Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Current events; Random article ... Elliot Woolfolk Major ... 18th Governor of Arkansas from 1895 to 1897 and U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1903 to 1916 (born ...
1916 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1916, the ...
The following events occurred in January 1916: ... Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad – The British relief force of 13,000 under command of Major-General George Younghusband ...
1916 – Adamson Act; 1916 – Federal Farm Loan Act; 1916 – Jones Act; 1916 – 1916 United States presidential election: Woodrow Wilson is reelected president and Thomas R. Marshall is reelected vice president, by a mere 3,773 votes in California; 1916 – Germany agrees to restrict submarine warfare; 1916 – The Great Migration begins
Gallipoli evacuations, a major Ottoman victory and a "disaster for the Allies." December 19 Western: Douglas Haig replaces John French as commander of the British Expeditionary Force. December 23 African, Kamerun: Carl Zimmermann orders the retreat of all German forces and civilians in Kamerun to the Spanish colony of Río Muni.
By the end of 1916, Russian casualties totalled nearly five million killed, wounded or captured, with major urban areas affected by food shortages and high prices. In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas ordered the military to forcibly suppress a wave of strikes in Petrograd but the troops refused to fire on the crowds. [1]
December 1916 events in North America (1 C) U. 1916 events in the United States by month (10 C)
November 1916 events in the United States (3 P) This page was last ...