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| 1915 May |
| | | from May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands | |
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| 1915 June |
| | | Dutch aircraft designer Anton Fokker, working for the Germans, vastly improves the Roland Garros technique for firing machine guns through the propellers of fighter planes | |
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| 1915 July |
| | | South African troops capture German South West Africa | |
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| c. 1915 July |
| | | German fighter planes are armed with new machine guns synchronized to fire between the revolving propeller blades | |
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| 1915 July 30 |
| | | The Germans make their first effective use of a new weapon, the flame thrower, in an attack on the British in the second batte of Ypres | |
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| 1915 |
| | | from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon | |
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| 1915 September 18 |
| | | The emperor Nicholas II moves to military HQ to take personal command of the Russian armies | |
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| 1915 September 25 |
| | | The British use chlorine gas for the first time in an attack on Loos, but in places it is blown back over the British lines when the wind changes | |
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| 1915 October 5 |
| | | French and British troops land at Salonika and push north to relieve Serbia | |
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| 1915 October 9 |
| | | Austria-Hungary renews its attack on Serbia, and its troops capture Belgrade | |
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