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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915:

1 Events

January

• January 19 - First Zeppelin raid on the UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly by the German NavyThe German Navy has had several names depending on the political structure of Germany at the time: Deutsche Marine (German Navy) ( 1848 1852) Norddeutsche Bundesmarine (Northern German Federal Navy) ( 1866- 1871) Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) ( 1872-.

February

• February 15February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 319 days remaining (320 in leap years). Events 1637 Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. 1764 The American city of St. Louis is established. 1805 Harmony Society officially - RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Withn Sikorsky Ilya MurometsThe Sikorsky Ilya Muromets in Russian) was the first mass produced bomber aircraft in the world, a massive four-engined biplane that could penetrate deep into the enemy territory and drop a significant load of bombs. It was named after a Russian mythical bombers attack the Vistula-Dobrzhani area of PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t

March

• March 7March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining. Events 1799 Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1848 The Great - the first BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly tactical bombing raids made in support of ground troops made in Menin an Courtai .

April

• April 1April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. Events 527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1789 In New York City, the United Stat - French pilot Lt Roland Garros scores the first kill using a non- synchronised machine gun when he shoots down an Albatros observation plane from his Morane Saulnier Type L .
• April 1 - French ace Jean Navarre , with an observer Lt. Robert, score the first kill.
• April 18 - Roland Garros is shot down and taken captive.
• April 26 - 2nd Lt William Rhodes-Moorhouse is the first airman to receive the Victoria Cross (posthumous).

May

• May 26 - Oberleutnant Kästner and Lt Georg Langhoff score the first German air-to-air victory of World War I.
• May 31 - First Zeppelin raid on London, made by LZ 38 . Seven people killed, fourteen wounded.

June

• June 6 - LZ 37 becomes the first Zeppelin destroyed in air-to-air combat when it is bombed by Flt Sub-Lt Reginald Warneford , RNAS.

July

• July 6 - Lt Oswald Bölcke claims his first victory, a Blériot Parasol , while flying an Albatros C.I two-seater with Lt von Wühlisch as the observer & gunner.
• July 25 - Captain Lanoe Hawker of the RFC wins first Victoria Cross for aerial combat, over France.

August

• August 1 - Lt Max Immelmann shoots down his first aircraft, beginning his career as an ace and the period that will become known as the " Fokker scourge"
• August 12 - Flt Cdr Charles Edmonds becomes the first pilot to attack a ship with an air-launched torpedo. He is flying a Short Type 184 from HMS Ben-my-Chree. His target is a Turkish supply ship.
• August 19 - Lt Oswald Bölcke shoots down his first aircraft flying a Fokker E.I fitted with interrupter gear.
• August 20 - The first sustained aerial bombing offensive is made by Italian Caproni Ca.2s against Austria-Hungary.
• August 31 - the first French ace Adolphe Pegoud is killed in combat. He scored 6 victories.

November

• November 3 - Flt Sub-Lt Fowler makes the first take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout C from HMS Vindex .
• November 6 - A Curtiss AB-2 piloted by Lt Cdr Henry Mustin is catapulted from the deck of USS North Carolina while the ship is underway.

December