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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1915 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1915
MCMXV
Ab urbe condita2668
Armenian calendar1364
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԴ
Assyrian calendar6665
Baháʼí calendar71–72
Balinese saka calendar1836–1837
Bengali calendar1322
Berber calendar2865
British Regnal yearGeo. 5 – 6 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2459
Burmese calendar1277
Byzantine calendar7423–7424
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4612 or 4405
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4613 or 4406
Coptic calendar1631–1632
Discordian calendar3081
Ethiopian calendar1907–1908
Hebrew calendar5675–5676
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1971–1972
 - Shaka Samvat1836–1837
 - Kali Yuga5015–5016
Holocene calendar11915
Igbo calendar915–916
Iranian calendar1293–1294
Islamic calendar1333–1334
Japanese calendarTaishō 4
(大正4年)
Javanese calendar1845–1846
Juche calendar4
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4248
Minguo calendarROC 4
民國4年
Nanakshahi calendar447
Thai solar calendar2457–2458
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
2041 or 1660 or 888
    — to —
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2042 or 1661 or 889

1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.

January 1: HMS Formidable, sunk by a German U-boat.

January

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January 28: United States Coast Guard military branch

February

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March

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March 14: WWI: SMS Dresden, forced to scuttle by the Royal Navy.

April

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May 7: WWI: RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat.

May

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June

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July

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August

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August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston hurricane.

September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Fernando Lamas
Santiago Carrillo
Joachim Peiper

February

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Robert Hofstadter
Teoctist Arăpașu
Tikka Khan of the Pakistan Army, known as the Victor of the Rann of Kutch
Lorne Greene
Ann Sheridan
Paul Tibbets

March

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László Csatáry
Jacques Chaban-Delmas

April

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Piet de Jong
Billie Holiday
Harry Morgan
Anthony Quinn

May

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Orson Welles
Paul Samuelson
Mario Monicelli

June

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David Rockefeller
Mariano Rumor

July

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Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

August

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Ingrid Bergman
Princess Lilian

September

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Franz Josef Strauss

October

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Arthur Miller
Yitzhak Shamir

November

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Sargent Shriver

December

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Frank Sinatra
Curd Juergens

Deaths

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January

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Wyndham Halswelle

February

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March

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Friedrich Loeffler

April

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May

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June

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July

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Porfirio Diaz
Paul Ehrlich
Alois Alzheimer
Charles Tupper

August

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September

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October

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November

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Booker T. Washington

December

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Nobel Prizes

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Notes

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Further reading

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  • Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914–1918 (1972) pp 43–108.

Primary sources and year books

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  • New International Year Book 1915, Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 791pp
  • Hazell's Annual for 1916 (1916), worldwide events of 1915; 640pp online; worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain
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