1915

Résumé of main events of 1915.

1 January	HMS Formidable is sunk in the English Channel by German submarine SM U-24; nearly 600 lives lost.
1 January–4 February	Third thrust for Warsaw; Russians hold up enemy on the Bzura-Ravka Rivers; Russian successes in Trans-Caucasi.
1 January–17 April	Russo-Austrian struggle in Galicia and the Carpathians; Russians eventually successful.
2 January	Russian successes on the Bzura and advance in the Bukovina.	Turkish transport Perk-I-Skefket mined and sunk in Bosphorus.
3 January	Turks take and lose Tabriz to the Russians; enemy activity (v. Egypt) in Syria.
14 January–July	Campaign in German South West Africa.
24 January	Battle of the Dogger Bank.
3 February	12,000 Turks attack Suez Canal and are beaten off.
3 February–21 March	Russians, driven from East Prussia, hold up Germans on the Niemen, Bobr and Narev rivers.
18 February	German submarine blockade of Great Britain begins.
19 February–6 April	British naval attacks on the Dardanelles (entrance cleared 26 February; big attack on Narrows fails, 18 August).
March	Fighting (British v. Turks) in Lower Mesopotamia.
8 March–15 March	Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
22 March	Przemyśl surrenders to the Russians.
9 April	British and French military force (120,000 under Generals Sir I. Hamilton and d’Amade) concentrate outside Dardanelles.
April – July	Appalling Armenian massacres (?800,000) by Turkish order.
22 April–24 May	Second battle of Ypres. (British pressed back.)
25 April–28 April	Battle of the landings in Gallipoli (S.W. corner and Anzac Cove).
28 April–3 July	Great Austro-German attack in Galicia The Russians are driven back from the Dunajec to the San, 28 April–12 May;	from the San to Lemberg, 15 May–20 June; fall of Przemyśl, 3 June; of Lemberg, 22 June; Germans held on the Zlota Lipa, 28 June–3 July).
7 May	RMS Lusitania is torpedoed.
15 May–25 May	Battle of Festubert.
May to July	Heavy and intermittent fighting in Gallipoli.
June	British take offensive East of the Suez Canal.
26 June–4 July	Battle of the Argonne.