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'''1916''' was a [[year]]. The [[First World War]] continued to rage. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story}})

==Events==
===Dated===
On [[20 August]], the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that thousands had died in the [[Battle of the Somme]]. A man who had been in the battle in [[July]] 1916, but was sent to [[1892]] by a [[Weeping Angel]], died of a heart attack after he read the headline. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Weeping Angels of Mons (comic story)}}) Also during the Battle, the [[Sontaran]] [[Brak]] crashed down to Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}})

In [[December]], the [[Third Doctor]], [[Jo Grant]] and [[Liz Shaw]] visited [[St Petersburg]] in the [[Russia|Russian Empire]] and met [[Grigori Rasputin]] shortly before he was [[murder]]ed by Prince [[Felix Yusupov]] and his co-conspirators Grand Duke [[Dmitri Pavlovich]] and [[Vladimir Purishkevich]] in the [[Moika Palace]], Prince Felix's residence in St Petersburg. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Wages of Sin (novel)}})

===Undated===
The [[First Doctor]] and his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] were caught in a [[Zeppelin]] raid. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Giants (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Alchemists (audio story)}})

[[Dawon]] left the [[Karabar Caves]] in [[India|British India]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Emerald Tiger (audio story)}})

At some point before December {{Dhawan}} brought the Daleks and Cybermen to the [[Winter Palace]] as part of his [[The Master's Dalek Plan|plan]] to steal the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s regenerations, part of his plan also took place in [[2022]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}})

[[Herbert Asquith]] left office as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], having served since [[1908]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Birthright (novel)}})

==Births and deaths==
[[Bernard Trainor]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)}})

[[Richard Hadleman]] was killed in a poison gas attack during the [[Battle of the Somme]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}})

[[Henry James]] died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Malkin Place (audio story)|The Haunting of Malkin Place]]'')

Major [[Nicholas Hatch]] died of [[shrapnel]] wounds at the Somme 8th July. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Hollow Men (novel)}})

== Behind the scenes ==
One possible "game over" for the video game ''[[Don't Blink (video game)|Don't Blink]]'' has the player being sent back in time by a [[Weeping Angel]] to the year 1916 to die in the Battle of the Somme.
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