Incumbents
Events
January
*
January 20 — to
President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis
Raimonds Vējonis (born 15 June 1966) is a Latvian politician who served as the 9th President of Latvia from 2015 to 2019 and the president of the Latvian Basketball Association since 2020.
He is a member of the Latvian Green Party, part of the ...
was performed heart surgery
August
*August 5–21 - Latvia competed in the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
December
* December 3–11 —
2016 Men's World Floorball Championships
The 2016 Men's World Floorball Championships were the 11th World Championships in men's floorball. The tournament took place in Latvia in December 2016.
Qualification
Qualification events were conducted between 2 and 14 February 2016.
Venues ...
take place in Latvia.
Deaths
*
January 4 —
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1942)
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April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...
—
Juris Ekmanis, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (b. 1941)
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April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
*1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern h ...
—
Ojārs Grīnbergs, singer (b. 1942)
*
August 22
Events Pre-1600
* 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
*1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland a ...
— Jānis Reinis, actor (b. 1960)
*November 29 — Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, lawyer, writer, poet, and politician (b. 1927)
References
{{Year in Europe, 2016
2016 in Latvia,
2010s in Latvia
Years of the 21st century in Latvia
2016 in Europe, Latvia
2016 by country, Latvia