The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

A debate took place in the Reichstag on 15 January 1916, where the incident was described as a " cowardly murder " and Grey's note as being " full of insolence and arrogance ".

During the course of the war, he took part in actions at Heligoland Bight ( 1914 ), Dogger Bank ( 1915 ) and Jutland ( 1916 ).

Early on Monday morning, 24 April 1916, roughly 1, 200 Volunteers and Citizen Army members took over strongpoints in Dublin city centre.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.

His final proposal to Maud Gonne took place in the summer of 1916.

The United States presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I.

The battle took place on the Western Front, between June and November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy agreed by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917.

Small operations took place in the Ypres salient in 1916, some being German initiatives to distract the Allies from the preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later to try to divert Allied attention from the Battle of the Somme.

Menem's accession marked the first time since Hipólito Yrigoyen took office in 1916 that an incumbent government peacefully surrendered power to a member of the opposition.

The National Park Service, on its creation in 1916, took over Yosemite.

In 1916, Groves took the examinations for admission to West Point again and this time he was accepted.

In 1916, during World War I, the government took over all the public houses and breweries in Carlisle because of endemic drunkenness among construction and munitions workers from the nearby munitions factory at Gretna.

The Battle of the Somme (, ), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France.

On 28 May 1916, Byng took command of the Canadian Corps from Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson.

In 1916 a new change took place to adopt today's denomination, Real Sporting de Gijón.

Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927.

Although a number of events took place to effect policy change, the tipping point would be the May 5, 1916 raid at Glenn Spring.

Iron observation post camouflaged as an elm tree by Cubism | Cubist painter Andre Mare, 1916

One of his specialities was designing camouflaged armoured trees for use as observation posts ; he was wounded in 1916 helping to set up an observation post.

German dead scattered in the wreck of a machine gun post near Battle of Guillemont | Guillemont, 1916

In 1913, the nineteen-year-old Rockwell became the art editor for Boys ' Life, published by the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held for three years ( 1913 – 1916 ).

Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, became head of the post office in Ireland before the First World War, and was based at the main post office in Dublin in 1916 at the time of the Easter Rising.

* New Decatur renames itself Albany ( although the post office designation is New Albany ), 1916

The Akiak post office was established in 1916.

A post office was established at Diablo in 1916.

The first post office in Orland opened in 1916.

The Willow post office opened in 1862 ; the name was changed to Willows in 1916.

The first post office at Winterhaven operated from 1916 to 1921.

The first post office opened at Oildale in 1916.

The Marina post office opened in 1916.

The town had no post office when Alice Lloyd, founder of Alice Lloyd College, arrived in 1916.

The post office closed permanently in December 1916.

In 1916, the post office moved to new quarters on Park Street, between Main Street and Marvin Avenue, into the Rundall Building, and John Thorp became the new postmaster.

Golva post office was established February 15, 1916.

A post office was established in 1909 and the town was later incorporated as a village in 1916.

The post office closed in 1916.

The town received a post office branch in 1899, and Westminster was incorporated after a vote of 38 to 19 against, on June 17, 1916.

East Donna, the Mexican side of town, had a post office named Beatriz, after Beatriz Hooks, from 1912 to 1916.

Between 1885 and 1916, Crawick even had its own post office ( known as Crawick Bridge ); it also had gas-powered streetlights two years before the rest of the town of Sanquhar.

He was one of the few King's Counsel to provided legal services to members of Sinn Féin in various legal proceedings in both Ireland and England post the 1916 Rising.