1916 in France
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Events from the year 1916 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 29 January - Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
- 21 February - Battle of Verdun begins.
- 27 April - Battle of Hulluch in World War I, 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division decimated in one of the most heavily concentrated gas attacks of the war.
- 16 May - Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire following the conclusion of World War I into French and British spheres of influence.
- 1 July - First day on the Somme.
- 14 July - Battle of Bazentin Ridge, start of the second phase of the Battle of the Somme.
- 15 September - Battle of Flers-Courcelette begins and lasts for a week, third and last large-scale offensive by the British Army during the Battle of the Somme.
- 25 September - Battle of Morval.
- 26 September - Battle of Thiepval Ridge begins, German fortress of Thiepval is captured by the British.
- 28 September - Battle of Thiepval Ridge ends successfully, with the capture of the Schwaben Redoubt.
- 13 November - Battle of the Ancre launches, the final act of the Battle of the Somme.
- 18 November - Battle of the Somme ends.
- 18 December - Battle of Verdun ends.
Sport
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Births
January to June
- 11 January - Bernard Blier, actor (died 1989)
- 22 January - Henri Dutilleux, composer (died 2013)
- 14 February - Marcel Bigeard, military officer (died 2010)
- 16 February - Julien Darui, international soccer player (died 1987)
- 20 March - Pierre Messmer, Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (died 2007)
- 4 April - Robert Charpentier, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (died 1966)
- 9 April - Léonie Duquet, nun (killed by a death squad in Argentina died 1977)
- 5 May - Andrée Clair, writer (died 1982)
- 6 May - Jacques-Laurent Bost, journalist (died 1990)
- 25 May - André Devigny, soldier and French Resistance member (died 1999)
- 30 May - Jacques Georges, soccer administrator (died 2004)
- 3 June - Denise Vernac, actress (died 1984)
- 10 June - André Mandouze, academic and journalist (died 2006)
- 16 June - Francis Cammaerts, Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent (died 2006)
July to December
- 22 July - Marcel Cerdan, boxer (died 1949)
- 24 August - Léo Ferré, poet, composer, singer and musician (died 1993)
- 17 September - Francis Lefebure, physician (died 1988)
- 21 September - Françoise Giroud, journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician (died 2003)
- 18 October - Jean-Yves Couliou, painter (died 1995)
- 19 October - Jean Dausset, immunologist, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980
- 26 October - François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995 (died 1996)
- 14 November - Roger Apéry, mathematician (died 1994)
Full date unknown
- Lucienne Abraham, Trotskyist politician (died 1970)
Deaths
- 17 January - Marie Bracquemond, artist (born 1841)
- 22 February - Émile Driant, nationalist writer, politician, and army officer (born 1855; killed in action)
- 4 March — Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker (born 1880)
- 21 March - Léon Labbé, surgeon and politician (born 1832)
- 12 May - Frank Cheadle, Australian rugby league footballer and World War I soldier (born 1885)
- 19 May - Georges Boillot, motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot (born 1884)
- 29 June - Georges Lacombe, sculptor and painter (born 1868)
- 6 July - Odilon Redon, painter and printmaker (born 1840)
- 8 July - Augustin Cochin (historian)
- 28 August - Henri Harpignies, painter (born 1819)
- 26 September — Max Ritter von Mulzer, World War I German flying ace (1893)
- 13 December - Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (born 1845)
- 14 December - Frédéric Febvre, actor (born 1835)