1915 Jan 1, German Submarine U-24 Sank the British Battleship Formidable Off the Coast

1915 Jan 1, German submarine U-24 sank the British battleship Formidable off the coast of Plymouth Massachusetts.
(HN, 1/1/99)

1915 Jan 14, The French abandoned five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.
(HN, 1/14/99)

1915 Jan 19, The first German air raids on Britain inflicted minor casualties.
(HN, 1/19/99)

1915 Jan 24, The German cruiser Blücher was sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
(HN, 1/24/99)

1915 Jan 28, The German navy attacked the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
(HN, 1/28/99)

1915 Jan 31, Germans used poison gas on the Russians at Bolimov.
(HN, 1/31/99)

1915 Jan 31, German U-boats sank two British steamers in the English Channel.
(HN, 1/31/99)

1915 Feb 4, Germans decreed British waters part of war zone; all ships were to be sunk without warning.
(HN, 2/4/99)

1915 Feb 7, Fieldmarshal Paul von Hindenburg moved on Russians at Masurian Lakes.
(HN, 2/7/99)

1915 Feb 10, President Wilson blasted the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans. He also warned the Kaiser that he would hold Germany "to a strict accountability" for U.S. lives and property endangered. In Europe [Lithuania], the Germans encircled and captured 100,000 Russians near Nieman River. When the United States entered World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle anti-war sentiment.
(HN, 2/10/97)

1915 Feb 14, The Kaiser invited the U.S. Ambassador Gerard to Berlin in order to confer on the war.
(HN, 2/14/98)

1915 Mar 1, The Allies announced their aim to cut off all German supplies, and assured the safety of the neutrals.
(HN, 3/1/98)

1915 Mar 9, The Germans took Grondno on the Eastern Front.
(HN, 3/9/98)

1915 Mar 13, The Germans repelled a British Expeditionary Force attack at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in France.
(HN, 3/13/99)

1915 Mar 14, The British Navy sank the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.
(HN, 3/14/98)

1915 Mar 22, A German Zepplin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.
(HN, 3/22/97)

1915 Apr 22, Germans made the first use of poison gas in World War I at the Second Battle Ypres. Chlorine gas was used along 4 miles of the French line at Ypres.
(NH, 10/98, p.18)(HN, 4/22/99)

1915 May 1, A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Gulflight I.
(HN, 5/1/98)

1915 May 7, During the second year of WWI, the British Cunard ocean liner Lusitania, on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, sank off the coast of Ireland in only 18 minutes after being struck by a torpedo fired by the German U-boat U-20. Of 1,959 [1,978] passengers and crew, 1,195 died. Of the fatalities, 123 were Americans. Even though the Germans maintained the liner was carrying arms purchased in America to Britain, the sinking of a passenger ship aroused intense anger against the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and hastened America's entrance into the war.
(CFA, '96, p.46)(AP, 5/7/97)(HN, 5/7/98)(HNPD, 5/7/99)(HN, 5/7/99)

1915 May 9, German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois.
(HN, 5/9/98)

1915 Jun 21, Germany used poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
(HN, 6/21/98)

1915 Jun 22, Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreated.
(HN, 6/22/98)

1915 Aug 5, The Austro-German Army took Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front.
(HN, 8/5/98)

1915 Aug 19, The British ocean liner Arabic was sunk by Germany. After the sinking Germany promised that no more merchant ships would be torpedoed without warning. Two Americans were aboard and Germany feared U.S. entry into World War I. Earlier, in May 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania, killing 60 percent of those on board-some 1,198-of whom 128 were Americans. The threat of American intervention receded until the beleaguered Germans believed it was necessary to resume unrestricted submarine warfare to break the British blockade. On January 31, 1917, Berlin's announcement that its submarines would "sink on sight" brought the United States into the war.
(HNQ, 4/7/99)

1915 Sep 2, Austro-German armies took Grodno, Poland.
(HN, 9/2/98)

1915 Sep 8, Germany began a new offensive in Argonne on the Western Front.
(HN, 9/8/98)

1915 Sep 25, An allied offensive was launched in France against the German Army.
(HN, 9/25/98)

1915 Oct 5, Germany issued an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
(HN, 10/5/98)

1915 Oct 12, English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I.
(AP, 10/12/97)

1915 Dec 3, The U.S. expelled German attaches on spy charges.
(HN, 12/3/98)

1915 Dec 31, The Germans torpedoed the British liner Persia without any warning; 335 are dead.
(HN, 12/31/98)

1915 Commercial baking on Sunday was banned in Germany to limit bread sales due to WW I.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)

1915

February

10. Prussians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes.
18. German submarine 'blockade' of British Isles begins.
25. Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.

March

ROSENBERG RETURNS TO ENGLAND.

2. Allied troops land at Kum-Kale, on Asiatic side ofDardanelles.
10. British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle.
22. Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians.

April

22. Poison gas first used by Germans in attack on Canadians at Ypres, Belgium.

May

1. American steamer Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly Isles byGerman submarine; 3 lives lost.
2. British South Africa troops under General Botha capture Otymbingue, German Southwest Africa.
7. Germans capture Libau, Russian Baltic port.
7. Lusitania, Cunard liner, sunk by German submarine off Kinsale Head, Irish coast, with loss of 1152 lives; 102 Americans.
23. Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and begins invasion on a 60 mile front.
31. German Zeppelins bombard suburbs of London.

June

4-6. German aircraft bomb English towns.
15. Allied aircraft bombs Karlsruhe, Baden, in retaliation.
22. Lemberg recaptured by Austrians.
26. Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania.

July

9. German Southwest African surrenders to British South African troops under Gen. Botha.

August

5. Warsaw captured by Germans.
6. Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage with the debarkation of a new force of British troops in Suvla Bay, on the west of the peninsula.
8. Russians defeat German fleet of 9 battleships and 12 cruisers at entrance of Gulf of Riga.
19. Arabic, White Star liner, sunk by submarine off Fastnet; 44 lives lost; 2 Americans.
25. Brest-Litovsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austro-Germans.
28. Italians reach Cima Cista, north-east of Trent.
30. British submarine attacks Constantinople and damages the Galata Bridge.
31. Lutsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austrians.

September

ROSENBERG STARTS EVENING CLASSES.

6. Czar Nicholas of Russia assumes command of Russian armies. Grand Duke Nicholas is transferred to the Caucasus.
25. Allies open offensive on Western front and occupy Lens.

October

5. Franco-British force lands at Salonika and Greek ministry resigns.
9. Belgrade again occupied by Austro-Germans.
12. Edith Cavell, English nurse, shot by Germans for aiding British prisoners to escape from Belgium.
13. London bombarded by Zeppelins; 55 persons killed; 114 injured.
14. Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
15. Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.
17. France at war with Bulgaria.
19. Italy and Russia at war with Bulgaria.
29. Briand becomes premier of France, succeeding Viviani. ROSENBERG ENLISTS. JOINS BANTAM BATTALION OF 12TH SUFFOLK REGIMENT, 40TH DIVISION, AT BURY ST EDMUNDS.

November

5. Nish, Serbian war capital, captured by Bulgarians.
24. Serbian government transferred to Scutari, Albania.

December

4. Henry Ford, with large party of peace advocates, sails for Europe on chartered steamer Oscar II, with the object of ending the war.
13. Serbia in hands of enemy, Allied forces abandoning last positions and retiring across Greek frontier.
15. Gen. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France.
20. Dardanelles expedition ends; British troops begin withdrawal from positions on Suvla Bay and Gallipoli Peninsula.
22. Henry Ford leaves his peace party at Christiania and returns to the United States.

Crisis in the Balkans.

The powder keg exploded.

World goes to war.

Artistic Reactions to WWI

Peace breaks out

Victors try to build a lasting peace.

League of Nations