page_title: January 1915
section_title: January 18, 1915 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1915 / January 18, 1915 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: a Japanese man 加藤高明 (Takaaki Kato)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in January 1915:
context_section_description: Prime Minister of Japan Ōkuma Shigenobu and Foreign Minister Katō Takaaki drafted the initial list Twenty-One Demands which called upon Japan aggressively expanding its control of key ports, railways, mines and other resources and settlements in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and other Chinese provinces.
  Battle of Ardahan — Russian defenders successful repelled an attacking Ottoman force after 17 days of siege on Ardahan, a border city between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire.
  Battle of Jassin — German colonial forces attacked a city occupied by the British Indian Army on the border between British East Africa and German East Africa.
  British submarine HMS E10 was lost in the North Sea.
  The British Army established the 190th Brigade.
  Greek naval cruiser Antinavarhos Kountoriotis was launched by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, but the Royal Navy purchased it and renamed it Birkenhead where it would serve in the Battle of Jutland the following year.
  The ship Endurance set course to the south towards Vahsel Bay after the weather broke. The ship only gained 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) before it was stopped altogether by the ice. The ship was at 76°34′S 31°30′W where it would remain trapped in ice for months.
  Born: Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain (d. 2012); Syl Apps, Canadian hockey player and politician, played center for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1975, in Paris, Ontario (d. 1998); Kaúlza de Arriaga, Portuguese military officer, commander of Portuguese forces during the Mozambican War of Independence, in Lisbon (d. 2004)
  Died: Anatoly Stessel, Russian army officer, head officer of the Russian forces during the Japanese assault on Shuishiying during the Russo-Japanese War (b. 1848)
caption: Foreign Minister Katō Takaaki
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