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1915
 
   
US novelist Ernest Poole publishes The Harbor, set on the Brooklyn waterfront      
1915
 
    
Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect       
1915
 
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Woodrow Wilson sends US marines to take control in Haiti after a spate of political assassinations   See in Google maps   
1915
 
     
Kasimir Malevich exhibits his painting Black Square in Petrograd, in the final Futurist exhibition        
1915
 
     
Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice        
1915
 
    
The nearest star to earth, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri 4.22 light years away, is discovered by Robert Innes, Scottish director of the Johannesburg Observatory       
1915
 
  
Typhoid-carrier Mary Mallon is detained in New York after leaving a trail of destruction     
c. 1915
 
   
The Irish painter Jack Yeats develops a romantic Expressionist style, with a new interest in Celtic myth      
1915
 
    
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out       
c. 1915
 
   
The inflationary pressures of world war force nations to abandon the established gold standard      
1915
 
    
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret develops Maison Domino, a system of low-cost housing with reinforced concrete columns and precast floors       
1915
 
    
D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work       
1915
 
    
The Russian poet and dramatist Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes his first major long poem, A Cloud in Trousers       
1915
 
    
Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology       
1915
 
    
Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps       
1915
 
    
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece       
1915
 
   
William Joseph Simmons, a suspended Methodist preacher in Georgia, wins a big racist following in the south with his revival of the defunct Ku Klux Klan      
1915
 
   
Einstein submits a paper, The field equations of gravitation, containing the sums required to explain the general theory of relativity      
1915
 
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Petrograd buzzes with rumours about Rasputin's dissolute life, including salacious hints that he is the lover of the empress Alexandra       
1915  January
 
    
Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea       
1915  January
 
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Germans make an experimental but ineffective use of chlorine gas against the Russians in Poland      
1915  January 19
 
    
A Zeppelin airship makes a night-time bombing raid on the English port of Great Yarmouth