Editing 1915 (section)

=== January ===
{{main|January 1915}}
*[[January]] – British physicist Sir [[Joseph Larmor]] publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".<ref>''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'' '''75''':205–10.</ref>
*[[January 1]]
** WWI: British [[Royal Navy]] battleship [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']] is sunk off [[Lyme Regis]], [[Dorset]], England, by an [[Imperial German Navy]] [[U-boat]], with the loss of 547 crew.
**WWI: [[Battle of Broken Hill]]: A train ambush near [[Broken Hill]], Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the [[Ottoman Empire]]) who are killed, together with four civilians.
* [[January 5]] – [[Joseph E. Carberry]] sets an altitude record of {{convert|11,690|ft|m}}, carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft.
* [[January 12]]
** The [[United States House of Representatives]] rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
** ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]'' premières in the United States, starring [[Theda Bara]] as a ''[[femme fatale]]''; she quickly becomes one of early cinema's most sensational stars.
* [[January 17]] – WWI: Caucasus Campaign – [[Battle of Sarikamish]]: Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey.
* [[January 18]] – [[Twenty-One Demands]] from [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] to [[Republic of China (1912–49)|China]] are made.
* [[January 19]]
** [[Georges Claude]] patents the [[neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising.
** WWI: German [[Zeppelin]]s bomb the coastal towns of [[Great Yarmouth]] and [[King's Lynn]] in England for the first time, killing more than 20.
* [[January 21]] – [[Kiwanis]] is founded in [[Detroit]], Michigan, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers.
* [[January 23]] – [[Chilembwe uprising]]: [[Baptist]] minister [[John Chilembwe]] initiates an ultimately unsuccessful uprising against British colonial rule in [[Nyasaland]] (modern-day [[Malawi]]).
* [[January 24]] – WWI: [[Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)|Battle of Dogger Bank]] – The [[British Grand Fleet]] defeats the [[Imperial German Navy|German High Seas Fleet]], sinking the armoured cruiser {{SMS|Blücher}}.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – The first United States coast-to-coast [[Long-distance calling|long-distance telephone call]] is facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by [[Alexander Graham Bell]] in New York City and his former assistant [[Thomas A. Watson]], in San Francisco, California.
* [[January 26]]
** WWI: The [[Ottoman Army]] begins the [[Raid on the Suez Canal]].
** The [[Rocky Mountain National Park]] is established by an act of the [[United States Congress]].
* [[January 27]] – WWI: French military casualties begin arriving at the [[Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois]], established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
* [[January 28]] – An act of the [[United States Congress]] designates the [[United States Coast Guard]], began in [[1790]], as a military branch.
* [[January 31]] – WWI: [[Battle of Bolimów]] – [[German Empire|Germany]]'s first large-scale use of [[Chemical weapons in World War I|poison gas]] as a weapon occurs, when 18,000 [[artillery]] shells containing liquid [[xylyl bromide]] [[tear gas]] are fired on the [[Imperial Russian Army]], on the [[Rawka River]] west of [[Warsaw]]; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.<ref>{{cite web|last=Heller|first=Charles E.|url=http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/resources/csi/Heller/HELLER.asp|title=Chemical Warfare in World War I: The American Experience, 1917–1918|publisher=Combat Studies Institute|series=Leaveanworth Papers, 10|access-date=August 24, 2012|date=September 1984|archive-date=April 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422083826/http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/resources/csi/Heller/HELLER.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Seal of the U.S. Coast Guard.svg|thumb|120px|right|[[January 28]]: [[United States Coast Guard]] military branch]]