2016 in Spain

The following lists events in the year 2016 in Spain.

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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.
3. Vargas, Valentín Fernández. "Gloria Begué Cantón". Diccionario biográfico español (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2022– via Real Academia de la Historia.