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 (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
Births
Deaths
- Ahm ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Benson ( Land That Time Forgot)
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Bradley ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Dietz (( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Olson ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Sinclair ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Von Schoenvorts, Baron Friedrich ( Land That Time Forgot)
(Out of Time's Abyss) - Von Schoenvorts, Captain ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(The Land That Time Forgot) - Whiteley ( Land That Time Forgot (Movies))
(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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