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| 1915 January 24 |
| | | The German battle cruiser Blücher is sunk by the British off the Dogger Bank | |
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| 1915 January 30 |
| | | Two passenger liners are sunk by German U-boats | |
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| 1915 |
| | | February - British and French forces invade and capture the German colony of Cameroon | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty | |
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| 1915 March |
| | | A typhus epidemic sweeps through Serbia, severely weakening the nation's armed forces | |
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| 1915 March 18 |
| | | British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them | |
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| 1915 March 21 |
| | | Two German Zeppelin airships bomb Paris, causing 23 deaths | |
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| 1915 April |
| | | In a secret pact, signed in London, Italy is promised territorial gains if she joins the Allied side | |
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| 1915 April 1 |
| | | The French aviator Roland Garros fires a machine gun through the propeller in his fighter plane, using metal plates to deflect any bullets that hit the propeller | |
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| 1915 April 22 |
| | | The Germans attempt an advance on the western front, launching the second battle of Ypres | |
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| 1915 April 22-3 |
| | | The Germans gain ground at Ypres after the first significant use of chlorine gas | |
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| 1915 April 25 |
| | | British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli | |
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| 1915 May |
| | | Italy revokes the Triple Alliance of 1882 that aligned her with Germany and Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1915 May 7 |
| | | The British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of 1000 civilian lives | |
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| 1915 May 23 |
| | | Italy declares war against Austria-Hungary, but not as yet against Germany | |
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| 1915 May 31 |
| | | A German Zeppelin airship makes the first bombing raid on London | |
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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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| 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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