2016 in Spain

Incumbents

• Monarch: Felipe VI
• 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, Carles Puigdemont
• 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
• 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