2016 in Hungary

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Hungary.

Incumbents

16 January – Service begins on the connected Buda tram network (Budai fonódó villamoshálózat).
28 February – Hungarian drama film Son of Saul, directed by László Nemes, wins the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, becoming the first Hungarian film to win the award since István Szabó's Mephisto in 1981.
14 March – Renovated tram underpass under Chain Bridge opens
12 April – The National Assembly repeals a law enacted in March 2015, which banned the majority of retail stores and commercial establishments in the country from opening on Sundays. The decision came into effect four days later.
2 October – 2016 Hungarian migrant quota referendum: 3,362,224 or 98.36% of valid votes reject EU's mandatory migrant quotas, but results are invalid due to turnout below 50%.

January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer (b. 1930)
January 7
- István Komáromi, politician (b. 1943)
- János György Szilágyi, historian (b. 1918)
January 17 – Jenő Váncsa, politician (b. 1928)

March 7 – Béla Kuharszki, footballer (b. 1940)
March 13 – József Verebes, footballer and coach (b. 1941)
March 17 – Zoltán Kamondi, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1960)
March 20 – Sándor Csjef, amateur boxer (b. 1950)
March 25 – Imre Pozsgay, politician (b. 1933)
March 30 – Marianne Krencsey, actress (b. 1931)
March 31
- Béla Biszku, politician (b. 1921)
- Imre Kertész, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)