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| 1915 October 12 |
| | | The English nurse Edith Cavell is court-martialled and executed by German forces in Belgium | |
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| 1915 October 14 |
| | | Bulgaria, hoping to gain territory in disputed Macedonia, declares war on Serbia | |
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| 1915 October |
| | | The Serbian army flees, abandoning Serbia to Austrian and Bulgarian invaders | |
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| 1915 November 22 |
| | | A British and Indian force is defeated by the Turks at Ctesiphon, on the bank of the Tigris | |
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| 1915 December |
| | | German armies make sufficient advances to drive the Russians out of Poland | |
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| 1915 December |
| | | Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign | |
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| 1915 |
| | | from December - the 225-horsepower Eagle, the first of many Rolls-Royce aero-engines, is used to power British bombers | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Wartime income tax soars in Britain to an unprecedented 30% | |
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| 1916 |
| | | New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York | |
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