18 March

1915 (Thursday)

 * Violent indecisive fighting between Four-de-Paris and Bolante.
 * Russians occupy Memel, East Prussia (see 21 March and 17 February).
 * Continued Austrian attacks repulsed in the Carpathians and Bukovina.
 * Dardanelles: Allied Naval attack on the Narrows; two forts destroyed (see 19 February).
 * HMS Ocean, HMS Irresistible, and the French warship Bouvet sunk; French warship Gaulois is damaged.
 * Romania calls up seven classes (1909-1915).
 * General Sir John Nixon appointed Cormmander-in-Chief British Forces in Mesopotamia (see 9 April).
 * British Government conclude agreement with American cotton interests that cotton should be contraband.