1916 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1916?
- January 9, 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
- February 4, 1916 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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 10, 1916 – The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
- 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 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
- 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
- June 1, 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- July 1, 1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
- August 2, 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- August 5, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- August 14, 1916 – Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
- August 25, 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
- August 28, 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- November 5, 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- November 14, 1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
- November 30, 1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- December 19, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
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