WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1915
Find out what all happened February to November 1915

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins. (5. September 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)

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. (9. June 1915)

World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins. (25. September 1915)

Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot. (1. November 1915)

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

World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium (12. October 1915)

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

D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. (8. February 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)

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)

World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire (7. May 1915)

NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. (3. March 1915)

French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. (18. April 1915)

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

World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. (14. October 1915)

The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I. (13. October 1915)

US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. (29. August 1915)

Foundation of the British Women's Institute. (16. June 1915)

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