* 1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

Narrowly re-elected in 1916, he had full control of American entry into World War I, and his second term centered on World War I and the subsequent peace treaty negotiations in Paris.

* Treaty of 4 August 1916, the treaty of alliance between Romania and the Entente

The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916.

* The nine-point serrated line indicates that Qatar is the 9th member of the " reconciled Emirates " of the Persian Gulf in the wake of concluding the Qatari-British treaty in 1916.

Bonomi served as Minister of Public Works from 1916 until 1917, and as Minister of War during 1920-helping to negotiate a treaty with Yugoslavia ( the Treaty of Rapallo ).

* Treaty of Bucharest ( 1916 ), a treaty of alliance between Romania and the Entente powers ( France, Britain, Italy, and Russia )

Qatar had special treaty relations with Great Britain from 1916 until 3 September 1971, when it became an independent state.

Crowe was sceptical of the usefulness of the League of Nations and in a memorandum of 12 October 1916, he said that " a solemn league and covenant " would be " a treaty, like other treaties ", and asked: " What is there to ensure that it will not, like other treaties, be broken?

Chemical bonds between atoms were now explained, by Gilbert Newton Lewis in 1916, as the interactions between their constituent electrons.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

* Everett massacre ( 1916 ), violence in Washington, United States between trade union members and local authorities

The idea of covalent bonding can be traced several years before 1919 to Gilbert N. Lewis, who in 1916 described the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.

Social conditions, the standard of living, and the self-confidence of the workers gradually improved due to industrialization between 1870 – 1916, but, while the standard of living rose among the common people, the rift between rich and poor deepened markedly.

The Tsar dissolved the parliament and ordered new parliamentary elections almost annually between 1908 – 1916.

The Greater London Arterial Road Programme was devised between 1913 and 1916.

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.

* Ruanda-Urundi ( comprising modern Rwanda and Burundi, between 1916 and 1960 )

She wrote for the IWW between 1916 and 1918.

* 1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.

Meanwhile, in Bellevuestraße, sandwiched between Café Josty and the Hotel Esplanade but extending right through the block with a separate entrance in Potsdamer Straße, was the Weinhaus Rheingold, built by Bruno Schmitz ( 1858 – 1916 ) and opened on 6 February 1907.

In 1916, however, the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France determined that parts of the Mashreq would be divided between those powers rather than forming part of an independent Arab state.

The first IQ test was created between 1905 and 1908 and revised in 1916 ( the Stanford – Binet Intelligence Scales ).

The renewed German campaign was effective, sinking 1. 4 million tons of shipping between October 1916 and January 1917.

Although there were several challenges to Major League Baseball's primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last such challenge was the aborted Continental League in 1960.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

Bloomsbury artists rejected the traditional distinction between fine and decorative art, as can be seen at Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in Sussex where Vanessa Bell, her children and Duncan Grant moved in 1916 for the rest of their lives.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

* 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.

* 1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

* 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.

In May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia agreed the Sykes – Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Since 1916, there have been several different nutrition guidelines issued by the United States government, eventually leading up to the food pyramid.

Also, the move of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Boston in 1916 ensured Cambridge's status as an intellectual center of the United States.

He served as the 36th Governor of New York ( 1907 – 1910 ), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1910 – 1916 ), United States Secretary of State ( 1921 – 1925 ), a judge on the Court of International Justice ( 1928 – 1930 ), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1930 – 1941 ).

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.

An example of an in rem case is United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ( 1916 ), where the defendant was not The Coca Cola Company itself, but rather " Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ".

* The reverse of the United States " Mercury " dime ( minted from 1916 to 1945 ) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

* 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

* 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450, 000 men.

* 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

* 1916 – Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 2005 )

* 1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.

Spanish authorities did not let him stay and he was deported to the United States on 25 December 1916.

* Mercury dime, a United States dime minted from 1916 through 1945

* 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1995 )

* 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4, 800 United States troops over the U. S .- Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception.