1915

Year 1915 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 13-day-slower ).

January



 * January - While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, "" infects 25 people, and is placed in for life.
 * - Sinking of the battleship, off , , , by a.
 * The is established by an act of the.
 * rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
 * – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in, : more than 12,000 dead.
 * patents the discharge tube for use in.
 * German s bomb the cities of and  in the  for the first time, killing more than 20.
 * - is founded in.
 * - An act of the designates the, begun in , as a military branch.
 * - : uses  against ns.
 * - An act of the designates the, begun in , as a military branch.
 * - : uses  against ns.



February

 * - The controversial film  by premieres.
 * - In the first stone of the  is put into place.
 * - In the  is opened.

March

 * -, the predecessor of , is founded.
 * Off the coast of, the forces the German light cruiser  to scuttle.
 * , and  agree to give  and the  to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
 * - World War I: attack on the  fails.
 * - is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a.
 * -  F-4 sinks off :  21 dead.
 * - The first  is celebrated by   at the newly consecrated  in,.
 * - The first  is celebrated by   at the newly consecrated  in,.

April

 * - - 's attack against 's troops in . Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's  and s
 * - :  -  troops introduce  at,.
 * - The arrests hundreds of  intellectuals. Armenians mark this as the start of the  and commemorate the anniversary.
 * The tradition begins during  with a landing at  on the  coast.
 * The Great Fire of, 's.
 * - n  sunk in.
 * - n  sunk in.

May

 * - writes .
 * - : begin shelling  from a new position behind their lines.
 * - World War I: The is sunk by a   killing 1,198.
 * - World War I: -  and  forces fight.
 * - The last purely government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister  forms an all party coalition.
 * - railway disaster,, UK: 200 killed.
 * - : joins the  after they declare war on.
 * - becomes president of.

June

 * - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at : Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated.
 * - U.S. Secretary of State resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the  sinking.
 * - Foundation of the

July

 * - An extremely overloaded  with 157 passengers crashes near  resulting in 15 casualties.
 * - The steamer  capsizes in central, with the loss of 845 lives.
 * - begins

August

 * – - Hurricane Two of the  over  and : 275 dead.
 * - World War I: begins - The  mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at.
 * - The Entente promises the, should victory be achieved over and its allied , the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern ? of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
 * - ish American is  for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in.
 * - of the  pitches a  against the.

September

 * - The first prototype is tested for the  for the first time.
 * - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
 * - The begins electrified commuter rail service between  and, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.  This type of system would later be used in long-distance passenger trains between , , and.

October

 * - : nurse  is executed by a  firing squad for helping  soldiers escape from.
 * - : invades .  enters the war, invading . Retreat of the  towards  begins (
 * - US recognizes government of  ' (not ' until )
 * - becomes 7th.

November

 * Undated -, a secret understanding between the governments of Britain and France to overtake Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq) and establish their own zone of influence.
 * - Vision allegedly encountered by various military personnel in Europe at 22:30 hours, as recounted on the television series.
 * - The theory of is formulated.

December

 * - Chinese president declares himself Emperor
 * - Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday.

Undated

 * proposes the of.
 * Emory College is rechartered as, and plans to move its main campus from to.
 * was founded in the summer of this year
 * buys the .
 * Automobile speed record of 102.6 set at, . by  driving a.
 * The first appears in.
 * is introduced in and.
 * 's short novel  is first published in Germany.
 * , a former lover of  died.

Fictional
The following are references to year 1915 in fiction: (unknown).

January-February

 * -, American historian
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American geographer and cartographer (d. )
 * -, American politician
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. )
 * -, American television game show producer (d. )
 * -, Spanish politician
 * -, (d. )
 * -, British economist, laureate (d. )
 * -, American painter (d. )
 * -, American musician, composer, arranger (d. )
 * -, German SS officer (d. )
 * -, British cabinet minister (d. )
 * -, American folklorist and musicologist (d. )
 * -, American monk and author (d. )
 * -, Czech statesman (d. )
 * - Sir, English footballer (d. )
 * -, American actress and painter
 * -, Indian writer
 * - Sir, English comedian, singer, and actor
 * -, American physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. )
 * -, British author and soldier
 * -, American composer (d. )
 * -, American college football coach (d. )
 * -, South African poet
 * -, British politician
 * -, American pilot
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American film and stage actor (d. )
 * -, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the (d. )

March-April

 * -, American actor
 * -, Spanish composer (d. )
 * -, English pilot (d. )
 * -, Italian artist and designer (d. )
 * -, Indian cricketer (d. )
 * -, Canadian conductor and composer (d. )
 * -, Australian equestrian
 * -, American actress
 * -, Ukrainian pianist (d. )
 * -, Soviet sniper (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * , Paraguayan footballer (d. )
 * , Italian politician
 * -, English historian (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * , German-born economist
 * , American singer (d. )
 * -, Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist
 * -, American actor
 * -, Czech writer
 * -, American-born artist
 * -, Mexican actor (d. )
 * -, Italian rabbi
 * -, American-born artist
 * -, Mexican actor (d. )
 * -, Italian rabbi

May-June

 * , Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. )
 * , American athlete (d. )
 * -, American singer and songwriter (d. )
 * -, American entertainer (d. )
 * , American film director (d. )
 * , American composer
 * -, American author
 * -, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. )
 * , English-born author, artist, and activist (d. )
 * , Italian film director
 * , American economist, laureate
 * , Israeli military leader and politician (d. )
 * , English actor
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American author
 * -, German conductor (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American inventor and musician
 * , Canadian-born writer, laureate (d. )
 * , Turkish author
 * -, American banker and philanthropist
 * -, American virologist, recipient of the
 * , Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. )
 * -, American gangster (d. )
 * - Sir, British astronomer (d. )
 * -, American author
 * -, American feminist and author
 * -, American musician
 * , Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. )
 * -, American gangster (d. )
 * - Sir, British astronomer (d. )
 * -, American author
 * -, American feminist and author
 * -, American musician
 * -, American musician

July-August

 * -, American athlete
 * -, American nuclear scientist
 * -, Indian yogi
 * , American physicist, laureate
 * , American accordion player (d. )
 * , Canadian-born basketball coach
 * , Canadian politician (d. )
 * -, American film screenwriter (d. )
 * -, British actor (d. )
 * -, American violist (d. )
 * -, American physicist, laureate
 * , American illustrator
 * , British sports commentator
 * -, Swedish actress (d. )
 * , American composer (d. )
 * , British sports commentator
 * -, Swedish actress (d. )
 * , American composer (d. )
 * , American composer (d. )
 * , American composer (d. )

September-October

 * -, American actor
 * -, Norwegian composer
 * -, American actor
 * -, American television personality (d. )
 * -, American astronomer
 * , Indian artist
 * , Spanish-born philosopher
 * , American flautist (d. )
 * , American physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, American entrepreneur (d. )
 * -, Governor of Georgia (d. )
 * -, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
 * -, English artist (d. )
 * , American singer
 * Israeli politician
 * -, American playwright (d. )
 * , American comic book creator (d. )
 * , Italian baritone (d. )
 * -, American actress and dancer
 * -, American physician (d. )
 * , American comic book creator (d. )
 * , Italian baritone (d. )
 * -, American actress and dancer
 * -, American physician (d. )

November-December

 * -, 4th
 * , French cartoonist (d. )
 * , American politician
 * -, U.S. Senator (d. )
 * -, French philosopher and literary critic (d. )
 * -, British actress (d. )
 * -, American physiologist, laureate (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, Estonian painter
 * , American musician (d. )
 * , Canadian-born chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, American actor
 * - American screenwriter (d. )
 * -, German-born soprano (d. )
 * -, American entertainer (d. )
 * -, American-Canadian writer (d. )
 * -, American political scientist
 * -, French singer (d. )
 * -, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. )
 * -, American actress
 * -, Hungarian footballer (d. )
 * -, American actress
 * -, Hungarian footballer (d. )

January - June

 * -, Russian composer (b. )
 * -, English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. )
 * -, Scottish Christian missionary (b. )
 * -, baseball player (b. )
 * -, English inventor of (b. )
 * -, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. )
 * -, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the book (b. )
 * -, Scottish runner (b. )
 * -, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. )
 * , English poet (b. )
 * , Canadian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, the youngest British soldier to die during the First World War {b. c. 1901)
 * -, poet (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, poet (killed in battle) (b. )

July - December

 * -, (b. )
 * -, American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b. )
 * -, German scientist, recipient of the (b. )
 * - American silent film comedian (b. )
 * -, aviator (killed in action) (b. )
 * -, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. )
 * -, America politician from Rhode Island (b. )
 * -, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. )
 * -, brother of (killed in battle) (b. )
 * , nurse and war heroine (shot) (b. )
 * , British poet (killed in battle) (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, American educator (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, (b. )

Nobel prizes

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 * - not awarded
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 * - not awarded
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