page_title: 2016 in Europe
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in Europe / Events / July
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le semi-remorque arrêté sur la Promenade des Anglais (Nice) le 15 juillet 2016 vers 07:00 heure, après l'attentat qui a fait plus de 84 morts la veille au soir.
context_page_description: This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016.
context_section_description: 1 July – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.
  2 July – A gunman shoots five people dead and wounds 22 more after opening fire in a café in Žitište, Serbia.
  8–9 July – Leaders of NATO member states meet at the two-day summit in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
  12 July – 27 people are killed and dozens more injured in a head-on collision involving two passenger trains in the Apulia region of Italy.
  13 July – Theresa May replaces David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  14 July – At least 86 people are killed after a truck is deliberately driven into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France.
  15–16 July – At least 265 people are killed and more than 3,000 members of Turkey's armed forces arrested after an attempted military coup.
  21 July – Rioting erupts in the Armenian capital of Yerevan as protesters clash with police over the government's handling of a four-day hostage crisis.
  22 July – A gunman opens fire near a shopping mall in Munich, Germany, killing 9 people and injuring 27.
caption: The scene of Nice attack on 15 July
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