March 1916

Sunday 05:

Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.

Thursday 09:

Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

Wednesday 15:

President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

Sunday 19:

Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.

Monday 20:

1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.