Showing posts with label Imperial Russian Navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperial Russian Navy. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Monday, March 1, 1915. Locusts.

A locust infestation broke out in Palestine which would continue until October.

Ick.

The Imperial Russian Navy commenced seaplane carrier raids against the Bosporus and the Ottoman Black Sea coast, the first carrier campaign in history.

Last edition:

Sunday, February 28, 1915. Trench Raid.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Wednesday, February 17, 1915. Putting a mutiny down.

French, Japanese and Russian sailors and marines landed in Singapore to help the British quell a rebellion by troops of the Indian Army.

Two German Zeppelins went down in Denmark.

Last edition:

Monday, February 15, 1915. The Singapore Mutiny.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Tuesday, February 2, 1915. Reinforcements.

A company of New Zealand infantry was sent to reinforce Gurkha troops at Lake Timsah, Egypt.  

Boer rebels surrendered to the Union of South Africa.

Werner Horn detonated a suitcase filled with dynamite on the Canadian side of the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge, causing minor damage.

The Imperial Russian seaplane carrier Orlitza was commissioned.

Last edition:

Monday, February 1, 1915. Suez Canal Besieged.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Monday, January 25, 1915. The telephone menace spreads.

Lightly armed rebels following John Chilembwe were defeated by the Kings African Rifles.

The Ottomans advanced on Qantara on the Sinai.

Alexander Graham Bell, in New York City, called Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, in the first US long distance telephone call.

The German Navy sustained its first Zeppelin loss when an ice up airship went down over the Baltic after bombing Libau, Russia.  The Imperial Russian Navy captured the crew.

The United States Supreme Court determined a pardon is only valid if the person it is the subject of accepts it.

Last edition:

Sunday, January 24, 1915. The Battle of Dogger Bank.