1916: Encyclopedia II - 1916 - Events

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 storm helped the Dutch parliament to decide to build the Afsluitdijk and build polders in the current IJsselmeer.
• January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed
• January 18 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near Baxter, Stone County, Missouri.
• January 23 to 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 declares the federal income tax void
• 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 2 - Blizzard in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• February 3 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down.
• February 9 - 6.00 PM - 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.

1916 - 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 - Sir Ernest Shackleton and two of his companions reach a whaling station to get help for the rest of the crew of Endurance.
• 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 Orkneys, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard
• June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. [1]

1916 - July-August

• 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. The United States is still unwilling to join in the war with Britain, Canada, Australia and the other commonwealth countries.
• 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
• 2 August - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1916 - October-December

• October 27 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
• November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joined act of emperors of Germany and Austria
• November 7 - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 7 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
• November 18 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
• November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Stürgh, prime minister of Austria
• December 12 - In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
• December 30 - Humberto Gómez and his mercenaries seize Arauca in Colombia and declare Republic of Arauca. He proceeds to pillage the region before fleeing to Venezuela
• December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.
• December 31 - The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the nation at the time, burns to the ground.

1916 - Unknown dates

• Hipolito Irigoyen elected as the President of Argentina.
• Blaise Diagre, first black representative of Senegal in the French parliament
• Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure is published.
• Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
• Food is rationed in Germany.
• Ernst Rudin published his initial results on the genetics of schizophrenia.
• The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people.
• Woman's International Bowling Congress established in the US.
• Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
• Sopwith Camel aircraft is introduced to combat the German-built Fokker fighter aircraft.
• Louis Enricht claims he has a substitute for gasoline
• Gustav Holst composes The Planets, Opus 32
• Bray Studios created the Farmer Alfalfa series, the first of theTerrytoons.
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers founded

1916 - Ongoing events

• World War I (1914-1918)
• Mexican Revolution

1916 - Disputed events

• Armenian Genocide (1915-1918)
• July 16 - Hellenic Holocaust
• November 30 - Hellenic Holocaust

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