1915 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia.

Incumbents

Monarch – George V
Governor-General – Ronald Munro-Ferguson
Prime Minister – Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes
Chief Justice – Samuel Griffith

State premiers

Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
Premier of Queensland – Digby Denham, then Thomas Ryan
Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake, then Crawford Vaughan
Premier of Tasmania – John Earle
Premier of Victoria – Alexander Peacock
Premier of Western Australia – John Scaddan

State governors

Events

25 April – The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
30 April – Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
6 June – The BHP Newcastle Steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
19 July – Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during World War I.
9 August – Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
24 August – The town of Holbrook was renamed from Germanton.
10 October – 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 – Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
20 December – Completion of Anzac evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
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*Zaara Street Power Station is commissioned in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Science and technology

10 December – Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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 – Donald Friend, artist, writer and diarist
2 March – John Wear Burton, public servant and diplomat
3 March – Manning Clark, historian
6 March – Mary Ward, actress
22 March – Charlotte Anderson, professor of paediatrics
9 April – Bob Quinn, SANFL footballer
30 May – Michael Thwaites, poet, academic and intelligence officer
31 May – Judith Wright, poet
3 June – Jim McClelland, senator and government minister
20 June – Dick Reynolds, VFL footballer
16 July – David Campbell, poet
3 August – Arthur John Birch, organic chemist
26 October – Lindsay Pryor, botanist
2 November – May Campbell, field hockey player
25 November – Ron Hamence, cricketer
29 November – Bob Cotton, senator and government minister
31 December – John Murray, politician

Deaths

11 January – James Wilkinson, Queensland politician
11 March – Thomas Alexander Browne, author
4 April – Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor, New South Wales politician and pastoralist
19 April – Thomas Playford II, 17th Premier of South Australia
25 April - William Henry Strahan, writer and soldier
2 June – George Randell, Western Australian politician
25 June – Frederick Manson Bailey, botanist
28 June – Victor Trumper, cricketer
18 July – George Marshall-Hall, composer and poet
2 August – Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia
8 October – E. Phillips Fox, impressionist painter
29 October – Richard Edwards, Queensland politician
20 November – Robert Barr Smith, businessman and philanthropist
4 December – George Richards, New South Wales politician
21 December – Thomas Sergeant Hall, geologist and biologist