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Date	Event
January 12, 1915	The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
January 13, 1915	The 6.7 Mw  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978 and 32,610.
January 17, 1915	Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
January 18, 1915	Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
January 19, 1915	Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
January 19, 1915	German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
January 21, 1915	Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
January 22, 1915	Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
January 24, 1915	World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
January 25, 1915	Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
January 26, 1915	The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
January 28, 1915	An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
January 31, 1915	World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
February 8, 1915	D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
February 12, 1915	In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 18, 1915	U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
February 19, 1915	World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
March 18, 1915	World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
March 26, 1915	The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
March 27, 1915	Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
April 18, 1915	French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
April 22, 1915	World War I: 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.
April 24, 1915	The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
April 25, 1915	World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
April 26, 1915	World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
May 1, 1915	The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
May 6, 1915	Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
May 6, 1915	Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora broke loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.
May 7, 1915	World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
May 7, 1915	The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
May 9, 1915	World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
May 14, 1915	The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 17, 1915	The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
May 22, 1915	Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
May 22, 1915	Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
May 23, 1915	World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
May 24, 1915	World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
May 27, 1915	HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
June 5, 1915	Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
June 9, 1915	William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
June 21, 1915	The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
June 29, 1915	The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
July 1, 1915	Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 5, 1915	The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
July 7, 1915	The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
July 7, 1915	Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
July 14, 1915	Beginning of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
July 16, 1915	Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
July 16, 1915	At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
July 24, 1915	The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
July 25, 1915	RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
July 28, 1915	The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
August 4, 1915	World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
August 6, 1915	World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
August 15, 1915	A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
August 17, 1915	Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
August 17, 1915	A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
August 27, 1915	Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona, by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
August 29, 1915	US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
September 5, 1915	The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 12, 1915	French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
September 15, 1915	New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
September 25, 1915	World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
September 30, 1915	World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
October 6, 1915	Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen .
October 6, 1915	Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
October 12, 1915	World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
October 13, 1915	First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
October 14, 1915	World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
November 25, 1915	Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
December 12, 1915	Yuan Shikai declares the establishment of the Empire of China and proclaims himself Emperor.
December 20, 1915	World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
December 25, 1915	The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic.