2016 in Spain

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Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
See also:	Other events of 2016 List of years in Spain

Incumbents

• Monarch: Felipe VI^[1]
• Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy

Regional presidents

• Andalusia: Susana Diaz
• Aragón: Javier Lambán
• Asturias: Javier Fernandez
• Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
• Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
• Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle
• Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
• Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
• Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera
• Catalonia: Artur Mas (until 11 January), Carles Puigdemont (starting 11 January)
• Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
• Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
• La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros
• Community of Madrid: Cristina Cifuentes
• Region of Murcia: Pedro Antonio Sánchez
• Navarre: Uxue Barkos
• Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
• Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
• Melilla: Juan José Imbroda

Events

• February 6 – 30th Goya Awards in Madrid^[2]
• April 9-15 – 2016 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A in Jaca
• 15 May – After the crash between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, Max Verstappen wins the Spanish Grand Prix, marking him F1's youngest ever winner and the first Dutch winner.

Deaths

• December 27 – Gloria Begué Cantón, professor, jurist, senator and magistrate (b. 1931)^[3]

See also

• 2016 in Spanish television
• List of Spanish films of 2016

References

1. "Felipe VI | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
2. Mayorga, John Hopewell,Emilio (14 December 2015). "Cruz, Binoche, Darin, Robbins in Spanish Academy Goya Running". Variety. Retrieved 11 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. Vargas, Valentín Fernández. "Gloria Begué Cantón". Diccionario biográfico español (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2022 – via Real Academia de la Historia.