IMO yes, 2016 is the year of bitcoin.
If the 2016 will be the year of bitcoin the other ones which becomes after this year will be the years of the dead of it. Be the year of bitcoin mean that this year will happen and will verified the maximum for it. All the other ones after this year bitcoin must stay where was in 2016 or will go down. Cannot go higher because has its year: 2016.
I think that the year of bitcoin is yet to come. It will be not only one but every new year. Every new year I hope that will be the year of bitcoin. In the meaning that always, every new year, will see a new higher price for it. Which will stop (if will) in a remote, very remote, future year.
Bitcoin have been increasing lately this year, 2015, which means by 2016 it will rise to a higher price than what happened in this year. The prime reason backing my view is simply halving has been scheduled to happen by July 2016. So, bitcoin will measure new heights this year for sure.