2016
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This article is about the year 2016. For the number, see 2016 (number). For other uses, see 2016 (disambiguation).
2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
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2016 was designated as:
- International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
- International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2]