• World War I rages on in Europe
  • January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
  • February 21 - the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • May 31-June 1 - The Battle of Jutland ends in a stalemate, but secures British control of the seas.
  • July 1-November 18 - More than one million soldiers die fighting for a few hundred meters of soil in the Battle of the Somme.

These people were born in 1916:

• American television journalist Walter Cronkite.

These people died in 1916:

• American author Jack London.
• Japanese educator, statesman, and political theorist Kato Hiroyuki, the first president of Tokyo University.

1915 - 1916 - 1917

20th century

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