2016 in Germany

January

• 1 January – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany^[1]
• 30–31 January - 2016 FIL World Luge Championships in Königssee ^[2]

February

• 9 February - Bad Aibling rail accident
• 3–7 February - 2016 German Masters
• 11–21 February - 66th Berlin International Film Festival
• 25 February: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

March

• CeBIT in Hanover
• ITB Berlin in Berlin
• Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
• Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• 13 March: Baden-Württemberg state election, 2016
• 13 March: Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016
• 13 March: Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2016
• Böhmermann affair

April

• Hanover Messe in Hanover
• Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin

May

• 10 May: Munich knife attack
• 13 May: Killing of Niklas Pöhler

June

• Kiel Week in Kiel
• 2016 Düsseldorf terrorism plot
• 9-12: 2016 Bilderberg Conference in Dresden

July

• 14–17 July - 2016 Extreme Sailing Series in Hamburg
• 18 July: 2016 Würzburg train attack
• 22 July: 2016 Munich shooting
• 24 July: 2016 Ansbach bombing, 2016 Reutlingen machete attack

August

• Hanse Sail in Rostock
• Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

September

• ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
• Gamescom in Cologne
• Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
• September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
• 1 September: in the Germany state of Thuringia. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician Wiebke Muhsal wears a Niqab to the Thuringian Landtag (state parliament) in a protest calling for a ban on the face covering.^[3]
• 4 September: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2016
  • The Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was previously unrepresented in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gains its first state seats.
  • The far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) loses its last state representation.
• 18 September: Berlin state election, 2016
• 28 September: Following a civil trial in Frankfurt, Claudia Dinkel is ordered to pay compensation to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann for her false rape accusations against him in 2010. The court found Dinkel guilty of indirect deprivation of liberty through a knowingly untrue criminal complaint, establishing that her injuries had been self inflicted.^[4]

October

• 8 October: 2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot
• Frankfurt Book Fair

November

• 27 November: Nico Rosberg wins the Championship against his teammate Lewis Hamilton, in Abu Dhabi.^[5] A week later, Rosberg announces his retirement,^[6] allowing Valtteri Bottas to take his seat for next year.

December

• 19 December: 2016 Berlin truck attack