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| 1916 |
| | | Manchester dramatist Harold Brighouse has a major success when his play Hobson's Choice is performed in London | |
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| 1916 |
| | | After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Dogs are trained in Germany, by Dr Gerhard Stalling, to guide soldiers blinded in the war | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Lloyd George splits his own Liberal party when he forms a coalition government with the Conservatives | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies | |
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| 1916 |
| | | British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon | |
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| 1916 February 21 |
| | | A German thrust against the French begins the year-long battle of Verdun | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Feb 26 - a French troopship La Provence is torpedoed by a U-boat off Cape Matapan and sinks with the loss of nearly 1000 lives | |
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