1916 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1916?
- January 18, 1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
- February 3, 1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
- February 4, 1916 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 9, 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
- March 16, 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
- March 22, 1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
- April 9, 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- April 24, 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship .
- April 25, 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- May 12, 1916 – James Connolly was sat on a chair and shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, after his role in the Easter Uprising
- May 31, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
- June 24, 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
- July 15, 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- July 30, 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- September 27, 1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
- October 7, 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- November 1, 1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- December 23, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
- December 30, 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
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