1916 TimelineThis Year - Radio David Sarnoff envisions radio as "a household utility."
This Year - Technology Cameras get optical rangefinders.
This Year - Radio Radios get tuners.
This Year - Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
This Year - Beginning of Arab revolt against Ottoman Turks in Hijaz
This Year - Hussein proclaims himself King of the Arabs
January01 - 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published.
05 - World War I Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro.
07 - World War I German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun.
10 - World War I Russian offensive in Kaukasus.
11 - French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu.
12 - Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific.
13 - World War I Cettinje, capital of Montenegro, occupied by Austrians.
14 - Dutch South Sea dike cracks.
29 - World War I, Aviation German Zeppelins bomb Paris and towns in England. jan 31 1916
25 - World War I Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
27 - President Wilson launches nationwide whistle-stop campaign to generate support for Preparedness and the Continental Army with three speeches in New York.
27 - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin.
28 - World War I German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France.
28 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Woodrow Wilson.
29 - World War I, Aviation 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.
31 - War College Division warns its civilian employees "to engage in no discussion whatever concerning the progress of the European War".
31 - Dutch Girl Guides form.
February03 - President Wilson delivers final speech of Preparedness campaign in Saint Louis.
03 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down.
05 - Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co.
08 - World War I French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374.
09 - World War I Britain's military service act enforced (conscription).
10 - British conscription law goes into effect.
11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
12 - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps".
16 - World War I Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia.
19 - World War I Kamerun, German colony in Africa, conquered by British forces.
21 - World War I Beginning of the ten month Battle of Verdun. Germans take Haumont.1 million casualties
23 - World War I French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun.
23 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin.
24 - Acting Secretary of War Hugh L. Scott asks United States War College Division if any plans exist in the event "of a complete rupture" with Germany.
25 - World War I Fort Douaumont falls to Germans in Verdun battle.
26 - Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia.
26 - Silent Film Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
26 - World War I Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.
March01 - World War I Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic.
08 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime.
09 - World War I Germany declares war on Portugal on the latter's refusal to give up seized ships.
09 - Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico.17 killed
12 - World War I French airship sinks British submarine D3.
14 - World War I Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun.
15 - Military, Aviation First U.S. tactical air unit in the field, the 1st Aero Squadron commanded by Capt. B. D. Foulois, began operations with General Pershing's expedition into Mexico.
15 - Austria-Hungary at war with Portugal.
15 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos.
16 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty.
20 - World War I Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium.
24 - World War I Sussex, French cross-channel steamer, with many Americans aboard, sunk by submarine off Dieppe. No Americans lost.
26 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary.
31 - World War I Melancourt taken by Germans in Verdun Battle.
31 - World War I Dutch govt ends all milt engagements.
April00 - Military, Aviation, World War I French employed first air-to-air combat rockets, four Le Prieur rockets attached to each strut of Nieuport fighter, credited with downing of German hydrogen-inflated Zeppelin LC-77. The Belgian, Willy Coppens, and Briton, Albert Ball, reportedly used rockets effectively against German balloons until incendiary bullets were developed.
01 - World War I Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed.
02 - World War I German troops overtake Bois de Caillette.
04 - World War I US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in World War I.
05 - French troops occupy Bois de Caillette.
06 - World War I German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare.
08 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage.
19 - Sports 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4.
20 - World War I Russian troops landed at Marseilles for service on Frenchfront.
20 - World War I German-British sea battle off Belgian coast.
22 - World War I France battles at Fort Douaumont.
29 - World War I British force of 9000 men, under Gen. Townshend, besieged in Kut-el-Amara, surrenders to Turks.
May02 - USA President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act.
04 - World War I At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
08 - World War I Cymrio, a White Star liner, torpedoed off Irish coast.
08 - World War I German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes.
09 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey.
10 - Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND.
10 - Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam.
11 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies.
11 - Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented.
13 - USA 1st observance of Indian Native American Day.
14 - World War I Italian positions penetrated by Austrians.
15 - World War I Vimy Ridge gained by British.
15 - World War I Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front.
19 - Britain and France conclude the Sykes-Picot Agreement
20 - Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting.
22 - World War I French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun.
23 - World War I Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun.
24 - World War I French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured.
26 - World War I Bulgarians invade Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.
29 - Official flag of president of US adopted.
31 - World War I Jutland naval battle; British and German fleets engaged;heavy losses on both sides.
31 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6.
June02 - World War I German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux.
04 - World War I Beginning of the Brusilov offensive against Austria-Hungary
04 - World War I Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack.
05 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65. Kitchener, British Secretary of War, loses his life when the cruiser Hampshire, on which he was voyaging to Russia, is sunk off the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
06 - World War I Germans capture Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.
06 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage.
07 - World War I Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun.
10 - Great Arab Revolt begin.
17 - US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico.
21 - World War I Allies demand Greek demobilization.
21 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing.
25 - Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov.
27 - World War I King Constantine orders demobilization of Greek army.
July01 - World War I Battle of the Somme opens; British suffer approximately 60,000 casualties on the first day British 4th Army walks to German lines.
01 - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market.
01 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo.
02 - World War I Russian offensive in Armenia.
11 - Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act.
22 - US Navy requested Aluminum Co. of America to develop a suitable alloy for fabrication into Zeppelin-type girders.
30 - Black Tom Island munitions plant destroyed; German sabotage suspected
August01 - Hawaii National Park forms.
03 - World War I French recapture Fleury.
04 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million.
10 - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia.
22 - President Wilson signed Navy appropriation bill, which included $3,500,000 for naval aviation.
27 - World War I Roumania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
28 - World War I Germany declares war on Romania.
29 - US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence.
29 - Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff.
31 - World War I Germany suspends submarine assaults
31 - World War I Bulgaria at war with Roumania. Turkey at war with Roumania.
September01 - World War I Bulgaria declares war on Romania.
02 - World War I Bulgarian forces invade Roumania along the Dobrudja frontier.
03 - World War I Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun.
11 - World War I German troops conquer Kavalla Greece.
15 - World War I, Technology Tanks introduced on the Somme battlefield by the British capturing Flers, Courcelette, and other Germans positions on Western front.
15 - World War I 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France.
15 - World War I Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme).
19 - World War I Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa.
26 - World War I Combles and Thiepval captured by British and French.
October02 - San Diego Zoo founded.
05 - World War I Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured.
15 - World War I Germany resumes U-boat attacks under 'search and destroy' rules
17 - Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage.
24 - World War I Fort Douaumont recaptured by French.
27 - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety).
November02 - Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France.
03 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar.
07 - Woodrow Wilson wins reelection, which was in doubt until the California returns. u.nov 09 1916
07 - Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising.
13 - World War I British advance along the Ancre.
16 - USSR La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000.
18 - World War I Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe.
21 - World War I Britannic, mammoth British hospital ship, sunk by mine in Aegean Sea.
22 - Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, dies. Succeeded by Charles I.
22 - Jack London, author, dies at 40.
23 - World War I German warships bombard English coast.
26 - World War I Greece declares war on Germany.
28 - World War I First airplane raid on London, by a German seaplane.
December01 - Allied troops enter Athens to insist upon surrender of Greek arms and munitions.
05 - Asquith resigns as Prime Minister.
07 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM.
12 - Germans issue peace note suggesting compromise peace
12 - Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed).
13 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol.
15 - World War I French complete recapture of ground taken by Germans in Verdun battle.
18 - World War I President Wilson requests statement of war objectives from warring nations in peace note. British offended by implication that their war aims are no more moral than Germany's
19 - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo.
20 - US Army Balloon School established at Fort Omaha, Nebraska.
26 - World War I Germany replies to President Wilsons's note and suggests a peace conference.
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