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| 1916 August 27 |
| | | Romania, hoping for territorial gains from Hungary, joins the war on the side of the Allies | |
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| 1916 September 15 |
| | | Eleven British tanks go into pioneering but ineffective action at the battle of the Somme | |
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| 1916 September 17 |
| | | Baron von Richthofen, the 'Red Baron', shoots down the first of many Allied aircraft | |
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| 1916 November 7 |
| | | Woodrow Wilson wins re-election as US president after campaigning on the slogan 'He kept us out of war' | |
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| 1916 November 21 |
| | | The emperor Francis Joseph dies after 66 years on the thrones of Austria and Hungary, to be succeeded by his great-nephew Charles I | |
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| 1916 December 6 |
| | | Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is captured by Austrian and Bulgarian forces | |
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| 1916 December 6 |
| | | Herbert Asquith resigns in the face of a political coup against him, and is replaced as UK prime minister by Lloyd George | |
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| 1916 December 16 |
| | | Philippe Pétain becomes a French national hero for his successful defence of Verdun | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp submits a ceramic urinal to the Society of Independent Artists in New York, giving it the title Fountain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism | |
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