January 1916

Saturday 01:

German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.

Saturday 08:

World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

Sunday 09:

The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.

Monday 17:

The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.

Tuesday 18:

A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.

Monday 24:

In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.

Friday 28:

Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Saturday 29:

World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins .