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 (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
 * 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)