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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).
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Acknowledgements
Various material contemporary with the war have been used to compile The Great War:On This Day and associated index. Data has been gleaned from two main sources: Chronology of the War (1918-1920), and History of the Great War – Principal Events 1914-1918 (1922). The information in these works were deemed correct at the time of their respective publication dates, and may not accurately represent present-day histories, spelling of place names, political, and geographical boundaries. Click here for a full list of sources.