January – British physicist Sir
Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".[1]
Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near
Broken Hill, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the
Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with four civilians.
January 5 –
Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 11,690 feet (3,560 m), carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft.
A Fool There Was premières in the United States, starring
Theda Bara as a femme fatale; she quickly becomes one of early cinema's most sensational stars.
March 10–
13 – WWI:
Battle of Neuve Chapelle – In the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war, British Indian troops overrun German positions in France, but are unable to sustain the advance.
British Royal Navy battleship
HMS Dreadnought (1906) sinks
German submarine U-29 with all hands in the
Pentland Firth off the coast of Scotland by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
March 19 –
Pluto is photographed for the first time, but is not recognised for what it is.
April 5 – Boxer
Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats
Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
July 22 – WWI: The "
Great Retreat" is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (at this time part of the Russian Empire), taking machinery and equipment with them.
July 24 – Steamer
Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
^"The Deportation of the Armenians of Dörtyol", Ciphered telegram from the
Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Empire) to the Province of Adana, BOA. DH. ŞFR, nr. 50/141.
^Haddelsey, Stephen (2008). Ice Captain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 51–52.
ISBN978-0-7509-4348-2.
^Paull, John (2018). "12:The Women Who Tried to Stop the Great War: The International Congress of Women at The Hague 1915". In Campbell, A. H. (ed.).
Global Leadership Initiatives for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pp. 249–266.
Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
^Walker, Christopher J. "The End of Armenian Taron and Baghesh, 1914-1916". Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush. pp. 191–206.
^Simon, Hyacinthe (1991). Mardine la ville héroïque. Jounieh-Lebanon: Maison Naaman pour la culture.
^Einstein, Albert (November 25, 1915).
"Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 844–847.
Archived from the original on July 25, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^Brozović, Dalibor (1999). Hrvatska enciklopedija (in Croatian). Vol. 1. Zagreb, Croatia: Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža". p. 400.
ISBN978-9-53603-629-5.
January – British physicist Sir
Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".[1]
Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near
Broken Hill, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the
Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with four civilians.
January 5 –
Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 11,690 feet (3,560 m), carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft.
A Fool There Was premières in the United States, starring
Theda Bara as a femme fatale; she quickly becomes one of early cinema's most sensational stars.
March 10–
13 – WWI:
Battle of Neuve Chapelle – In the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war, British Indian troops overrun German positions in France, but are unable to sustain the advance.
British Royal Navy battleship
HMS Dreadnought (1906) sinks
German submarine U-29 with all hands in the
Pentland Firth off the coast of Scotland by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
March 19 –
Pluto is photographed for the first time, but is not recognised for what it is.
April 5 – Boxer
Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats
Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
July 22 – WWI: The "
Great Retreat" is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (at this time part of the Russian Empire), taking machinery and equipment with them.
July 24 – Steamer
Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
^"The Deportation of the Armenians of Dörtyol", Ciphered telegram from the
Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Empire) to the Province of Adana, BOA. DH. ŞFR, nr. 50/141.
^Haddelsey, Stephen (2008). Ice Captain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 51–52.
ISBN978-0-7509-4348-2.
^Paull, John (2018). "12:The Women Who Tried to Stop the Great War: The International Congress of Women at The Hague 1915". In Campbell, A. H. (ed.).
Global Leadership Initiatives for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pp. 249–266.
Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
^Walker, Christopher J. "The End of Armenian Taron and Baghesh, 1914-1916". Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush. pp. 191–206.
^Simon, Hyacinthe (1991). Mardine la ville héroïque. Jounieh-Lebanon: Maison Naaman pour la culture.
^Einstein, Albert (November 25, 1915).
"Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 844–847.
Archived from the original on July 25, 2023. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^Brozović, Dalibor (1999). Hrvatska enciklopedija (in Croatian). Vol. 1. Zagreb, Croatia: Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža". p. 400.
ISBN978-9-53603-629-5.