1915 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1915 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal and coalition
[edit] Events
- 1 January - Sinking of the battleship HMS Formidable, off Lyme Regis, Dorset, by a German U-Boat.
- 19 January - German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn for the first time, killing more than 20. [1]
- 24 January - Battle of Dogger Bank: British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser Blücher.[1]
- 1 February - Photographs required in passports for the first time. [1]
- 14 March - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy forced the German light cruiser SMS Dresden to scuttle.
- 14 March - Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution).
- 18 March - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
- 7 May - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
- 17 May - The last purely Liberal government ends when Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.
- 22 May - Quintinshill rail crash in Scotland, 200 killed.
- 16 June - Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
- 6 September - The first prototype tank is tested by the British Army for the first time.
- 12 October - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
[edit] Unknown dates
- William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays."[2]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Births
- 23 January - Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 30 January - John Profumo, cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- 1 February - Sir Stanley Matthews, footballer (d. 2000)
- 4 February - Sir Norman Wisdom, comedian, singer, and actor
- 11 February - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author and soldier
- 19 February - John Freeman, politician
- 9 March - John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, pilot (d. 2001)
- 31 March - Albert Hourani, historian (d. 1993)
- 15 May - Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
- 20 May - Peter Copley, actor
- 24 June - Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer (d. 2001)
- 22 August - Hugh Paddick, actor (d. 2000)
- 28 August - Max Robertson, sports commentator
- 22 September - Arthur Lowe, actor (d. 1982)
- 13 October - Terry Frost, artist (d. 2003)
- 14 November - Martha Tilton, actress
- 16 November - Maurice Oldfield, intelligence chief (d. 1981)
[edit] Deaths
- 14 January - Richard Meux Benson, founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- 15 January - Mary Slessor, Christian missionary (b. 1848)
- 4 March - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
- 15 March - George Llewelyn-Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' who inspired Peter Pan (b. 1893)
- 31 March - Wyndham Halswelle, runner (b. 1882)
- 23 April - Rupert Brooke, poet (b. 1887)
- 26 July - James Murray, lexicographer (b. 1837)
- 12 October - Charles Sorley, poet (b. 1895)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915
