1916

1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar)

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1913 1914 1915 - 1916 - 1917 1918 1919

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s

align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Events

January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'.
January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli
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 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
February 21 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.

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 9 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
March 15 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho 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 Lthien and Beren.
April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
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. Britain initiates daylight savings 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. http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-507.html

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 15 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 16 - Hellenic Holocaust: The entire Greek population of Sinope and the coastal region of the county of Kastanome is either exiled or killed.
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.

November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Strgh, prime minister of Austria
December 12 - In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
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.
November - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election
November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joined act of emperors of Germany and Austria.
November 7 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
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 22 - Jack London, American novelist, dies at the age of 40.
November 30 - Hellenic Holocaust: According to the Austrian consul: "on 26 November Rafet Bey (Turkish Minister of the Interior) told me: "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November.""
December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.

Woman's International Bowling Congress established in the US.
Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure published
Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
Food rationed in Germany
Sopwith Camel aircraft is introduced to combat the German-built Fokker fighter aircraft.
Hipolito Irigoyen elected as the president of Argentina
The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people
Blaise Diagre, first black representative of Senegal in the French parliament