of the biggest po ...

is removed from the pursuit of the fugitives of the

Triple crime The Triple crime ( es, Triple crimen) took place in General Rodríguez, Argentina, on August 13, 2008. It involves the torture and deaths of three pharmaceutical businessmen, Sebastián Forza, Damián Ferrón, and Leopoldo Bina, who had been repor ...

. * 9: Capture of the three fugitives of the

. * 13: Martín Sabbatella attempts to enter to the premises of the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services, but the police prevents him from doing so. * 16:

Milagro Sala Milagro Amalia Ángela Sala (born January 27, 1964) is a leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association,''We M ...

is arrested on charges of fraud and criminal conspiracy. * 19: Mauricio Macri takes part in the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

. * 31: A fire strikes the studios of

El Trece Channel 13 (known by its current brand name El Trece, stylized as eltrece) is an Argentine free-to-air television network and the flagship station of the network of the same name, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. It is owned by ...

and

Todo Noticias TN (formerly known as ''Todo Noticias'' (English: ''All News'') is an Argentine pay and streaming news television channel owned by the Clarín Group and its subsidiary, Artear. The channel began broadcasting on 1 June 1993, at 7:00 a.m. l ...

February

*6: 2016 Buenos Aires ePrix *16: State Visit of

Matteo Renzi Matteo Renzi (; born 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having bee ...

, Prime Minister of Italy. *24: State Visit of François Hollande, President of France.

March

* 23-24: State Visit of

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...

, President of the United States of America.

June

* 3: More than 300 thousand people attended the protest of #NiUnaMenos, which took place mainly in Buenos Aires but was also repeated throughout the whole country. * 15-16: Mauricio Macri visited Colombia in the form of a State Visit. * 17: 195th Anniversary of the Death of

Martín Miguel de Güemes Martín Miguel de Güemes (8 February 1785 – 17 June 1821) was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spain, Spanish royalist army during the Argentine War of Independence. Biography Güemes was bor ...

, a national holiday was made for the occasion.

July

* 2-6: Mauricio Macri went on a European Tour, having visited Paris (where he met President François Hollande), Brussels (where he met

Donald Tusk Donald Franciszek Tusk ( , ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic ...

as well as King Philippe and Queen Mathilde), and Berlin (where he met President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel). * 6: The National Congress had its formal session in the City of Tucumán for the first time in its history, as part of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. * 9: Bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence of Argentina. The main celebrations were held in the City of Tucumán. * 10: Celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence were held in Buenos Aires. * 29: State Visit of

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

, President of Mexico.

August

* 7-9: Official Visit of Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

September

* 4-5: Mauricio Macri attended to the 11th G-20 summit in Hangzhou, China. * 10: Discovering of the Gancedo meteorite, the second-largest known fragment of the meteor shower that fell in

Campo del Cielo Campo del Cielo refers to a group of iron meteorites and the area in Argentina where they were found. The site straddles the provinces of Chaco and Santiago del Estero, located north-northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina and approximately south ...

, in

Charata Charata is a city in the province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman ...

Chaco Province Chaco (; Wichi: ''To-kós-wet''), officially the Province of Chaco ( es, provincia del Chaco ), is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city, is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country. It is borde ...

. * 12-15: Argentina Business & Investment Forum

October

* 3: Visit of

Michel Temer Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from off ...

, President of Brazil. * 11:

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands Máxima (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander. Argentine by birth, she worked in marketing when she met Willem-Alexander, eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Beatrix ...

visits her home country in her role of UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development. * 15: Mauricio Macri visited Italy and the Vatican City, where he met Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

. The President assisted as well to the Canonization of José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero. * 19: #NiUnaMenos, a massive protest against femicides and gender violence, took place in all cities of Argentina for the second time of the year. * 24: State Visit of

Tabaré Vázquez Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (; ''Vázquez Rosas'' locally ; 17 January 19406 December 2020) was a Uruguayan politician who served as the 41st president of Uruguay from 2015 to 2020. He previously served from 2005 to 2010 as the 39th presiden ...

, President of Uruguay.

November

* 17: State Visit of

Justin Trudeau Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He has served as the prime minister of Canada since 2015 and as the leader of the Liberal Party since 2 ...

, Prime Minister of Canada. * 21: State Visit of

Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍晋三, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 20 ...

, Prime Minister of Japan.

December

* 1: Argentina assumes the pro-tempore Presidency of the

Mercosur The Southern Common Market, commonly known by Spanish abbreviation Mercosur, and Portuguese Mercosul, is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994. Its full members are Arge ...

after the suspension of Venezuela from the organization. * 16: State Visit of

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 201 ...

, President of Chile. * 21: Isela Costantini resigns as CEO of Aerolíneas Argentinas. * 26: Alfonso Prat-Gay, Minister of Treasury and Public Finances, announces his resignation. * 31: Alfonso Prat-Gay makes effective his resignation.

Deaths

* February 8:

Amelia Bence Amelia Bence (born María Amelia Batvinik; 13 November 1919 – 8 February 2016) was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60). Born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants, Bence began her ...

* March 8:

Aldo Ferrer Aldo Ferrer (April 15, 1927 – March 8, 2016) was an Argentine economist. He was one of the leading proponents of economic nationalism in Argentina. Early career Aldo Ferrer was born in Buenos Aires in 1927, and enrolled at the University of Bu ...

* March 10: Roberto Perfumo * April 13:

Mariano Mores Mariano Alberto Martínez (18 February 1918 13 April 2016), known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist. Biography Mariano Martínez was born in the San Telmo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. ...

* October 8: Maximiliano Giusti, 25, footballer (car accident)Ex Universitario de Deportes: Futbolista Maximiliano Giusti muere en accidente
* November 22: Carlos Fayt

References

External links

* {{Year in South America, 2016 2010s in Argentina Years of the 21st century in Argentina