2016 in Italy

Incumbents

• President: Sergio Mattarella
• Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi, Paolo Gentiloni

Events

January

• 4 January : the car manufacturer Ferrari enters the Milan Stock Exchange in Piazza Affari with its own share.
• 9 January: Murder of Ashley Ann Olsen in Florence
• 21-24 January: 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 6 in Rasen-Antholz

February

• 3 February: the murder of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher kidnapped on the previous 25 January, is discovered in Egypt

April

• 2 April - 12 September - Triennial 2016
• 4-10 April - 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group B in Asiago

May

• 6-29 May: 2016 Giro d'Italia
• 11 May: the Cirinnà law for same-sex civil unions is approved.
• 29 May: Murder of Sara Di Pietrantonio in Rome

June

• 1 June: inauguration of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest high-speed rail tunnel in the world.
• 2 June: 70th anniversary of the Italian Republic.

July

• 12 July - Andria-Corato train collision

August

• 21 August: Olympic Italy concludes the Rio Olympics, totaling 28 medals.
• 24 August: August 2016 Central Italy earthquake

October

• 26 October: earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale in Central Italy with its epicenter between Castelsantangelo sul Nera, Visso and Ussita.
• 30 October: Earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale in Central Italy with its epicenter between Norcia and Preci.

December

• 7 December: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigns in the hands of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella following the defeat in the referendum on 4 December.
• 12 December: Paolo Gentiloni assumes the office of President of the Council of Ministers.
• 22 December: the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway is completed and renamed the Mediterranean motorway.

Deaths

• January 7 – Valerio Zanone, 79, politician
• January 14 – Franco Citti, 80, actor
• January 19 – Ettore Scola, 84, director
• February 19 – Umberto Eco, 82, philosopher and semiotician
• March 25 – Paolo Poli, 86, theatre actor
• May 19 – Marco Pannella, 86, politician
• May 28 – Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, actor and director
• June 5 – Gianluca Buonanno, 50, politician
• June 27 – Bud Spencer, 86, actor
• July 13 – Bernardo Provenzano, 83, criminal and chief of the Sicilian Mafia
• September 16 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 95, former President
• October 13 – Dario Fo, 90, actor and Nobel Prize laureate
• November 1 – Tina Anselmi, 89, politician
• November 8 – Umberto Veronesi, 90, scientist