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Date	Event
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.
January 10, 1916	World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army.
January 12, 1916	Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
January 24, 1916	In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
January 27, 1916	World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.
January 28, 1916	The Canadian province of Manitoba grants women the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections (although still excluding women of Indigenous or Asian heritage), marking the first time women in Canada are granted voting rights.
February 3, 1916	The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.
February 21, 1916	World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
February 24, 1916	The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
February 25, 1916	In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
February 27, 1916	Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
February 29, 1916	Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
February 29, 1916	In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
March 8, 1916	World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
March 9, 1916	Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
March 16, 1916	The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
March 20, 1916	Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
March 22, 1916	Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Presidency.
April 10, 1916	The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
April 18, 1916	White war on the Italian front (World War I): during a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
April 24, 1916	Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
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 crew of the sunken Endurance.
April 25, 1916	Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
April 26, 1916	Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge
April 29, 1916	World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
April 29, 1916	Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
May 6, 1916	Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
May 6, 1916	Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
May 10, 1916	Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
May 16, 1916	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
May 31, 1916	World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
June 1, 1916	Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
June 3, 1916	The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
June 4, 1916	World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
June 5, 1916	Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
June 5, 1916	World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
June 10, 1916	The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
June 15, 1916	United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
June 24, 1916	Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
June 29, 1916	British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
June 30, 1916	World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
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.
July 7, 1916	The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
July 14, 1916	Battle of Delville Wood begins as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.[23]
July 15, 1916	In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 19, 1916	World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
July 22, 1916	Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
July 30, 1916	The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
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 16, 1916	The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
August 17, 1916	World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
August 25, 1916	The United States National Park Service is created.
August 27, 1916	World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
August 28, 1916	World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
August 28, 1916	World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
August 29, 1916	The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
August 30, 1916	Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
September 3, 1916	World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
September 7, 1916	US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
September 8, 1916	In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
September 11, 1916	The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
September 15, 1916	World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
September 17, 1916	World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
September 19, 1916	World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
September 27, 1916	Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
October 7, 1916	Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
October 16, 1916	Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
October 27, 1916	Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
November 1, 1916	In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
November 5, 1916	The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
November 5, 1916	The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
November 7, 1916	Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
November 7, 1916	Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
November 7, 1916	Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
November 13, 1916	World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
November 18, 1916	World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
November 19, 1916	Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
November 21, 1916	Mines from SM U-73 sink HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
November 30, 1916	Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
December 6, 1916	World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
December 18, 1916	World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.
December 23, 1916	World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
December 30, 1916	Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
December 30, 1916	The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.