* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

* Shell Crisis of 1915, which led to the fall of Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberal Party government during World War I.

In 1915 the family moved to New York, as many African-American families did during the Great Migration.

The first Russian examples were all made by Yevgeni Bauer for Khanzhonkov during the First World War, and include Grezy, Schastye vechnoi nochi, and Posle smerti, all from 1915.

The rapid economic growth stimulated by World War I, which had raised the incomes of industrial workers and profits of the employers during 1915 and 1916, collapsed with the February Revolution.

Moseley was shot and killed during the Battle of Gallipoli on 10 August 1915, at the age of 27.

Moseley served as a technical officer in communications during the Battle of Gallipoli, in Turkey, beginning in April 1915, where he was killed in action on 10 August 1915.

* 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.

* Edgar Speyer, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL, forerunner of the London Underground ) from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more.

* 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.

* 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 ; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.

Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.

Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent filmmaking in Hollywood during the early 1910s, leading up to the release of D. W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation.

Brearley applied for a US patent during 1915 only to find that Haynes had already registered a patent.

They were later to defend the strategically important passage against a major Ottoman attack in 1915, during the First World War.

The Mud Hens temporarily relocated to Cleveland during 1914 through 1915, to help the Cleveland Indians counter any territorial threat by the Federal League by ensuring that League Park would have a game every day.

Launching a torpedo in 1915 during World War I

In 1915, during World War I, a large Allied expeditionary force established a base at Thessaloniki for operations against pro-German Bulgaria.

" Bull ", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term " bullshit " has been used as early as 1915 in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II.

Chinese iconoclasm was expressed most clearly and vociferously by Chen Duxiu during the New Culture Movement which occurred between 1915 and 1919.

Such wings were already being developed by several designers, including Hugo Junkers, whose work during 1915 resulted in the pioneering Junkers J 1, the world's first practical all-metal aircraft of any type.

The original 16th-century manuscript was destroyed in 1915 during the Turkish massacres of Assyrian Christians.

Bryce was the first to speak on that subject in The House of Lords, in July 1915, and later, with the assistance of the historian Arnold J. Toynbee, he produced a documentary record of the massacres, published by the British government in 1916 as the Blue Book.

When a propaganda campaign was launched in the UK in 1915 over the massacres of Armenians, Pickthall rose to challenge it and argued that all the blame could not be placed on the Turkish government.

Unfortunately it was lost in the destruction of that library by Turkish troops during the massacres of Christians 1915, without ever being photographed or copied, so is today lost.

He first used the word in print in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation-Analysis of Government-Proposals for Redress ( 1944 ), to define the massacres of 1915 against the Armenians and Assyrians.

In 1915, facing massacres that led to the deaths of up to two-thirds of the Assyrians in southeastern Turkey and northern Iran, about 50, 000 survivors streamed over the border into northern Iraq, which was largely populated by Kurds and Turkomen.

Gaunt, who has studied 150 massacres carried out in the summer of 1915 in Mardin, said that the Committee of Union and Progress's governor for Mardin, Halil Edip, had likely ordered the massacre on 14 June 1915, leaving 150 ethnic Armenians and 120 ethnic Assyrians dead.

A telegram written by Morgenthau to the State Department in 1915 described the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a " campaign of race extermination.

Through his friendship with Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times he also ensured that the massacres continued to receive prominent coverage, with 145 articles in 1915 alone.

The local Syriacs, while very reduced due to the results of the 1915 massacres, hold on to two of the oldest monasteries in the world, Dayro d-Mor Hananyo ( Turkish Deyrülzafaran, English Saffron Monastery ) and Deyrulumur Monastery.

The Russian forces and intelligence officers found evidence of the massacres of Christians by the Kurdish and Turkish radicals in 1915.

On March 23, 2006 in a feuilleton ( opinion ) piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jäckel wrote a book review that approved of Guenter Lewy's thesis in his book The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey about the 1915 Armenian Massacres, that there were massacres, but no genocide of the Armenians.

Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan was growing in urban chapters across the Midwest, particularly since veterans had been returning from the war ; it made its first major appearance in Oklahoma later that year on August 12, 1921, less than three months after the riot.

A rapid pace of change across the country, especially in growing cities, combined with new waves of immigration and migration of rural whites and blacks to cities, all contributed to a volatile social environment and the rise of a second Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) in the South and Midwest after 1915.

For example, the Investment Bankers Association told its members as early as 1915 that they could " ignore " Blue Sky laws by making securities offerings across state lines through the mail.

In the early months of 1915, an enormous typhus outbreak started to wreak havoc across the Kingdom, during which some 150, 000 people are estimated to have died during the worst typhus epidemic in world history.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

A former Natchitoches Parish branch library, operated from the home of Eleanor Walker Bamburg ( 1915 – 2010 ), a librarian for forty years, was located across from the high school and the former store of Alvah Hume Dupree ( 1901 – 1974 ).

Jackman Lumber Company built the Bald Mountain Railroad in 1915 north from Jackman up Heald Stream and across the South Branch Penobscot River into Moose River Plantation.

On February 2, 1915, Lt. Werner Horn, a German army reservist, bombed the international railway bridge crossing the St. Croix River from Vanceboro into Canada in an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage the CPR line across Maine ; it was alleged that the railway was being used to transport war material across the then-neutral United States territory.

Riverview post office was established in 1911, but moved across the river in 1915 and the name changed to Adrian in 1919.

The abandoned Hotel Viggo ( built 1915 ) is located across the highway from the Jim Hogg County Courthouse in Hebbronville.

She began expanding her international operations in 1915, and started opening salons across the world.

Vinyl stickers in the style of blue heritage plaques were put on shop windows across the court, indicating which productions companies were located in each address between 1900 and 1915.

For example, in Chinese, the first line of Li Po's ( called " Rihaku " by Fenollosa's Japanese informants ) poem The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter is a spare, direct juxtaposition of 5 characters that appear in Fenollosa's notes as mistress hair first cover browIn his resulting 1915 Cathay, Pound rendered this in simple English as While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead

She was also a leading figure on Henry Ford's ill-fated Peace Ship expedition of late 1915, steaming across the Atlantic with a team of pacifist campaigners who hoped to give impetus to a negotiated settlement to the First World War.

A second railway, the Canadian Northern ( CNoR ), was built across the northern portion of the park, opening in 1915.

Orville Wright estimated that the Wright Company built approximately 120 airplanes across all of its different models between 1910 and 1915.

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ( the Milwaukee Road ), the last transcontinental line to be built, electrified its lines across the Rocky Mountains and to the Pacific Ocean starting in 1915.

Culpeos are considered beneficial because they are significant predators of the rabbits introduced in 1915 ; such introduced rabbit populations are believed to have allowed culpeos to spread from the Andean foothills across the Patagonian plain.

In 1915, they had been used by the central group of about 6, 000 or 7, 000 Ottoman soldiers who moved across the Sinai Desert to attack the Suez Canal at Ismailia.

In response, the local 102nd Battalion was formed on November 5, 1915, drawing recruits from across northern British Columbia and eventually reaching a total strength of 3, 863.

When Serbia was overrun in 1915 he joined the Serbian Army in its retreat across Albania to return with the victorius Serbian Army when it liberated Belgrade in the final days of the war.

In May 1915 a full-blown controversy was erupting, with the angels being used as proof of the action of divine providence on the side of the Allies in sermons across Britain, and then spreading into newspaper reports published widely across the world.