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5 days ago · World War I - Eastern Front, 1916, Trench Warfare: Brusilov's offensive was Russia's last effective military effort of the war, and seriously depleted Russian resources. Romania entered the war on the side of the Allies and fell before the end of the year.
1 day ago · The 1916 United States presidential election was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
1 day ago · World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
- World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
- The war pitted the Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) against the Allies (mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Ja...
- The Allies won World War I after four years of combat and the deaths of some 8.5 million soldiers as a result of battle wounds or disease.
- Some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds or disease during World War I. Perhaps as many as 13,000,000 civilians also died. This immensely...
- Four imperial dynasties—the Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanovs of Ru...
1 day ago · It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France. The battle was intended to hasten a victory for the Allies. More than three million men fought in the battle, of whom more than one million were either wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in all of human history.
- Inconclusive
- Bulge driven into the Noyon salient
23 hours ago · The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
Jul 24, 2024 · At noon on Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, James Connolly led the Irish Citizen Army from Liberty Hall and marched into the General Post Office in Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street. The men set about barricading themselves into the building. They waited for the onslaught of the British troops.