2016 in France
Events: Filled in 0 bare reference(s) with reFill 2
| ← Previous revision | Revision as of 15:13, 21 April 2026 | ||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
* 26 June – Referendum in the [[Loire-Atlantique]] department about the [[Aéroport du Grand Ouest]]; 55% of the voters accept the project. |
* 26 June – Referendum in the [[Loire-Atlantique]] department about the [[Aéroport du Grand Ouest]]; 55% of the voters accept the project. |
||
* 3 July – Opening of the [[LGV Est]]. |
* 3 July – Opening of the [[LGV Est]]. |
||
* 13 July - In Magnanville, a police officer and his wife are fatally stabbed as they are leaving for home after work.{{Cite web |title=France's 2016 spent in shadow of terror attacks |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/frances-2016-spent-in-shadow-of-terror-attacks/717348 |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.aa.com.tr}} |
* 13 July - In Magnanville, a police officer and his wife are fatally stabbed as they are leaving for home after work. |
||
* 14 July – During Nice's Bastille Day celebrations a 19-ton van crashes into crowds, killing at least 84 people and injuring almost 200. |
* 14 July – During Nice's Bastille Day celebrations a 19-ton van crashes into crowds, killing at least 84 people and injuring almost 200.name="auto"/> |
||
* 24 July – The [[2016 Tour de France]] ends in Paris. |
* 24 July – The [[2016 Tour de France]] ends in Paris. |
||
* 26 July – A priest and other churchgoers are taken hostage by two knife-wielding attackers in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray before the police killed them. The archbishop of Rouen identifies the assassinated priest as 84-year-old Jacques Hamel.{{cite book |last=Nicholas of Mont-Saint-Jacques |title=The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1162–1170 |date=2000-12-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-820892-1 |editor-last1=Duggan |editor-first1=Anne J. |chapter=113 Brother Nicholas of Mont-Rouen to Archbishop Thomas of Canterbury, Rouen, before 18 November 1166 |doi=10.1093/oseo/instance.00257274}} |
* 26 July – A priest and other churchgoers are taken hostage by two knife-wielding attackers in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray before the police killed them. The archbishop of Rouen identifies the assassinated priest as 84-year-old Jacques Hamel.{{cite book |last=Nicholas of Mont-Saint-Jacques |title=The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 1162–1170 |date=2000-12-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-820892-1 |editor-last1=Duggan |editor-first1=Anne J. |chapter=113 Brother Nicholas of Mont-Rouen to Archbishop Thomas of Canterbury, Rouen, before 18 November 1166 |doi=10.1093/oseo/instance.00257274}} |
||
