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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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| 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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| 1916 |
| | | Manuel de Falla completes his piece for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain | |
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| 1916 |
| | | "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" features in the London musical The Bing Boys are Here | |
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| 1916 |
| | | In his Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure provides the basis for the broader development of structuralism | |
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| 1916 |
| | | William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Three members of the Russian imperial family assassinate the influential charlatan Grigory Rasputin | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Passing Show of 1916 is the first of 22 musicals written in the short span of 17 years by the brothers George and Ira Gershwin | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Ottorino Respighi completes his symphonic poem for orchestra Fountains of Rome, first performed in Rome the following year | |
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