2016 in Belarus
Events from the year '''2016 in Belarus'''
Incumbents
President: Alexander LukashenkoPrime Minister: Andrei KobyakovEvents
- 15 January - the geostationary telecommunications satellite Belintersat-1 was launched for the Belarusian government's company Belintersat.
- 5-21 August - Belarus at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 124 competitors in 18 sports.
- 11 September - 2016 Belarusian parliamentary election
Deaths
- 29 March - Nil Hilevich, poet.
- 9 June - Stepan Bondarev, Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general
- 26 June - Sergei Cortez, composer.
- 26 June - Rostislav Yankovsky, actor
- 16 July - Oleg Syrokvashko, footballer
- 20 July - Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian-born Russian journalist
- October - Svetlana Penkina, actress
- 17 December - Leanid Marakou, journalist and historian