Battle of the Somme
1916 · Event
British and French offensive on the Western Front; 60,000 British casualties on the first day; 420,000 British by November.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), World War I, England, France
Around 1916
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Weimar Republic (1919)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)