Over the next few years, Yuan proceeded to abolish the national and provincial assemblies, and declared himself emperor in late 1915.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

Foreign powers came to recognize Yuan's power as well: when Japan came to China with 21 demands, it was Yuan that submitted to them, on 25 May 1915.

In 20 November 1915, Yuan held a specially convened " Representative Assembly " which voted unanimously in favor of having Yuan become emperor.

On 12 December 1915, Yuan agreed to become the next emperor and proclaimed himself Emperor of the Chinese Empire ( 中華帝國大皇帝 ) under the era name of Hongxian ( 洪憲 ; i. e. Constitutional Abundance ) beginning 1 January 1916.

In 1915 Yuan Shikai proclaimed the Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ) with himself as Emperor of China.

Yuan Shikai ejected the Kuomintang party from China's elected assemblies in 1913, dissolved parliament in 1914, declared himself emperor in 1915, and died in 1916.

* Yuan Shikai of China ( 1915 ) – became Emperor, rescinded throne, died in office 1916.

File: YuanShika Colour. jpg | Yuan Shikai, President for Life of China ( 1915 – 1916 )

General Yuan Shikai, then provisional president, unsuccessfully tried to make himself a monarch in 1915.

In 1915 Chinese President Yuan Shikai declared a restoration of the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the new Emperor.

Yuan Shikai as the Emperor of the Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ).

On 12 December 1915 Yuan, supported by his son Yuan Keding, declared himself emperor of a new Empire of China.

Feng Yuxiang, made Baron of the Third Rank by Yuan Shikai who proclaimed himself Emperor in 1915, just five years after Yuan Shikai had imprisoned him as a rebel and stripped his military rank ; sent to fight for Yuan Shikai with his new noble title and a new military rank, Feng Yuxiang communicated with the enemy and was stripped of military rank a second time

This list was presented to Yuan Shikai on January 18, 1915, with warnings of dire consequences if China were to reject.

* Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ), the short-lived dynasty proclaimed by Yuan Shikai

When Yuan Shikai ( 袁世凱 ) attempted to restore the monarchy, Chang fled to Japan and finished his military training in 1915.

As governor, Yuan Shikai ( shown as Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ) | Emperor of China in 1916 ) drafted the charter for Shandong College.

In 1915, when it became clear that Yuan intended to declare himself emperor, Zhang was one of the few officials who supported Yuan.

In May 1915, Carranza had proclaimed himself the head of what he termed a " Preconstitutional Regime " that would govern Mexico until a constitutional convention could be held.

However he supported conscription again in 1915, and proclaimed it should be implemented along with the " conscription of wealth ".

By 1922, Preston had been formally recognised as a Borough, two months later it had become a Town, and finally by 1915, Preston had been proclaimed a City.

Sam was proclaimed president when his predecessor, Joseph Davilmar Théodore, was forced to resign on 25 February 1915, when he was unable to pay the militiamen ( called " Cacos ") who had helped him overthrow Zamor.

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the dinosaur beds as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915.

In 1915, Aater the political and administrative division restructuring of the Unitarian Colombian State, Valledupar was proclaimed the municipality of the Valledupar Province, part of the Federal State of Magdalena during the United States of Colombia era.

The New York Times proclaimed in June 1915: " Mr. Frieseke, whose accomplished work is well known to New Yorkers, says the last word in the style that was modern before the Modernists came along.

In 1915, the post office opened, and a year later, the La Sarre Township was proclaimed, named after the La Sarre Regiment that was recognized for its part in the Battle of Carillon and the capture of Fort Oswego.

When Giulio died unexpectedly of a throat abscess in 1915, Enrico was distraught, and immersed himself in scientific study to distract himself.

Einstein himself had shown in 1915 how his theory explained the anomalous perihelion advance of the planet Mercury without any arbitrary parameters (" fudge factors ").

Robert himself published the first four editions before his death in 1923, the last being the thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition published as Robert's Rules of Order Revised in May 1915.

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy ( German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915 ), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

Liddell Hart speculated that this was why he allowed himself to be persuaded by Joffre to order the attack at Loos in September 1915, an attack on ground not favoured by French or Haig ( then commanding British First Army ).

Fred Norway himself died of wounds in France in 1915.

Nicholas decides to command the troops himself in 1915 and leaves for the front, taking over from his much more experienced cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas.

Hyde himself, however, felt uncomfortable at the growing politicisation of his movement ( which had been infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, just like the Irish Volunteers and the Gaelic Athletic Association ) and resigned the presidency in 1915 ; he was replaced reluctantly by co-Founder Eoin MacNeill.

Einstein himself at first viewed Minkowski's treatment as a mere mathematical trick, before eventually realizing that a geometrical view of space-time would be necessary in order to complete his own later work in general relativity ( 1915 ).

His son, Gilbert Augustin Thierry ( 1843 – 1915 ), who began a literary career by articles on Les Révolutions d ' Angleterre ( 1864 ) and some Essais d ' histoire religieuse ( 1867 ), afterwards confined himself to the writing of novels.

In this last category, Schlick distinguished himself by publishing a paper in 1915 about Einstein's special theory of relativity, a topic only ten years old.

From 1908 until 1915 while living in Arden, Delaware, Nearing himself taught economics and sociology at the Wharton School and Swarthmore College, authoring a stream of books on the economics and social problems.

In further contributions, Goldenweiser in 1915 – 16 and 1918 criticized Lang, Frazer, and Durkheim and insisted that totemism had nothing to do with religion ; he held instead that man in no way viewed his totem as superior to himself or as a deified being but viewed it as his friend and equal.

The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 ) is an early thriller by John Buchan, in which an innocent man becomes the prime suspect in a murder case and finds himself on the run from both the police and enemy spies.

In the summer of 1915 the Tsar himself took personal command, with Mikhail Alekseyev as his chief of staff.

In 1915 Isham Jones moved to Chicago, Illinois, which remained his home base until 1932, when he reestablished himself in New York City.