Editing 1916 (section)

=== July ===
{{main|July 1916}}
[[File:Map_of_the_Battle_of_the_Somme,_1916.svg|thumb|240px|right|[[July 1]]&ndash;[[November 18]]:[[Battle of the Somme]] between British and German.]]
* [[July 1]]&ndash;[[November 18]] &ndash; WWI: [[Battle of the Somme]], opening with explosion of the British [[Y Sap mine|Y Sap]] and [[Lochnagar mine]]s and the [[Battle of Albert (1916)|Battle of Albert]]: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 [[British Empire]] casualties on the [[First day on the Somme|first day]], 19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Gary|title=The Somme|publisher=Cassell|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/somme0000shef/page/68 68]|isbn=0-304-36649-8|url=https://archive.org/details/somme0000shef/page/68}}</ref> The immediate result is tactically inconclusive.
* [[July 1]]&ndash;[[July 12|12]] &ndash; [[Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916]]: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along {{convert|80|mi|km}} of [[New Jersey]] coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author [[Peter Benchley]], over half a century later, to write ''[[Jaws (novel)|Jaws]]''.
* [[July 2]] &ndash; WWI: [[Battle of Erzincan]] &ndash; [[Russian Empire|Russia]]n forces defeat troops of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in [[Armenia]].
* [[July 6]] &ndash; WWI: The [[Battle of Kostiuchnówka]] concludes in [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] (modern-day Ukraine) with Russian Imperial troops breaking through the line, forcing the [[Polish Legions in World War I|Polish Legions]] and supporting Hungarian troops to retreat, with the Poles enduring 2,000 casualties.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Matuszak|first=Tomasz|title=Bitwa pod Kostiuchnówką|journal=Zwycięstwa Oręża Polskiego|date=2006-06-17|issue=16|pages=5–12|publisher=Rzeczpospolita & Mówią Wieki|language=pl}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; In [[Seattle]], [[William Boeing]] incorporates ''Pacific Aero Products'' (later renamed ''[[Boeing]]'').
* [[July 15]]&ndash;[[July 19|19]] &ndash; WWI: [[Battle of Delville Wood]] &ndash; 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed, in South Africa's biggest loss during the First World War.
* [[July 19]]&ndash;[[July 20|20]] &ndash; WWI: [[Battle of Fromelles]] &ndash; An attack by Australian and British troops is repulsed by the German army, with heavy casualties.
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Preparedness Day Bombing]]: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 and injuring 40; [[Warren Billings]] and [[Thomas Mooney|Tom Mooney]] are later wrongly convicted of it.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; WWI: [[East African Campaign (World War I)|East African Campaign]] &ndash; The German armed ship [[MV Liemba|SMS ''Graf von Goetzen'']] [[Scuttling|scuttles]] herself on [[Lake Tanganyika]].
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Matheson Fire]]: In [[Ontario]], Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of [[Cochrane, Ontario|Cochrane]] and [[Matheson, Ontario|Matheson]], killing 233.
* [[July 30]] &ndash; German agents cause the [[Black Tom explosion]] in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least 7 people.