WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1915
Find out what all happened May to August 1915

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

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: 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)

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)

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)

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

First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded. (16. July 1915)

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

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)

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

World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. (9. May 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)

Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation) (7. May 1915)

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

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

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