9 April

1915 (Friday)

• French completes the capture of Les Éparges.
• Germans bombard Reims.
• Indecisive fighting on the Meuse.
• Russians make progress near Suvalki.
• Continued indecisive fighting in the Carpathians.
• Greece: M. Venizelos temporarily retires from public life.
• General Sir John Nixon relieves General Sir Arthur Barrett as Commander-in-Chief Indian Expeditionary Force "D" Mesopotamia (see 13 November 1914, 18 March 1915, and 19 January 1916).

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.