WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1915
Find out what all happened February to December 1915

President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China. (12. December 1915)

World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli. (20. December 1915)

Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. (5. October 1915)

A story in New York World reveals that the Weimar German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. (15. August 1915)

World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli. (19. February 1915)

World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915. (4. August 1915)

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

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)

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

World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. (23. May 1915)

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

A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). (17. August 1915)

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

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

Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin. (28. October 1915)

The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls. (17. May 1915)

The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. (22. April 1915)