WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1915
Find out what all happened February to August 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)

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: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew. (14. March 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)

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)

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

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

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

Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. (27. March 1915)

The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. (24. April 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: 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)

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)

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

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

World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. (22. February 1915)

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

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