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2016 in France

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Events from the year 2016 in France.

Incumbents

Events

  • 1 January –
  • 9 regions of France are suppressed, from 27 to 18.
  • Creation of the Métropole du Grand Paris.
  • Inauguration of the Université Grenoble Alpes.
  • 27 January – Jean-Jacques Urvoas is appointed to be Minister of Justice.
  • 11 February – Former Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development.
  • 26 February – 41st César Awards.
  • 8 March – Laurent Fabius takes over as President of the Constitutional Council; Michel Pinault and Corinne Luquiens enter as simple members.
  • 31 March – Nuit debout begins at the Place de la République, Paris.
  • 6 April – En Marche!, a liberal centrist political party, is founded by Emmanuel Macron in Amiens.
  • 20 May – Introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes and tobacco products.
  • 11 May – Beginning of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
  • 10 June – Opening of the UEFA Euro 2016 in 10 French cities.
  • 26 June – Referendum in the Loire-Atlantique department about the Aéroport du Grand Ouest; 55% of the voters accept the project.
  • 3 July – Opening of the LGV Est.
  • 13 July - In Magnanville, a police officer and his wife are fatally stabbed as they are leaving for home after work.{{Cite web |title=France's 2016 spent in shadow of terror attacks |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/frances-2016-spent-in-shadow-of-terror-attacks/717348 |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.aa.com.tr}}
  • 14 July – During Nice's Bastille Day celebrations a 19-ton van crashes into crowds, killing at least 84 people and injuring almost 200.{{Cite web |title=France's 2016 spent in shadow of terror attacks |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/frances-2016-spent-in-shadow-of-terror-attacks/717348 |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.aa.com.tr}}
  • 24 July – The 2016 Tour de France ends in Paris.
  • 26 July – A priest and other churchgoers are taken hostage by two knife-wielding attackers in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray before the police killed them. The archbishop of Rouen identifies the assassinated priest as 84-year-old Jacques Hamel.{{Citation |last=Nicholas of Mont-Saint-Jacques |title=113 Brother Nicholas of Mont-Rouen to Archbishop Thomas of Canterbury, Rouen, before 18 November 1166 |date=2000-12-21 |work=The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1162–1170 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00257274 |access-date=2025-02-05 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
  • 5 August - 177 athletes from France begin to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 5 August - The Braderie de Lille is cancelled due to terrorist threats.
  • 6 August – Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen.
  • 8 August – The El Khomri law is signed by President Hollande.
  • 12 August – The mayor of Cannes bans the Islamic Burkini the swimsuits, citing a possible link to Islamic extremism.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37056742|title=Cannes bans burkinis over suspected link to radical Islamism|date=12 August 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=12 August 2016}} At least 20 other French towns, including Nice, subsequently joined the ban.{{cite news|url=http://www.thelocal.fr/20160819/nice-joins-list-of-french-towns-to-ban-burqini|title=Nice joins growing list of French towns to ban burqini|date=19 August 2016|work=The Local.fr|access-date=22 August 2016}}{{cite news|work=The New York Times|author=ALISSA J. RUBIN|title=French 'Burkini' Bans Provoke Backlash as Armed Police Confront Beachgoers|date=24 August 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/world/europe/france-burkini.html}}
  • 30 August – Emmanuel Macron resigns from his position as Minister of the Economy.
  • 23 August – Laurent Wauquiez becomes president of The Republicans party ad interim.
  • 4 September – Notre Dame Cathedral bombing attempt.
  • 9 September – Opening of the fête de l'Humanité (3 days).
  • 1 October – Beginning of the 2016 Paris Motor Show.
  • 7 November – Yannick Jadot wins the Europe Ecology – The Greens primary and becomes the party's candidate for the 2017 French presidential election.
  • 13 November – A thousands of French people marks the first anniversary of last year attacks in Paris since World War II.
  • 27 November – Former Prime Minister François Fillon wins the right-wing primary for the 2017 French presidential election.
  • 1 December – President François Hollande announces he will not seek reelection in April 2017.
  • 6 December – Bernard Cazeneuve is appointed to be prime minister.
  • 19 December – The Law Court of the Republic founds IMF managing director Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence during her time as Minister of Finance.

Deaths

= January =

= February =

= March =

  • 1 March{{spaced endash}}Jean Miotte, abstract painter (b. 1926)
  • 1 March{{spaced endash}}Carole Achache, writer, photographer and actress (b. 1952){{Cite web |last=Hunter |first=Allan |date=21 May 2023 |title='Little Girl Blue': Cannes Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/little-girl-blue-cannes-review/5182211.article |website=Screen Daily |access-date=22 May 2023 |archive-date=22 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522023028/https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/little-girl-blue-cannes-review/5182211.article |url-status=live}}

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= May =

  • 1 May{{spaced endash}}Jean-Marie Girault, politician (b. 1926)
  • 5 May{{spaced endash}}Siné, political cartoonist (b. 1928)

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See also

References

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