1915 in Australia

none February 2020 February 2012 1915 The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia. 1915 George V Ronald Munro-Ferguson Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes 4,985,569 South Australia, Queensland Incumbents horizontal right center 140 AndrewFisher.jpg Andrew Fisher Billy Hughes 1915.jpg 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 Governor of New South Wales – Gerald Strickland Governor of Queensland – Hamilton Goold-Adams (from 15 March) Governor of South Australia – Henry Galway Governor of Tasmania – William Ellison-Macartney Governor of Victoria – Arthur Stanley Governor of Western Australia – Harry Barron 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. Full date unknown: Zaara Street Power Station is commissioned in Newcastle, New South Wales.Myer, Harold Power Supply and Distribution 1925 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 1915 in Australian 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 – 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 6 April – Thelma McKenzie, cricketer (died 2019)Australian cricket pioneer Norma Johnston dies aged 95 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-cricket-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95/101838650 9 January 2023 ABC News 9 January 2023 9 April – Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide) 24 April – Sam Burston (died 2015), farmer 15 May – Evelyn Owen (died 1949), gun designer 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 9 June – Ken Feltscheer (died 2017), Australian rules footballer 20 June – Dick Reynolds (died 2002), VFL footballer (Essendon) 10 July – Kevin Barrett (died 1984), Australian rules footballer 16 July – David Campbell (died 1979), poet 3 August – Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist 12 October – Tony Rafty (died 2015), caricaturist 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 100px|thumb|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)https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/playford-thomas-8064 Australian Dictionary of Biography Playford, Thomas (1837–1915) John Playford 1988 Geoff Serle 11 Melbourne University Press 3 January 2022 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 1915 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 20th century in Australia