1915 in Australia

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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

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.^[1]

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.

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)^[2]
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)

^ Myer, Harold (1925). Power Supply and Distribution.
^ 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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