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| 1915 |
| | | Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard | |
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| 1915 |
| | | The Corning Glass Company launches Pyrex, a new range of heat-resistant kitchen ware made from borosilicate glass | |
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| 1915 |
| | | D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Thomas Edison invents a machine to record telephone conversations, calling it the telescribe | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| 1915 |
| | | American campaigner for birth control Margaret Sanger publishes a controversial pamphlet, Family Limitation | |
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