8 April

1915 (Thursday)

 * French attacks in the Woevre district repulsed.
 * Indecisive fighting in the Carpathians.
 * Deportation and massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire begins.
 * German armed merchant cruiser SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich interned at Newport News, United States (see 28 January).
 * Attempted assassination of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
 * Italian Note to Austria, demanding territorial concessions in return for neutrality.