WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1915
Find out what all happened March 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)

Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States. (17. August 1915)

World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships were sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. (18. March 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: end of First Battle of the Isonzo. (7. July 1915)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins. (5. September 1915)

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

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

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

Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century. (22. May 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)

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 last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli. (20. December 1915)

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