1916 (MCMXVI) 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 Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1916 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1916
MCMXVI
Ab urbe condita2669
Armenian calendar1365
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԵ
Assyrian calendar6666
Baháʼí calendar72–73
Balinese saka calendar1837–1838
Bengali calendar1323
Berber calendar2866
British Regnal yearGeo. 5 – 7 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2460
Burmese calendar1278
Byzantine calendar7424–7425
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4613 or 4406
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4614 or 4407
Coptic calendar1632–1633
Discordian calendar3082
Ethiopian calendar1908–1909
Hebrew calendar5676–5677
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1972–1973
 - Shaka Samvat1837–1838
 - Kali Yuga5016–5017
Holocene calendar11916
Igbo calendar916–917
Iranian calendar1294–1295
Islamic calendar1334–1335
Japanese calendarTaishō 5
(大正5年)
Javanese calendar1846–1847
Juche calendar5
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4249
Minguo calendarROC 5
民國5年
Nanakshahi calendar448
Thai solar calendar2458–2459
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2042 or 1661 or 889
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2043 or 1662 or 890

Events edit

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

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Proclamation of the Irish Republic distributed during the Easter Rising

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May 31June 1:Battle of Jutland between Allies and Germany

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July 1November 18:Battle of the Somme between British and German.

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Troops from New Zealand during WWI.

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Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) marching to the trenches, November 1916

December edit

Date unknown edit

Sport edit

In fiction edit

Births edit

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Princess Niloufer
 
Elena Ceaușescu
 
P. W. Botha
 
Rafael Caldera

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Jackie Gleason

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Harold Wilson

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Gregory Peck
 
Ferruccio Lamborghini

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Dame Olivia de Havilland
 
Sir Edward Heath
 
Gough Whitlam

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Roald Dahl
 
Aldo Moro
 
Peter Finch

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Vitaly Ginzburg
 
François Mitterrand

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Walter Cronkite
 
Evelyn Keyes
 
Ramón José Velásquez

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Kristján Eldjárn
 
Kirk Douglas
 
Betty Grable

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

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Patriarch Cyril VIII Geha
 
Blessed Juana María Condesa Lluch
 
Lorenzo Latorre

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Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu
 
Blessed Ludwika Szczęsna
 
Ernst Mach

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Franz Marc
 
Herman Gesellius

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Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Karl Schwarzschild
 
James Connolly
 
Vladimír Jindřich Bufka
 
Ivan Franko

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Yuan Shikai
 
Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba

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Servant of God Jeremiah Lomnytskyj
 
Cesare Battisti
 
William Ramsay

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Pierre de Ségur
 
Umberto Boccioni

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Gennady Ladyzhensky
 
Gerald Arbuthnot

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Blessed Isidore De Loor
 
King Otto of Bavaria

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Prince Mircea of Romania
 
Prince Heinrich of Bavaria
 
Francisco da Veiga Beirão
 
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
 
Jack London

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Blessed Charles de Foucauld
 
Blessed Giulia Valle
 
Blessed Honorat da Biała
 
King Thibaw Min
 
Saint Albert Chmielowski
 
Grigori Rasputin

Nobel Prizes edit

 

References edit

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  14. ^ On This Day: Easter Rising leader Seán Heuston was executed
  15. ^ Kurt Wintgens
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Further reading edit

  • Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 109–74.

Primary sources and year books edit