1915 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia.
Population4,985,569
| 1915 in Australia | |
|---|---|
| Monarch | George V |
| Governor-General | Ronald Munro-Ferguson |
| Prime minister | Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes |
| Population | 4,985,569 |
| Elections | South Australia, Queensland |
Incumbents
- Monarch â George V
- Governor-General â Ronald Munro-Ferguson
- Prime Minister â Andrew Fisher (until 27 October), then Billy Hughes
- Chief Justice â Samuel Griffith
State premiers
- Premier of New South Wales â William Holman
- Premier of Queensland â Digby Denham (until 1 June), then Thomas Ryan
- Premier of South Australia â Archibald Peake (until 2 April), then Crawford Vaughan
- Premier of Tasmania â John Earle
- Premier of Victoria â Alexander Peacock
- Premier of Western Australia â John Scaddan
State governors
Events
- 25 April â The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- 30 April â Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
- 6 June â The BHP Newcastle Steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
- 19 July â Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during World War I.
- 9 August â Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
- 24 August â The town of Holbrook was renamed from Germanton.
- 10 October â Twenty six men left Gilgandra on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits.
- 27 October â Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
- 20 December â Completion of Anzac evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
- Full date unknown:
- Zaara Street Power Station is commissioned in Newcastle, New South Wales.[1]
Science and technology
- 10 December â Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Arts and literature
Sport
- Patrobas wins the Melbourne Cup
- 1914/15 the Sheffield Shield was won by Victoria; after this season it was not contested due to the war.
- The 1915 NSWRFL Premiership is won by Balmain.
Births
- 6 February â Donald Friend (died 1989), artist, writer and diarist
- 2 March â John Wear Burton (died 2010), public servant and diplomat
- 3 March â Manning Clark (died 1991), historian
- 6 March â Mary Ward (died 2021), actress
- 22 March â Charlotte Anderson (died 2002), professor of paediatrics
- 9 April â Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide)
- 30 May â Michael Thwaites (died 2005), poet, academic and intelligence officer
- 31 May â Judith Wright (died 2000), poet
- 3 June â Jim McClelland (died 1999), senator and government minister
- 20 June â Dick Reynolds (died 2002), VFL footballer (Essendon)
- 16 July â David Campbell (died 1979), poet
- 3 August â Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist
- 26 October â Lindsay Pryor (died 1998), botanist
- 2 November â May Campbell (died 1981), field hockey player
- 25 November â Ron Hamence (died 2010), cricketer
- 29 November â Bob Cotton (died 2006), senator and government minister
- 31 December â John Murray (died 2009), politician
Deaths
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- 11 January â James Wilkinson, Queensland politician (b. 1854)
- 11 March â Thomas Alexander Browne, author (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1826)
- 4 April â Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor, New South Wales politician and pastoralist (b. 1839)
- 19 April â Thomas Playford II, 17th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1837)[2]
- 25 April - William Henry Strahan, writer and soldier (b. 1869)
- 2 June â George Randell, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1830)
- 25 June â Frederick Manson Bailey, botanist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1827)
- 28 June â Victor Trumper, cricketer (b. 1877)
- 18 July â George Marshall-Hall, composer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1862)
- 2 August â Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)
- 8 October â E. Phillips Fox, impressionist painter (b. 1865)
- 29 October â Richard Edwards, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
- 20 November â Robert Barr Smith, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1824)
- 4 December â George Richards, New South Wales politician (b. 1865)
- 21 December â Thomas Sergeant Hall, geologist and biologist (b. 1858)