1915

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1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Unknown dates
- 2.1 Ongoing events
- 2.2 Disputed Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Marriages
6 Nobel Prizes

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Events

January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy - 32.610 dead
January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
January 27 - Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor
January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS Dresden.
March 14 - Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
March 25 - US submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii - 21 dead
March 28 - The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul.
April 13 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's attack against Alvaro Obregon's troops in Celaya. Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's barbed wire and machine guns
April 22 - World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
April 24 - The Ottoman Empire arrests hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, executing most. Armenians mark this as the start of the Armenian Genocide and commemorate the anniversary.
April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmora.
May 3 - John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields
May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight.
May 17 - The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.
May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK. 200 killed.
May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
June 3 - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at León. Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated
June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute
July 7 - An extremely overloaded Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario resulting in 15 casualties.
July 24 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives.
July 28 - United States occupation of Haiti begins
August 5 – 23 - hurricane over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 dead
August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
August 16 - The Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over Austro-Hungary and it's allied Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
September 7 - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
October 19 - US recognizes Mexican government of Victoriano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917)
October 27 - William Morris Hughes becomes 7th Prime Minister of Australia.
November 25 - The theory of general relativity is formulated.
December 26 - Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.