1915 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1915?
- 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 21, 1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- February 14, 1915 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 18, 1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- April 24, 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- May 1, 1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, 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, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
- May 17, 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- May 22, 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
- May 23, 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- 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 an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- July 7, 1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
- July 24, 1915 – The passenger ship S.S. 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.
- August 17, 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.
- October 12, 1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- November 1, 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- December 18, 1915 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.
- December 20, 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
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