WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1915
Find out what all happened May to November 1915

An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. (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 joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. (23. May 1915)

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany. (1. May 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: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. (14. October 1915)

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

World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. (24. May 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: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. (6. August 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)

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

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

Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities. (7. July 1915)

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

Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote. (23. 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)

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

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

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