2016

Timeline

Godzilla firing his atomic breath (Shin Godzilla)

2015 ← 2016 → 2017

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous • Last Ice Age

BCE: 30,000 • 8000 • 4th millennium • 1100 • 218

Before 1800: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1357 • 1502 • 1556 • 1588 • 1605 • 1749

1800s: 1804 • 1805 • 1850 • 1851 • 1853 • 1862 • 1875 • 1881 • 1886 • 1888 • 1890 • 1893 • 1894 • 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899

1900–1999

'00s: 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909

'10s: 1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919

'20s: 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929

'30s: 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939

'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000–present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 • 2026

Future

2027 • 2028 • 2029 • 2030 • 2031 • 2034 • 2035 • 2036 • 2039 • 2041 • 2042 • 2043 • 2045 • 2046 • 2047 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

In the real world

• The Rosen Publishing Group release Greatest Movie Monsters: Godzilla.
• Lobster Films completes a new restoration of The Lost World using eleven different print sources.

March

• 11 March: 10 Cloverfield Lane is released in the United States.
• 11 March: Keith Emerson passes away at age 71.
• 30 March: IDW Publishing releases the first issue of Godzilla: Oblivion.

April

• 20 April: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Oblivion #2.
• 21 April: Godzilla Kaiju Collection ends service.

May

• 18 May: Yumi Ito dies at 75.
• 25 May: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Oblivion #3.

June

• 9 June: Yosensha publishes Shinji Nishikawa: Drawing Book of Godzilla.
• 14 June: Yumi Shirakawa passes away at the age of 79.
• 15 June: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla Treasury Edition, a collection of Godzilla comics written and illustrated by James Stokoe.
• 22 June: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Oblivion #4.
• 28 June: IDW Publishing releases volume 1 of Godzilla: Complete Rulers of Earth.

July

• 12 July: Monster Picture Story: Godzilla is republished as a part of the Godzilla All Movie DVD Collector's Box.
• 13 July: Skull Island: Reign of Kong officially opens at Universal's Islands of Adventure after a month of soft opening previews.
• 14 July: Toho releases the 4K restoration of King Kong vs. Godzilla to Japanese theaters.
• 23 July: Godzilla made an appearance before Kawasaki Frontale hosted FC Tokyo in a Japanese J-League capital derby.
• 27 July: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Oblivion #5, the final issue in the miniseries.
• 29 July: Shin Godzilla is released in Japan. The soundtrack for Shin Godzilla receives a physical release. Godzilla 1990 is republished. Kodansha publishes Godzilla Kaiju Battle Encyclopedia.

August

• 6 August: Kadokawa publishes the first edition of Shin Godzilla Walker: The New Legend of the King of the Monsters.
• 8 August: Red Bitch Music releases the soundtrack of Rodan and the soundtrack of Varan for digital download in the United States.
• 16 August: Kensho Yamashita dies at age 72.
• 24 August: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rage Across Time #1.

September

• 4 September: Yosensha publishes the fourth edition of All Toho Monsters Pictorial Book.
• 25 September: Chikumashobo republishes a second edition of Godzilla: Tokyo and Osaka Editions.
• 26 September: Kadokawa publishes the third edition of Shin Godzilla Walker: The New Legend of the King of the Monsters.

October

• 5 October: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rage Across Time #2.
• 11 October: Shin Godzilla begins a limited release in the United States. The soundtrack for Shin Godzilla receives a digital release.
• 13 October: Sony releases the Shin Godzilla Special Demo Content virtual reality game.
• 19 October: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rage Across Time #3.

November

• 16 November: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rage Across Time #4.
• 23 November: IDW Publishing releases Godzilla: Rage Across Time #5, the final issue in the miniseries as well as the final IDW Godzilla comic until 2021.

December

• The free-to-play web game Shin Arima is released, before being taken down later that month.
• 15 December: Yukiko Takayama, the screenwriter for Terror of Mechagodzilla, publishes the unofficial short story sequel, 2075: Meister Titano's Counterattack.
• 21 December: Hobby Japan publishes Godzilla Against Type-3 Kiryu (Mechagodzilla) Completion.
• 29 December: Ground Works publishes The Art of Shin Godzilla.

In fiction

• When Monarch discovers an extraordinary, three-headed superspecies sealed beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, Dr. Vivienne Graham leads the effort to build a covert containment and research facility around the dormant creature. (Godzilla: King of the Monsters)
• Ishiro Serizawa, Vivienne Graham, Ilene Andrews, and Emma Russell visit Ghidorah's resting place and determine the existence of a "quintessential Titan" that caused the Last Ice Age. (Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization)
• Destoroyah kills 38,889 people in the "Azusa demolition". ("How to Use the Los Angeles Metro to Survive a Godzilla Attack")

Videos

23 July - Godzilla tries to take a penalty before a league match in Japan Godzilla and Sadako with actress/singer Shoko Nakagawa

References

This is a list of references for 2016. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

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