Timeline October 1915

Events in October 1915 8

• 1865 – 1915 Edith Cavell (1865-1915) Died 12 October 1915, aged 49 British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium. Her death provoked international outrage and became a powerful piece of Allied wartime propaganda.
• 1915 Battle of Loos Britain's first large-scale use of poison gas on the Western Front The Battle of Loos, fought from 25 September to 8 October 1915, was the largest British offensive of the year and marked the first British use of chlorine gas in the war. Poor conditions and command failures produced heavy casualties for minimal territorial gain, contributing to the removal of commander Sir John French.
• 1915 The Battle of Loos Loos, France Britain's first use of poison gas, some of which blew back onto its own troops. Rudyard Kipling's son John was killed here and his body was not identified for eighty years.
• 1915 Central Powers conquer Serbia Austro-German and Bulgarian forces overrun Serbia A combined Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian offensive beginning 6 October 1915 overran Serbian defenses, forcing the Serbian army and government into a harsh winter retreat through Albania. By early December the country was fully occupied, and survivors were evacuated by Allied ships to Corfu.
• 1915 Edith Cavell is executed Brussels, Belgium The British nurse was shot by a German firing squad for helping around 200 Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium. Her last words were that patriotism was not enough.
• 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I Bulgaria joins the Central Powers and invades Serbia Bulgaria declared war on Serbia on 14 October 1915, joining the Central Powers after negotiating territorial promises in Macedonia. The intervention opened a new front that, combined with the Austro-German offensive, overwhelmed Serbian defenses within weeks.
• 1915 Bulgaria joins the Central Powers Sofia, Bulgaria Still resentful over the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria attacked Serbia and helped overrun it within weeks.
• 1915 – 2005 Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Died 10 February 2005, aged 89 Arthur Miller, the American playwright behind "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible", died on 10 February 2005. His plays examined the pressures of American society and morality, and he remained a prominent public intellectual for decades. Miller was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s.