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1916: Encyclopedia - 1916

1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist 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 - ...

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1916: Encyclopedia II - 1916 - Events 1916 - January-February. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist 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 ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Battle of the Somme 1916

The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties. The British and French forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25 mile (40 km) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds. ...

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1916: Encyclopedia II - Caucasus Campaign - 1916

Early in 1916, General Yudenich, commanded a winter assault on the Turkish fort-city of Erzurum. The winter attack was successful and after a short battle, the Russians captured the city. They continued their offensive and captured the ancient port city of Trebizond in April. The Turkish army, under a new leader, Kerim, tried to recover their Armenian territory in a summer offensive but their efforts met with defeat at the Battle_of_Erzincan in July 1915. The only bright spot for the Turks was General Mustafa Kemal's conquest of two small to ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Beaumont-Hamel

Beaumont-Hamel is a commune of the Somme département, in northern France. Population: 225. Postal code: 80 300 Area: 8.31 km² Altitude: 75 m Beaumont-Hamel - History. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, 800 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment rose from the British trenches and went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel, nine kilometres north of Albert in France. The next day, only 68 men answered the regimental role call. 255 ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States. He was born near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1872. Fairbanks was an agent of the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in Cleveland, Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio ba ...

1916: Encyclopedia - Battle of Jutland

The Battle of Jutland or Battle of the Skagerrak (Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland/Søslaget om Skagerrak; German: Schlacht von Jütlan/Skagerrakschlacht), was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31–June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. The combatants were the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, and the Royal Nav ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Aristide Briand

Aristide Briand (March 28, 1862 – March 7, 1932) was a French statesman. He was born at Nantes, of a bourgeois family. He studied law, and soon went into politics, associating himself with the most advanced movements, writing articles for the anarchist journal Le Peuple, and directing the Lanterne for some time. From this he passed to the Petite République, leaving it to found < ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith (Árt Ó Gríofa in Irish) (March 31, 1871 – August 12, 1922) was the founder and first leader of Sinn Féin. He served as President of Dáil Éireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Arthur Griffith - Early life. Arthur Griffith was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 31, 1871, of distant Welsh lineage, and was educated by the Christian Brothers of Ireland, a Catholic Religious order. He ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Western Front World War I

The Western Front line for most of World War I extended relatively statically from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier, most of Belgium, all of Luxembourg, and a few important industrial regions of France remained under German control. In addition to the massive casualties and virtually stagnant front lines, the western front saw the introduction of new military technology, including poison gas and tank warfare. Although few territorial gains were made throughout much of the conflict, this front would prove decisive. The ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - David Lloyd George

The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the last member of the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. David Lloyd George - Upbringing. Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government. In his early life he lived in poverty and so moved with his mother to live in L ...

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1916: Encyclopedia - Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by nihilism, deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, chance, randomness, and the rejection of the prevailing standards in art. Dada - Overview. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary j ...

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1916: Encyclopedia II - 1916 in aviation - Events

January January 12 - German aces Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke, with 8 kills, are the first pilots awarded with Pour le Mérite ("the Blue Max") January 29 - the second and last Zeppelin raid on Paris inflicts 54 casualties. March March 16 - US military aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico. March 18 - German ...

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