WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1915
Find out what all happened January to July 1915

The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. (12. January 1915)

Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction. (22. May 1915)

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. (18. January 1915)

Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. (27. March 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. (21. June 1915)

Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. (1. July 1915)

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. (5. June 1915)

RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. (25. July 1915)

Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco. (25. January 1915)

Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon. (22. January 1915)

World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. (25. April 1915)

Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War. (16. July 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. (24. July 1915)

Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association. (26. March 1915)

An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. (7. July 1915)

World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo. (7. July 1915)

An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces. (28. January 1915)

World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew. (14. March 1915)

World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. (24. May 1915)

The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress. (26. January 1915)