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| | | Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg found the radical Spartacus League, named after the gladiator | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Ras Tafari, a member of the Ethiopian imperial family, deposes his distant relation the emperor and puts on the throne his aunt, Zauditu | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbook, buys a controlling share in the British newspaper the Daily Express | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Haiti becomes a US protectorate, under the terms of a treaty signed in the previous year | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The election of Hipolito Irigoyen as president begins sixteen years of radical government in Argentina | |
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| 1916 |
| | | 'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The occupation of the General Post Office in Dublin marks the beginning of the Easter Rising | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The rebel leader Patrick Pearse stands under the portico of Dublin's General Post Office to announce the birth of the Irish republic | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Roger Casement is arrested after returning secretly to Ireland three days before the Easter Rising | |
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