Historical Events in 1916
101 curated events dated to this year, and 226 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1916
Events dated to this year
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Death in Battle
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Discovery of Heparin
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Easter Rising Proclaims Irish Republic in Dublin (1916)
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Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
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Execution and Legacy
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Final Years and Legacy
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Great Migration of African Americans
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Signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic
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The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of the Somme
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The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of Verdun
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British Development of Tanks for Trench Warfare
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Creation of the Spectra Hoax
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Ferdinand de Saussure's 'Course in General Linguistics' Published
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Nichols serves at Loos and the Somme
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Publication of 'Chicago Poems'
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Publication of 'Men, Women and Ghosts'
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Publication of 'Mountain Interval'
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Publication of 'Songs of Peace'
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Publication of 'The Farmer's Bride'
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Publication of 'The Great War and Other Poems'
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Publication of 'The Negro's Place in American Life'
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Publication of 'The Poems of John Gould Fletcher'
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Publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Publication of Notturno
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Service in World War I
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The Death-Defying Open-Boat Journey of Ernest Shackleton
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The Founding of the Dada Movement at Cabaret Voltaire
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The German Stahlhelm and the Engineering of Head Protection
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Carlisle State Management Scheme nationalises local drink trade
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Citrate-Glucose Blood Preservation
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Contribution to 'Umteteli wa Bantu'
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Cummings Graduates from Harvard University
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Death of Her Husband
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Death of Mário de Sá-Carneiro
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Enlistment in the British Army
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First Collection Published: A Heap o' Livin'
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First Major Publication of Poetry
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Hart Crane Moves to New York City and Begins Literary Career
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HMS Hampshire Sinks with Lord Kitchener
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HMS Queen Mary Explodes at Jutland
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Involvement in the Dada Movement
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Involvement in World War I
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
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Lawrence and Frieda live in internal exile in Cornwall
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Monro serves in the war and Alida keeps the Bookshop
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New York City Zoning Resolution of 1916
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Nichols invalided home with shell shock
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Piggly Wiggly Opens First Self-Service Grocery Store
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Posthumous Publication of 'Marlborough and Other Poems'
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Publication of 'A Book of Poems'
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Publication of 'Friends'
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Publication of 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death'
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Publication of 'Nature Poems'
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Publication of 'Poems'
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Publication of 'Sea Garden'
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Publication of 'Sunshine and Awkwardness'
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Publication of 'The Golden Arrow'
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Publication of 'The Great War and the British Empire'
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Publication of 'The Lament of the Soldier's Wife'
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Publication of 'The Lumberjack's Poet'
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Publication of 'The Spell of the Yukon'
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Publication of Tasker Jevons and work on psychoanalysis
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Sanger Opens First US Birth Control Clinic
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Trans-Siberian Railway Completed
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Yeats's Involvement in the Easter Rising
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August Vollmer Establishes First Police Crime Laboratory in the United States
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Dada movement uses collage and typography
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First Major Publication
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First Major Publication: 'The Harp and the Shadow'
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First Published Work
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Flies in Wartime Poetry — Siegfried Sassoon and the Flies at the Front
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Friendship with Edward Thomas
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Friendship with Rabindranath Tagore
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Gilbert Newton Lewis Proposes Electron Pair Bonding
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HMHS Britannic Sinks in the Aegean Sea
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Involvement with the Poetry Society
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Jack Cornwell Is Mortally Wounded Aboard HMS Chester
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May Sinclair joins the Royal Society of Literature
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Publication of 'The Little Book of Modern Verse'
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Publication of 'The New Poetry'
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Relocation to London
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Return to the United States
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Siegfried Sassoon's Military Cross Award
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Tank-Mounted Machine Guns
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Trench Dagger and Knuckle Knife in WWI
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Absinthe's Role in Dadaist Provocations
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Battle of Jutland
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Birth of Second Child, Elizabeth Williams
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First Use of Tanks in Combat
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Founding of the Pen League
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Friendship with William Butler Yeats
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Hemingway's First Published Work
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Introduction of Conscription in Britain
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Involvement with the Provincetown Players
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Monro divorces Dorothy Browne
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Official Marriage to Horace Wylie
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Owen is Commissioned into the Manchester Regiment
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Publication of 'The Circus and Other Essays'
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Tagore's Visit to the United States
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Marriage to Ada Hitchcock
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Shackleton Expedition Lunar Eclipse
Poets alive in 1916
226 poets
Poets in 1916
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