1915 h2 TimelineJuly01 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service.
01 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces.
09 - World War I German Southwest African surrenders to British South African troops under Gen. Botha.
10 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa.
18 - World War I 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men.
24 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die.
28 - US forces invade Haiti. u.1934.
28 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings.
August05 - Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans.
05 - World War I German troops over run Warsaw.
06 - World War I Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage with the debarkation of a new force of British troops in Suvla Bay, on the west of the peninsula.
07 - World War I Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die.
08 - Russians defeat German fleet of 9 battleships and 12 cruisers at entrance of Gulf of Riga.
11 - US Naval Observatory requested Eastman Kodak to develop an aerial camera with high-speed lens suitable for photography at 1,000 or 2,000 yards' altitude.
14 - World War I British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000.
17 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed).
17 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life.
17 - World War I German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana.
19 - World War I Arabic, a White Star liner, sunk by submarine off Fastnet; 44 lives lost; 2 Americans.
19 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands.
20 - World War I Italy declares war on Turkey.
21 - President Wilson sends notes to Secretary of War Garrison and Secretary of the Navy Daniels directing them to draft a defense program.
25 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage.
26 - World War I German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia.
28 - World War I Italians reach Cima Cista, north-east of Trent.
30 - World War I British submarine attacks Constantinople and damages the Galata Bridge.
31 - World War I Lutsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austrians.
September01 - USAMilitary, Aviation US Congress supplemented appropriation of Army aeronautics to $13,281,666 from $300,000 of previous fiscal year.
06 - World War I Czar Nicolas II assumes command of Russian armies. Grand Duke Nicholas is transferred to the Caucasus.
07 - John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll.s.may 28 1915, jun 28 1917
16 - Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma.
21 - Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido.
22 - World War I Opening of Second Battle of Champagne on western front
25 - Allies open offensive on Western front and occupy Lens.
25 - World War I -sep 26 1915 Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties.
29 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta.
29 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent.
October03 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada.
04 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established.
05 - World War I Franco-British force lands at Salonika and Greek ministry resigns.
08 - World War I Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed.
09 - World War I Belgrade again occupied by Austro-Germans.
09 - World War I Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders.
11 - World War I Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins.
12 - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities.
12 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile.
13 - World War I, Aviation London bombarded by Zeppelins; 55 killed; 114 injured.
14 - World War I Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
15 - World War I Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.
17 - World War I France at war with Bulgaria.
18 - World War I 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo.
19 - World War I Italy and Russia at war with Bulgaria.
19 - Two Americans die in sinking of Arabic off Ireland.
21 - USA The Washington Post carries story that General Staff is planning to send a force of 1 million soldiers overseas.
23 - USA 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote.
24 - USA Baltimore Sun carries story that General Staff is planning to send a force of 1 million soldiers overseas.
29 - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France, succeeding Viviani.
29 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia.
November05 - World War I Nish, Serbian war capital, captured by Bulgarians.
09 - World War I Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272.
12 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago.
14 - Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia.
14 - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala.
24 - Serbian government transferred to Scutari, Albania.
24 - Serbian leader flees to Albania.
December00 - Aviation All-metal fully cantilever-wing monoplane produced by Hugo Junkers in Germany, the J-1 powered by a 120-hp Mercedes, made its first successful flights.
04 - Henry Ford, with large party of peace advocates, sails for Europe on chartered steamer Oscar II, with the object of ending the war.
04 - Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga.
04 - Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
10 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled.
12 - Aviaiton An all-steel frame, fabric-covered combat plane successfully flown, one designed by Grover C. Loening and built by Sturtevant Aeroplane Co.
12 - World War I Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia.
12 - Aviation 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany.
13 - World War I Serbia in hands of enemy, Allied forces abandoning last positions and retiring across Greek frontier.
14 - Sports Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion.
15 - World War I Gen. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France.
16 - Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity".
18 - President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt.
20 - World War I Dardanelles expedition ends; British troops begin withdrawal from positions on Suvla Bay and Gallipoli Peninsula.
20 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia.
22 - Henry Ford leaves his peace party at Christiania and returns to the United States.
22 - Sports Federal Baseball League disolved.
30 - Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die.
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