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next turn year 1916 [the blood bath continues]

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1916 January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.

January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.

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. Union Pacific Railroad Co.: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax.

January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.

January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February[edit] Main article: February 1916

February 3 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burn down.

February 9 – 6.00 p.m. – Tristan Tzara "founds" the art movement Dadaism (according to Hans Arp).

February 11 Emma Goldman is arrested, for lecturing on birth control in the United States.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert in the United States.

The Romanian football club Sportul Studențesc is founded in Bucharest.

February 12 – WWI – Battle of Salaita Hill (East African Campaign): South African and other British Empire troops fail to take a German East African defensive position.

February 21 – WWI: The Battle of Verdun begins in France. March[edit] Main article: March 1916 March 7 – In Munich, German automobile company BMW (Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke) is founded. March 8–9 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.

March 15 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.

March 16 – Mexican Revolution: The U.S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border, to join the hunt for Villa.

March 22 The temporary Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne, and the Republic of China is restored once again.

J. R. R. Tolkien marries Edith Bratt in England (they will serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren).

Proclamation of the Irish Republic distributed during the Easter Rising Main article: April 1916

April – The toggle light switch is invented, by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.

April 11 – WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the occupation of the Sinai Peninsula.

April 20 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.

April 22 – The Chinese troop transport SS Hsin-Yu capsizes off the Chinese coast; at least 1,000 are killed.

April 24–30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army.

April 24–May 10 – Voyage of the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nautical miles (1,500 km; 920 mi)) is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance.

April 27 – WWI: Gas attack at Hulluch in France: The 47th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division is decimated, in one of the most heavily concentrated German gas attacks of the war.

April 29 – WWI – Mesopotamian campaign: The Siege of Kut ends with the surrender of British forces to the Ottoman Empire, at Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris in Basra Vilayet.