1916 South American Championship — football tournament

1916 Summer Olympics — Games of the VI Olympiad, scheduled to be played in Berlin, Germany, in 1916 but canceled due to World War I

1916 battle on the Eastern Front during World War I

Basmachi movement — decentralized decolonial movement which undertook a uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia (1916–1934)

1916 part of the battle of the Somme

First Feminist Congress in Yucatán, Mexico

During World War I, between a mine-sweeping squadron of the Royal Navy and German torpedo boats

Naval engagement fought during the First World War

1916 WWI battle of the Mesopotamian Campaign

1916 battle fought between the United States and Mexican Revolutionary forces under Pancho Villa

1916 battle in East Africa during World War I