World War I - 1916 DAY BY DAY

JANUARY

1st- Mediterranean: German submarine sinks the English passenger ship HMS Persia near Crete; 343 people die. Mexico: Venustiano Carranza arrives with his entourage in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, which he proclaims capital of the republic.

2-Africa: Yaoundé, the capital of the German colony of Cameroon, surrenders to the siege of the French and British. The only focus of resistance left in the colony is Mora, which has been under siege for more than a year.

3-England and France agree on the distribution of territories in the Ottoman Empire after the war; the French will receive Syria and Lebanon, being able to exert their influence until Mosul. The English will obtain Basra, and Baghdad will be able to extend their influence towards the east, including Persia. At first Palestine was indefinite.

4-Belgium: The historian Godefroid Kurth dies. Mesopotamia: part of Basra, an English army commanded by Colonel Aymler, in the direction of Kut-el-Amara

5-Austrian army enters Montenegro from the east, attacking the last Montenegrin redoubt that continues to resist: Mojkovac

6-United Kingdom: Parliament votes on the law on the introduction of compulsory military service for singles. Montenegro: The Austrians are rejected after an intense combat in Mojkovac.

7-Black Sea: the Goeben fights the battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya for 11 minutes; the Goeben uses its superior speed to escape...