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| 1916 |
| | | Eamon de Valera comes to prominence as one of the republican leaders in the Easter Rising | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The National Parks Service is set up within the US Department of the Interior | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Provincetown Players are founded in Massachusetts, opening with a production of Eugene O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff | |
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| 1916 |
| | | In his first World Series for the Boston Red Sox, 21-year-old Babe Ruth sets a still unbroken record, pitching 13 successive scoreless innings | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Patrick Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Woodrow Wilson sends the marines to maintain order when the Dominican Republic slips towards civil war | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The US National Defense Act establishes the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) | |
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