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22 de jul. de 2015 · Historical events from year 1916. Learn about 282 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1916 or search by date or keyword.
7 de nov. de 2016 · Historical Events for the Year 1916. 1st January » Germany known as German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Cameroon known as Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
Important events of 1916 during the third year of the First World War, including Field Marshal Lord Kitchener’s request for US military participation. 1 Jan. Winston Churchill is appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th battalion (Territorial Army) of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
- Testing Empires
- The Home Front
- Lived Experience
A second main theme winds through any chronological exploration of 1916. The evidence of the year itself reveals a number of crisis points where the intensity of the war, often sharpened by a widespread sense that it might never end, began to cause fractures in the bodies politic of belligerent powers. Large-scale war can test states to destruction...
The intensification of war (demonstrated in 1916 by the two titanic battles of Verdun and the Somme) was by no means limited to the battlefield. Increasingly, whole populations were drawn into a collective national effort in support of the war. In all the major belligerents the year 1916 saw efforts being stepped up to regulate domestic manpower an...
I have also sought to investigate the human dimension of the war experience. At the core of the story are the personal experiences of individual human beings, caught up in cataclysmic events which changed not just the world, but which affected and altered them, too, in ways at which we sometimes can only guess. It is one of the boons of military hi...
- Keith Jeffery
At 7:15 am on February 21, 1916, the heaviest German artillery bombardment yet seen in the war began on a front of eight miles around Verdun, and the French trenches and barbed wire fields there were flattened out or upheaved in a chaos of tumbled earth.
July 1 – The United States Marine Corps take control of Santo Domingo. July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation.
Articles & Essays. All Digitized Titles. Listen to this page. 1916. Jan. 8. Gallipoli evacuation complete. Jan. 13. Fall of Cettinje. Feb. 9. General Smuts appointed to East Africa. Feb. 16. Russians entered Erzerum. Feb. 18. German Kamerun conquered. Feb. 21. Battle of Verdun begun. Feb. 24. Germans took Fort Douaumont. March 16.
