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1916

1916 01 01 The first successful blood transfusion using stored blood
1916 01 01 “Back Home in Tennessee” Prince’s Orchestra
1916 01 03 Maxene Andrews born.
1916 01 03 Betty Furness born.
1916 01 04 Lionel Newman born.
1916 01 08 “America, I Love You” Sam Ash
1916 01 08 “I Think We've Got Another Washington (Wilson is His Name)” Peerless Quartet
1916 01 08 “Noche Serena (Calm Night)” Emilio de Gogorza
1916 01 08 “When You’re in Love with Someone Who is Not in Love with You” Henry Burr and Helen Clark
1916 01 09 WAR WORLD WAR I: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops evacuated.
1916 01 09 Vic Mizzy born.
1916 01 09 Fatty and Mabel Adrift (film) premiers.
1916 01 10 Sybil (play) premiers.
1916 01 12 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke awarded the Pour le Mérite.
1916 01 13 WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire defeats Allied British.
1916 01 13 Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company founded.
1916 01 17 Arthur V. Johnson dies.
1916 01 18 First flight of the Junkers J.1
1916 01 22 “Along the Rocky Road to Dublin” American Quartet
1916 01 22 “Somewhere a Voice is Calling” John McCormack
1916 01 24 The temperature in Browning, Montana, drops from 6.7°C to -48.8°C in one day.
1916 01 24 Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: U.S. Supreme Court upholds national income tax.
1916 01 29 WAR WORLD WAR I: Paris bombed by German zeppelins.
1916 01 31 WAR WORLD WAR I: An attack is planned on Verdun.
1916 01 31 WAR WORLD WAR I: German airships resume bombing United Kingdom.
1916 01 XX WAR WORLD WAR I: 10 of 16 Royal Flying Corps crash.

1916 02 01 4 Symphony No. 4 by Carl Nielsen premieres.
1916 02 03 Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down.
1916 02 03 Farmer Al Falfa’s Cat-Tastrophe produced by Paul Terry.
1916 02 05 “Perfect Day” The Imperial Quartet of Chicago
1916 02 06 WAR WORLD WAR I: Ottoman ship Irmingard sunk.
1916 02 09 The art movement Dada begins.
1916 02 09 “He’s Got a Bungalow” Arthur Fields
1916 02 09 Sopwith Pup flown by Harry Hawker.
1916 02 11 Emma Goldman arrested.
1916 02 11 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert.
1916 02 11 Sportul Studențesc founded.
1916 02 12 “Araby” Harry Macdonough
1916 02 12 “Is There Still Room for Me ’Neath the Old Apple Tree?” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
1916 02 12 “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” Henry Burr
1916 02 12 “When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukelele” The Peerless Quartet
1916 02 14 Sally Gray born.
1916 02 14 小林 正樹 (Masaki Kobayashi) born.
1916 02 17 Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (play) opens.
1916 02 19 “Cohen Telephones from Brighton” Joe Hayman
1916 02 21 WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Verdun begins.
1916 02 26 Jean Navarre forces down a German aircraft and later shoots down a German bomber.
1916 02 26 John Herbert “Jackie” Gleason born.
1916 02 26 “Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What to Do!” Ada Jones
1916 02 26 “The Wedding of the Sunshine and the Rose” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
1916 02 29 Frances Rose “Dinah” Shore born.
1916 02 XX Airco DH.2 (aircraft) enters service.
1916 02 XX Gotha UWD (aircraft) enters service.
1916 02 XX Frau Eva (film) premiers.
1916 02 XX Sally in Our Alley (film) premiers.
1916 02 XX WAR WORLD WAR I: KEK units (Kampfeinsitzer Kommando) are first used.
1916 02 XX WAR WORLD WAR I: Major T. C. Higgins becomes the commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corps’s No. 19 Reserve Squadron at Hounslow.

1916 03 01 Liljevalchs konsthall (art gallery) inaugurated.
1916 03 01 National Library of Wales, transfer of collection completed.
1916 03 04 “Go to Sleep, My Dusky Baby” Olive Kline, Elsie Baker & Marguerite Dunlap
1916 03 05 Hell’s Hinges (film) premieres
1916 03 07 BMW (Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke) founded.
1916 03 08 WAR MEXICAN REVOLUTION: Battle of Columbus, 108 dead.
1916 03 11 “Everybody” Bert Williams
1916 03 11 “The Old Folks at Home” Taylor Trio
1916 03 12 The Habit of Happiness (film) premiers.
1916 03 15 WAR MEXICAN REVOLUTION: Pancho Villa Expedition
1916 03 15 Harry James born.
1916 03 17 Mercedes McCambridge born.
1916 03 18 WAR WORLD WAR I: German flying ace Ernst Udet scores his first kill.
1916 03 18 “Neapolitan Love Song” Reinald Werrenrath
1916 03 22 Emperor of China, 袁世凱 (Yuan Shikai), abdicates the throne.
1916 03 22 J. R. R. Tolkien marries Edith Bratt.
1916 03 24 WAR WORLD WAR I: French ferry SS Sussex torpedoed.
1916 03 25 “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” George Wilton Ballard
1916 03 25 “My Mother’s Rosary” Henry Burr
1916 03 25 “The Lights of My Home Town” The Peerless Quartet
1916 03 26 Sterling Hayden born.
1916 03 26 Hoodoo Ann (film) premiers.
1916 03 31
1916 04 01
WAR WORLD WAR I: Seven German Navy Zeppelins attempt to bomb London.

1916 11 19 Ruth Law sets new distance record for cross-country flight at 590 miles (950 km).
1916 11 19 Goldwyn Pictures established.
1916 11 20 Evelyn Keyes born.
1916 11 21 WAR WORLD WAR I: HMHS Britannic sinks.
1916 11 21 WAR WORLD WAR I: Breguet 14 (aircraft) completes its first flight.
1916 11 22 Jack London dies.
1916 11 22 WAR WORLD WAR I: Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 completes its first flight.
1916 11 23
WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Bucharest begins.
1916 11 23 WAR WORLD WAR I: Lanoe Hawker shot down.
1916 11 27 British airship R.9 completes its first flight.
1916 11 28 WAR WORLD WAR I: German airplane bombs London.
1916 11 29 Follow Me (play) opens.
1916 11 30 Dorrit Weixler dies.
1916 11 XX Sopwith Triplane enters into service.
1916 11 XX Disraeli (film) released.

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