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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 ...
January – The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter G. Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week". [1] January 24 In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to −48.8 °C (44 °F to −56 °F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period. Brushaber v.
In Search of the "Jersey Man-Eater": An Exhaustive Investigation of the Infamous Shark Attacks that Plagued the New Jersey Shore during the Summer of 1916. Deal, N.J.: George Marine Library, 1986. OCLC 16678080; Fleming, Thomas J. New Jersey: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. ISBN 0-393-30180-X. Genovese, Peter.
The Presidential Election of 1916. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-0965-8. Miller, Sally M. "The Socialist Party and the Negro, 1901–20," Journal of Negro History 56 (July 1971): 220–229. online; Oks, David. "The Election of 1916, 'Negrowumpism,' and the Black Defection from the Republican Party."
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
January 28 – Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung; February 3 – The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down
The Kent village of Hampton-on-Sea is abandoned due to coastal erosion.; Mary Hare School is founded as Dene Hollow School for the Deaf, originally in Burgess Hill.; Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Opus 32.
Thomas and William Kent were tried by court martial on the charge of armed rebellion. William was acquitted, but Thomas was sentenced to death. David Kent was brought to Dublin where he was charged with the same offence, found guilty and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted and he was sentenced to five years penal servitude.