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- 1916 was a leap year! Details: 1916 is divisible by four (1916/4 = 479) and isn't divisible by 100 (1916/100 = 19.16). So, 1916 was a leap year.
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1916 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1916, the ...
World War I Timeline 1916. 18 February. The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 February–19 December. The Battle of Verdun begins. Verdun, a French fortress town, was located in the western shadow of the Meuse river, close to the German-French border. It was of great symbolic ...
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917) Introduction. More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652. Van Riebeeck had received a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a ...
July. 14-16 – During the Battle of Delville Wood, 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed in South Africa's biggest loss in the First World War. September. 4 – Dar es Salaam surrenders to British Empire forces. Births. 12 January – P.W. Botha, politician, Prime Minister and State President. (d. 2006)
The year 1916 is a leap year, with 366 days in total. Calendar type: Gregorian calendar
A-Z of South African Politics: the Essential Handbook, 1999, edited by Phillip Van Niekerk and Barbara Ludman, London, NY: Penguin Books. Jacqueline Audrey Kalley; et al., eds. (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Greenwood.
Feb 29, 2016 · That’s right: in 1916, a newspaper paid people to get married on leap day. Sure enough, on February 29th of that year–exactly 100 years ago today–the Seattle Star splashed out for the ...
