1916

Events

• January 18 - Theodore Bilbo is elected Governor of Mississippi.
• March 8 to 9 - Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
• May 15 - 17-year old farmhand Jesse Washington is brutally lynched in Waco, Texas after being accused of raping and murdering his white employer's wife.
• July 1 - Beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
• November 7 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson wins reelection during the 1916 presidential election.
• November 18 - End of the Battle of the Somme.
• December 30 - Grigori Rasputin is assassinated in St. Petersburg by a group of conservative noblemen who oppose his influence over Tsar Nicholas II.

Births

Villain births

• January 7 - Elena Ceaușescu
• January 12 - P.W Botha
• December 16 - James Camb

Victim births

• January 23 - Airey Neave

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 18 - Hans Schmidt
• April 19 - Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
• June 6 - Yuan Shikai
• December 30 - Grigori Rasputin

Victim deaths

• May 15 - Jesse Washington