16 April

1915 (Friday)

 * Germans repulsed at Notre Dame de Lorette.
 * French airships bomb Strassburg and other German towns.
 * Zeppelin raid on East Anglia: aeroplane bombs Faversham and Sittingbourne. There are no recorded civilian casualties.
 * Russians capture two heights south-west of Rosztoki Pass (Carpathians).
 * Allied fleets bombard Enos.
 * Albanian rebels bombard Durazzo.
 * Turk regular forces reach and occupy Urumia, north-west Persia (see 2 January and 24 May).
 * French cruiser bombards El Arish.
 * British transport Manitou sunk by Turkish torpedo-boat destroyer. 51 lost.
 * British apology to Chile for sinking of SMS Dresden in Chilean waters published.
 * Austria declares that the Italian proposals are in the main unacceptable.
 * Sinking of Katwyk by German submarine causes excitement in Holland.
 * General Tighe succeeds General Wapshare in command of British Forces in East Africa (see 4 December 1914 and 19 February 1916).