2016 in Nauru

Events in the year 2016 in Nauru.

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Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2016 Timeline of Nauruan history

Incumbents

• President
  • Baron Waqa
• Speaker of Parliament
  • Ludwig Scotty (until 13 July)
  • Cyril Buraman (after 13 July)

Events

• 4 February - Lucina Detsiogo is crowned Miss Nauru 2016.^[1]
• 8 April - Nauruan Ambassador to Taiwan Ludwig Keke is awarded by Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou with the Order of Brilliant Star.^[2]
• 13 May - Nauru holds its first citizenship ceremony, in which 35 people gain Nauruan citizenship.^[3]
• 27 May - Parliament passes a bill replacing their criminal code, and in doing so decriminalises homosexuality and suicide, and outlaws marital rape, among several other things.^[4]
• 9 July - Parliamentary elections are held, with President Waqa being re-elected.^[5]
• 10 July - MP Roland Kun flees Nauru to New Zealand after alleged involvement in capital protest in 2015.^[6]
• 11 July - The parliamentary election in the Aiwo Constituency are held, following a legal dispute, resulting in the elections of Milton Dube and Aaron Cook.^[7]
• 13 July - Cyril Buraman is elected speaker by the parliament.^[7]
• 15 July - The new cabinet of Nauru is sworn in.^[8]
• 27 July - President Tsai Ing-wen receives ambassador from Nauru to Taiwan Chitra Jeremaih.^[9]
• 12 November - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces that Australia and the United States have made a one-off resettlement agreement regarding refugees held in Nauru and Manus Island.^[10]

Deaths

• 29 September - Joni Madraiwiwi, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru (2014–2016), in Suva, Fiji^[11]
• 8 December - Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, MP, government minister, and former Speaker of Parliament, in Moscow, Russia^[12]