1915 - What happened in 1915 ?

January 1915

Wednesday 13:

Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800

Monday 18:

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to China in a bid to increase its power in east Asia.

Tuesday 19:

German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

Monday 25:

Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

Thursday 28:

An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.

February 1915

Thursday 04:

Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.

Monday 08:

D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Friday 12:

In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

Friday 19:

World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began.

Monday 22:

Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

March 1915

Wednesday 03:

NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.

Friday 05:

World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

Sunday 14:

World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

Thursday 18:

World War I: Three battleships are sunk during a failed British & French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

Friday 19:

Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.

April 1915

Thursday 15:

The Armenian Genocide began when the Ottoman Empire undertook the systematic annihilation of Armenian intellectuals and entrepreneurs within the city of Constantinople and later the entire Armenian population of the Empire.

Sunday 18:

Early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

Thursday 22:

The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

Saturday 24:

Armenian Genocide: The Ottoman Government began their genocidal campaign to annihilate the Armenian people of Anatolia.

Sunday 25:

The ANZAC tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.

May 1915

Friday 07:

World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.

Sunday 09:

World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

Monday 17:

The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.

Sunday 23:

World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.

Monday 24:

World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

June 1915

Saturday 05:

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

Wednesday 09:

U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.

Wednesday 16:

Foundation of the British Women's Institute

Monday 21:

The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

July 1915

Saturday 24:

Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives.

August 1915

Friday 06:

The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

Monday 16:

World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).

Tuesday 17:

Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tuesday 31:

Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

September 1915

Monday 06:

The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.

Tuesday 07:

1915 - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

October 1915

Tuesday 05:

Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.

Thursday 07:

Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee 222-0 in football (record).

Tuesday 12:

World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Saturday 23:

Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march up Fifth Avenue to demand the right to vote.

November 1915

Monday 29:

Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.

December 1915

Thursday 02:

Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

Sunday 12:

President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai declares himself the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, restoring monarchy.

Monday 20:

Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli