2016 in Poland

Incumbents

Events

January

• 1 January – Four localities were granted town rights: Jaraczewo, Lubycza Królewska, Siedliszcze, and Urzędów.

• 15–31 January — Poland hosts the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.

April

• 26 April – ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle won their sixth Polish Volleyball Championship defeating Resovia in the finals (see 2015–16 PlusLiga).

June

• 2 June – Stelmet Zielona Góra won their third Polish Basketball Championship defeating Rosa Radom in the finals (see 2015–16 PLK season).

August

• 5–21 August — 87 athletes from Poland compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

September

• 3 September — Poland win the eighteenth edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians in Cologne, Germany.
• 25 September — Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski won their ninth Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating KS Toruń in the finals (see 2016 Polish speedway season).

December

• From 8 December — State Owned PZU together with Polish Development Fund acquired Bank Pekao, Poland's second largest bank previously owned by UniCredit, by buying a 32.8 per cent stake in the bank for the amount of PLN 10.6 billion (EUR 2.6 billion).
• From 16 December — protests against law limiting of freedom of the press.

Deaths

• 1 April – Artur Górski MP (2005–2016)

References

See also

• 2016 in Polish television