1916
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 1. The first successful blood transfusion is performed using stored and chilled blood.
- Real World: January 5. Heavy rains cause flooding in San Diego, California, allegedly caused by the "rainmaker" Charles Hatfield.
- Real World: January 18. A meteorite strikes a home near Baxter, Missouri.
- Real World: January 29. Paris is bombed by German zeppelins.
- Real World: February 3. The Canadian Parliament buildings in Ottawa burn down.
- Real World: February 21. The Battle of Verdun begins in France.
- Real World: March 8. Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa leads Mexican raiders in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.
- Real World: March 15. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson orders a counterattack against Pancho Villa, sending U.S. troops over the Mexican border in pursuit.
- Real World: April 24. The Easter Rising against British rule begins in Ireland.
- Real World: April 30. The Easter Rising ends.
- DC (Post-Crisis), DC (Post-Zero Hour), DC (Post-Infinite Crisis), DC (Vertigo): June 10. Amateur sorcerer Roderick Burgess imprisons Dream of the Endless and takes his items of power; soon thereafter, a mysterious "sleeping sickness" afflicts certain people across the world. (Sandman #1)
- Real World: July 1. The First Battle of the Somme begins. A rogue shark begins attacking swimmers off the coast of New Jersey.
- Real World: July 12. The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916 end.
- World-as-Myth, Future History: July 31. Lazarus Long arrives in Dade County, Missouri, on his first time travel expedition. (Time Enough for Love)
- Real World: November 7. Woodrow Wilson re-elected President of the United States.
- Real World: November 18. The First Battle of the Somme ends with over 1 million dead.
Undated Events
- Land That Time Forgot (Films): Events of The Land That Time Forgot.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain.
Notable Films
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Vampires (serial) ends.
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