Record of Great War 1916 Hunger and Mexico Turmoil
The year 1916 saw global hunger due to partial food crop failures while Germany and its allies advanced in the west and the Austro Hungarian front collapsed on the Russian front. American troops moved into Mexico chasing Villa as the National Guard mobilized along the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Roumania
Balkan
Teutons
Verdun
Volhynia
Galicia
Bukowina
Entente
Great Britain
Australia
Canada
United States
Rerson
Wilson
Germany
Lusitania
Sussex
Congress
Gore
McLemore
House of Representatives
Senate
France
Russia
Joseph Joffre
Robert Nivelle
Czar
Duma
Asia Minor
Trebizond
Erzerum
Dardanelles
Kut-el-Amara
Tigris
Italy
Tyrol
Count Cadorna
Gorltz
Carso Plateau
Taft
Villa
Pablo Gonzales
Santa Isabel
Chihuahua
Carranza
Victoriano Huerta
el Paso
Columbus
N. M
Frank Tompkins
Pershing
House
Dodd
Seventh Cavalry
Brown
Tenth Cavalry
Aguascalentes
Glenn Springs
Ireland
Pearse
Roger Casement
Arabia
Shereef
Medina
Mostem
Mecca
Washington
Constantine
Eleutherios Venizelos
Athens
Lloyd-George
House of Commons
Great
Britain
Japan
National Guard
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
San Ignacio
Obregon
Juarez
National Guard of
Carrizal
Atlantic City
Chihuahua City
General Pershing
Adj
Guy E. Logan
Iowa
War Department
Prominent deaths listed for 1916 by date
A catalog of notable passings from January to December 1916, listing figures such as ex US Senator Alfred Benson, Ringling circus founder, Supreme Court associate justice Joseph Lamar, Civil War generals, creators, scientists, and international leaders with their places of death across the United States and Europe. The list includes political leaders, scholars, musicians, and authors, reflecting wide public figures of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Alfred W. Benson
Kansas
Topeka
al Ringling
Joseph R. Lamar
United States Supreme Court
Grenville M. Dodge
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Robert T. van Horn
The
Kansas City Journal
Kansas City
Charles W. Knapp
New York City
Frank H. Dodd
Roumania
William S. Smith
Richard A. McCurdy
Morristown
N. J
Henry G. Davis
Washington
Cardinal Gotti
Propaganda
Rome
Cole Younger
Thomas J. Pence
Democratic National Committee
James B. Angell
University of Michigan
Richard H. Davis
Peck
Wisconsin
Marshal von der Goltz
Sholem Aleichem
Mark Twain
Clara Louise Kellogg
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
Timothy Dwight
Yale University
Joseph
Gal- Heni
Paris
James J. Hill
St. Paul
John S. Mosby
Yuan Shih Kai
China
John R. McLean
Count von Moltke
Berlin
Hetty Green
Elie Metchnikoff
James H. Moore
Ivauke Geneva
Wis
James Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis
Long Branch
John L. Spalding
Peoria
John P. St. John
Olathe
Kan
Richard C. Kerens
St. Louis
Jose Echegaray
Madrid
Albert L. Mills
Division of Militia Affairs
William J. Calhoun
Chicago
James P. Clarke
United States Senate
William Warner
Missouri
Norman Duncan
Fredonia
N.Y
Wiliam M. Chase
Cleveland Abbe
Boelcke
Charles T
Pastor) Russell
Cardinal Francis Della Volpe
Congregation of the Index
Percival Lowell
Flagstaff
Ariz
Henryk Slenkiewiccz
Vevay
Switzerland
Cambridge
Mass
James M. Taylor
Vassar College
Will Raise Taxes Through State Appropriation Demands
Des Moines reports show state departments boards and the board of control seek more than 2 million dollars in annual increases for the next two years raising total state taxes by about two mills to around 6.5. The budgets include education and control boards emphasis, with funds for the Woodward epileptic colony, Rockwell City reformatory, cattle disease work, custodial farm expansion, and measures for prison reform and civil administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Board of Education
State Board of Control
General Assembly
State Board of Education
Board of Control
Woodward
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
State Veterinarian’s Department
Cosson
Thirty-seventh
Turbulent 1916 Events Sweep Nations and Nations Within War
A montage of 1916 incidents outside the war and Mexico. Riots devastate a Youngstown business district with injuries. a federal jury acquits six New Haven railroad conspirators and convicts others amid ongoing trials. Brandeis joins the Supreme Court, Baker becomes secretary of war, and Wilson reshapes leadership as crises unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Blaven Railroad
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jutland
Liverpool Financial and Shipping Authority
British Mercantile Marine
Indian Ocean
Antipodes
Portugal
Montenegro
Henry Ford
Balkans
Sarrail
Monastir
Atlantic
Newport
R. L
Nantucket
Iowa National Guard
Charles City
Fort Des Moines
Quartermaster’s Department
State Automobile Department
Carlson
State Board of Parole
A. D. Storms
Fort Madison
Burlington
Storms
Clarke
Ole O. Roe
Cedar Rapids
Oskaloosa
Creston
Osceola
Kelsey Lancelot
State House
Rhys T. Rhys
Ottumwa
Ed Sweeney
Towa
Aing Board
State Board of Pharmacy
American Institute of Architects
Loula D. Brandeis
Lindley M. Garrison
Newton D. Baker
Santo Domingo
Hughen
Fairbanks
Wil
Duke of Devonshire
John H. Clarke
Cleveland
Charles H. Hughes
Coal River Valley
West Virginia
Adamson
Duluth
James B. Colgate
Lake Erie
Everett
Wash
Marshall
Nymen
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