1915 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia.

1915 in Australia
MonarchyGeorge V
Governor-GeneralRonald Munro-Ferguson
Prime ministerAndrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes
Population4,985,569
ElectionsSouth Australia, Queensland

Incumbents[]

Andrew Fisher
Billy Hughes
  • Monarch – George V
  • Governor-General – Ronald Munro-Ferguson
  • Prime Minister – Andrew Fisher (until 27 October), then Billy Hughes
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Griffith

State premiers[]

  • Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
  • Premier of Queensland – Digby Denham (until 1 June), then Thomas Ryan
  • Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake (until 2 April), 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 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.

Science and technology[]

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

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1915 in Australian literature

Sport[]

  • 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 (died 1989), artist, writer and diarist
  • 2 March – John Wear Burton (died 2010), public servant and diplomat
  • 3 March – Manning Clark (died 1991), historian
  • 6 March – Mary Ward (died 2021), actress
  • 22 March – Charlotte Anderson (died 2002), professor of paediatrics
  • 9 April – Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide)
  • 30 May – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), poet, academic and intelligence officer
  • 31 May – Judith Wright (died 2000), poet
  • 3 June – Jim McClelland (died 1999), senator and government minister
  • 20 June – Dick Reynolds (died 2002), VFL footballer (Essendon)
  • 16 July – David Campbell (died 1979), poet
  • 3 August – Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist
  • 26 October – Lindsay Pryor (died 1998), botanist
  • 2 November – May Campbell (died 1981), field hockey player
  • 25 November – Ron Hamence (died 2010), cricketer
  • 29 November – Bob Cotton (died 2006), senator and government minister
  • 31 December – John Murray (died 2009), politician

Deaths[]

Thomas Playford II
  • 11 January – James Wilkinson, Queensland politician (b. 1854)
  • 11 March – Thomas Alexander Browne, author (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1826)
  • 4 April – Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor, New South Wales politician and pastoralist (b. 1839)
  • 19 April – Thomas Playford II, 17th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1837)[1]
  • 25 April - William Henry Strahan, writer and soldier (b. 1869)
  • 2 June – George Randell, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1830)
  • 25 June – Frederick Manson Bailey, botanist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1827)
  • 28 June – Victor Trumper, cricketer (b. 1877)
  • 18 July – George Marshall-Hall, composer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1862)
  • 2 August – Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)
  • 8 October – E. Phillips Fox, impressionist painter (b. 1865)
  • 29 October – Richard Edwards, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
  • 20 November – Robert Barr Smith, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1824)
  • 4 December – George Richards, New South Wales politician (b. 1865)
  • 21 December – Thomas Sergeant Hall, geologist and biologist (b. 1858)

References[]

  1. ^ John Playford (1988). Geoff Serle (ed.). Playford, Thomas (1837–1915). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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