page_title: 2016 in Europe
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in Europe / Events / May
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Rassemblement "Nuit Debout" à Paris le 62 mars.
context_page_description: This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016.
context_section_description: 11 May – Italy becomes the last Western European country to legalize same-sex civil unions.
  14 May – Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song "1944", wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
  19 May – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes off the Greek island of Karpathos, killing all 66 people on board.
  22 May
  A gunman fires shots into a small crowd attending an open air concert in Nenzing, Austria, killing two people and wounding 11 others before shooting himself to death.
  Independent Green Alexander Van der Bellen is narrowly elected President of Austria.
  29 May – 17 people die in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kiev.
caption: Violence during Paris anti-labor reform protests, 1 May
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