1916

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

Years:
1913 1914 1915 - 1916 - 1917 1918 1919
Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1916 in aviation
1916 in film
1916 in literature
1916 in music
1916 in science
1916 in sports
1916 state leaders
1916 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of State

Events

January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli
January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed
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 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 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
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 31 - June 1 - Battle of Jutland
June 5 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. [1]
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 has been exiled or killed.
July 22 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40.
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 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 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
November - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election
Federal charter granted to the Boy Scouts of America
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.

Ongoing events

Year in topic

Births

Jack Agazarian, SOE agent and hero of WW II (d. 1945)
January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
February 11 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist (d. 2001)
February 11 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
February 26 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (d. 1987)
February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer (d. 1994)
March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist (d. 1997)
March 11 - Harold Wilson, British prime minister (d. 1995)
March 13 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1981)
March 14 - Horton Foote, writer
March 15 - Harry James, musician, band leader (d. 1983)
March 19 - Irving Wallace, novelist (d. 1990)
April 3 - Herb Caen, newspaper columnist (d. 1997)
April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d. 2003)
April 12 - Beverly Cleary, author
April 15 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, department store heir (d. 1982)
April 15 - Helene Hanff, author (d. 1997)
April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
May 8 - JoÃÂ£o Havelange, industrialist and FIFA president 1974-1998
May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
May 21 - Harold Robbins, novelist (d. 1997)
May 21 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter
May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972)
June 8 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate
June 23 - Hermann Gmeiner, pedagogue (d. 1986)
June 23 - Irene Worth, actress (d. 2002)
July 11 - Gough Whitlam, twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia, 1972-1975
July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author (d. 1991)
July 22 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer (d. 1949)
July 31 - Bill Todman, game show producer (d. 1979)
September 13 - Roald Dahl, author (d. 1990)
October 30 - Leon Day, baseballer (d. 1995)
November 10 - Louis le Brocquy, leading Irish painter
November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman, writer
November 27 - Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
November 28 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
December 9 - Kirk Douglas, US actor
December 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, publicist
Lee Hutton - English Cricketer

Deaths

February 12 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician
February 28 - Henry James, writer
May 3 - Padraig Pearse, Irish nationalist
May 11 - Max Reger, composer
June 6 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
June 29 - Georges Lacombe, French artist
July 6 - Odilon Redon, painter
July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner
May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, author
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet
October 28 - Cleveland Abbe, U.S. meteorologist (b. 1838)
November 13 - Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot.
November 22 - Jack London, author
December 5 - Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the last grandchild of George III
December 29/December 30 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk & mystic

Nobel Prizes

Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
Peace - not awarded

Heads of State

China -
1. Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China (1913-1916)
2. Li YÃÂ¼an-hung, Warlord (1916-1917)
Denmark - Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-1947)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Benedict XV, [[Pope|Bishop of Rome] (1914-1922)
Japan - Yoshihito, Taisho Emperor (1912-1926)
Norway - Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-1957)
Ottoman Empire - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909-1918)
Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States (1913-1921)

Years: 1913 1914 1915 - 1916 - 1917 1918 1919
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1916 in aviation 1916 in film 1916 in literature 1916 in music 1916 in science 1916 in sports 1916 state leaders 1916 in Canada