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Events from the year 1915 in the United Kingdom.
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- 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.[1]
- 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.
- 31 May - Zeppelins raid London for the first time.[2]
- 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.
- 11 September - first Women's Institute meeting held in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales.[1]
- 21 September - Cecil Chubb acquires Stonehenge at an auction for £6600.[1]
- 12 October - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.[1]
- 20 October - Women recruited as bus and tram conductors.[2]
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[edit] Births
- 23 January - Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
- 30 January - John Profumo, cabinet minister (died 2006)
- 1 February - Sir Stanley Matthews, footballer (died 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 (died 2001)
- 31 March - Albert Hourani, historian (died 1993)
- 15 May - Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (died 2006)
- 20 May - Peter Copley, actor
- June 22 - Duncan Clark, hammer thrower
- 24 June - Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer (died 2001)
- 22 August - Hugh Paddick, actor (died 2000)
- 28 August - Max Robertson, sports commentator
- 22 September - Arthur Lowe, actor (died 1982)
- 13 October - Terry Frost, artist (died 2003)
- 16 November - Maurice Oldfield, intelligence chief (died 1981)
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1915 in the United Kingdom: 
England | 
Scotland
