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| 1916 |
| | | Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Maxim Gorky publishes My Apprenticeship, the second volume of his autobiography | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich call their new movement Dada (the French for 'hobby-horse', selected at random from a dictionary) | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Gustav Holst completes his orchestral suite c, not performed in its entirety until 1920 | |
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| 1916 |
| | | In his ground-breaking film Intolerance D.W. Griffith intercuts four parallel stories from different historical periods | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The musical Chu Chin Chow opens at His Majesty's Theatre in London and runs for a record 2235 performances | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Margaret Sanger opens the first US birth control clinic, in a poor district of Brooklyn, and is gaoled for thirty days | |
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