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September, 1916

2. Bulgarian and German forces enter Rumania on the Dobrudja frontier.

6. The Bulgarians and Germans capture Turtukai, taking 20,000 Rumanian prisoners.

12. Bulgarians and Germans occupy the Greek port of Kavala.

15. The British, using a new type of armored car, capture positions on the Somme front.

23. German Zeppelins raid England.

26. Combles, on the Somme front, captured by the Allies.

29. Rumanian forces severely defeated in Transylvania.


“Every comfort that the saints have in this world is a promise to them of those eternal mercies which the Lord hath provided for them: as every affliction that the wicked have here, is but the beginning of sorrows.”
–Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment