1916 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1916?
- February 4, 1916 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
- April 8, 1916 – In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
- April 9, 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- April 25, 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
- June 5, 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- July 14, 1916 – Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
- July 30, 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- August 2, 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- August 4, 1916 – World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
- August 14, 1916 – Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
- August 27, 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
- September 7, 1916 – Federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- 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.
- October 16, 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- October 27, 1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- November 1, 1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- November 5, 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- November 30, 1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- December 23, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
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