In history, year 1915 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1915.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 13 january | About 30,000 people in Avezzano, Italy—96% of its population—were killed when an earthquake struck the region. |
| 18 january | Japanese Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. |
| 23 january | The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a seminal moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners. |
| 08 february | Film director D. W. Griffith The Birth of a Nation was released, becoming one of the most influential and controversial films in the history of American cinema. |
| 03 march | The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), thepredecessor of NASA, was founded. |
| 09 march | The Panama–California Exposition opened in San Diego's BalboaPark, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. |
| 14 march | First World War-British forces cornered and sank the SMSDresden, the last remnant of the German East Asia Squadron, near theChilean island of Más a Tierra. |
| 27 march | Typhoid Mary, the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine, where she would spend the rest of her life. |
| 24 april | The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with thearrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople. |
| 25 april | First World War-Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landedat Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles tobegin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. |
| 03 may | The oldest continually operational Royal Air Force station, RAF Northolt, opened as the home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron. |
| 03 may | Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote 'InFlanders Fields', later considered one of the most notable poems written during the First World War. |
| 09 may | British forces launched the Battle of Aubers Ridge, anoffensive on the Western Front which was part of the larger FrenchSecond Battle of Artois. |
| 22 may | Five trains were involved in a crash near Gretna Green,Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others. |
| 22 may | Lassen Peak, in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California, violently erupted, the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens in 1980. |
| 22 may | Five trains were involved in the United Kingdom's deadliesttrain crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others. |
| 23 may | The Quintinshill rail disaster took place on May 22, 1915 near Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, involving 5 trains in the collision. This was the worst rail crash in the history of United Kingdom in terms of fatalities, 226 people were killed in the accident and 246 were injured. |
| 24 may | World War I: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, join the conflict on the side of the Allies. The Entente Powers or Allies were the countries at war with the Central Powers during World War I. The members of the Triple Entente were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire. |
| 25 may | Sabarmati ashram was established by MK Gandhi. Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad Gujarat. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi. |
| 27 may | HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom with the loss of 352 lives. |
| 05 june | Denmark amended its constitution to allow women suffrage. It was a moment for gaining the right to vote for woman. In the earlier times women were not given right to vote. This was a huge worldwide moment in which women actively participated. |
| 01 july | World War I-German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens became the first person to shoot down another plane in aerial combat using asynchronized machine gun. |
| 07 july | Sinhalese army officer Henry Pedris was wrongly executed byBritish authorities for allegedly inciting race riots, hastening the SriLankan independence movement. |
| 24 july | The passenger ship SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dockin the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew, the largest lossof life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. |
| 15 august | The New York World revealed that Germany had purchased excessphenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for thewar effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. |
| 17 august | American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominentcitizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-oldgirl. |
| 12 october | A German firing squad executed British nurse Edith Cavell forhelping Allied soldiers to escape occupied Belgium. |
| 23 october | 25,000 women, as part of the women’s suffrage movement, tread down Fifth Avenue in New York City defending their right to vote. |
| 28 october | Richard Strauss conducted the first performance of his tonepoem An Alpine Symphony in Berlin. |
| 29 october | Richard Strauss conducted the first performance of his tonepoem An Alpine Symphony in Berlin. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 February | Johannes Kotkas / Wrestler / Estonia |
| 04 August | Warren Avis / Business Man / United States of America |
| 04 February | William Talman / Actor / United States of America |
| 06 May | Theodore H. White / Journalist / United States of America |
| 07 February | Teoctist Arăpașu / Patriarch / Romania |
| 08 May | Milton Meltzer / Author / United States of America |
| 09 March | Johnnie Johnson / Pilot / United Kingdom |
| 10 January | Cynthia Freeman / Author / United States of America |
| 10 December | Nicky Barr / Soldier / Australia |
| 10 May | Denis Thatcher / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 14 January | Mark Goodson / Producer / United States of America |
| 14 November | Martha Tilton / Actress / United States of America |
| 15 September | Al Casey / Guitarist / United States of America |
| 16 June | John Tukey / Academic / United States of America |
| 17 April | Martin Clemens / Soldier / Scotland |
| 21 June | Wilhelm Gliese / Soldier / Germany |
| 22 September | Grigory Frid / Composer / Russia |
| 25 November | Augusto Pinochet / Politician / Chile |
| 26 January | William Hopper / Actor / United States of America |
| 30 October | Fred W. Friendly / Journalist / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 24 October | Jeevan / Actor / India |
| 02 February | Khushwant Singh / Author / India |
| 08 August | Bhisham Sahni / Writer / India |
| 08 June | Kayyar Kinhanna Rai / Author / India |
| 27 March | Pushpalata Das / Freedom Fighter / India |
| 22 July | Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah / Politician / India |
| 15 October | Jayant / Actor / India |
| 06 August | Gurdial Singh Dhillon / Politician / India |
| NA NA | Madan Puri / Actor / India |
| 09 August | Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai / Politician / India |
| 20 August | D. Devaraj Urs / Politician / India |
| 06 February | Kavi Pradeep / Poet / India |
| 25 June | Kashmir Singh Katoch / Military Advisor / India |
| 17 September | M. F. Husain / Painter / India |
| 12 June | Nagraj Rao Havaldar / Singer / India |
| 15 November | V. R. Krishna Iyer / Judge / India |
| 17 September | Maqbool Fida Husain / Painter / India |
| 11 March | Vijay Hazare / Cricketer / India |
| 15 September | Karam Singh / Soldier / India |
| 02 February | Khushwant Singh / Author / India |