2016 in Italy

The following lists events that have happened in 2016 in the Italian Republic.

Incumbents

 * President: Sergio Mattarella
 * Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi (until 12 December), Paolo Gentiloni (starting 12 December)

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.

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