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1916

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Categories: 1916

Years :	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

1916 by topic:
Arts
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Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
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Establishments - Disestablishments

**1916 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1916 MCMXVI
Ab urbe condita	2669
Armenian calendar	1365
Chinese calendar	4612 – 4613 乙卯 – 丙辰
Hebrew calendar	5676 – 5677
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1971 – 1972
- Shaka Samvat	1838 – 1839
- Kali Yuga	5017 – 5018
Iranian calendar	1294 – 1295
Islamic calendar	1334 – 1335
Japanese calendar	Taishō 5
Runic calendar	2166

1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes
5 External links

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Events

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January-February

January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.
January 1 - Impressionist painter Monet paints 'Water Lilies'.
January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California
January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli
January 13/14 - A heavy storm sweeps through the Zuiderzee in the Netherlands, causing extensive damage. This storm helped the Dutch parliament to decide to build the Afsluitdijk and build polders in the current IJsselmeer.
January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is formed
January 18 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near Baxter, Stone County, Missouri.
January 23 to January 24 In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7°C to -48.8°C (44°F to -56°F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
January 24 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad the Supreme Court of the United States upholds the federal income tax
January 28 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
January 29 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
February 3 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down.
February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism (according to Hans Arp
February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert
February 21 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.

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March-June

March 1 - Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster term in office ends
March 6 - Sydney conservatorium of music in Australia accepts first students
March 8-9 night - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17. Garrison of US 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
March 15 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border border to pursue Pancho Villa; 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.
March 16 - US 7th and 10th cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crosses the border to join the hunt of Villa
March 19 - First United States air combat mission in history as eight US planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa
March 22 - Marriage of Edith Bratt and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. They would serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren.
April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
April 27 - Battle of Hulluch in World War One, 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division decimated in one of the most heavily-concentrated gas attacks of the war
May 5 - United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
May 20 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
May 21 - Britain initiates daylight saving time.
May 31 - June 1 - Battle of Jutland
June 5 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 5 - HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard
June 8 - The Brusilov Offensive, the height of Russian operations in WWI, begins with the breakthrough of Austro-Hungarian lines.
June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. [1]

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July-September

July 1 - November 18: More than 1 million soldiers die during The Battle of the Somme including 60,000 soldiers from the British Commonwealth on the first day.
July 1 through July 12, at least one shark mauled five swimmers along 80 miles of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event was the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
July 15 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 22 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it)
July 29 - In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson - 233 dead
September - Bulgaria takes Dobruja from the Romanians.