In January 1915 Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped by pack ice in the Weddell Sea, as he tried to cross Antarctica on foot, and on 21 November it was crushed and sank. His 27 men camped on the ice for five months, then reached Elephant Island in lifeboats. Shackleton and five others sailed 1,300 km in the 7-metre lifeboat James Caird to South Georgia, and crossed its unmapped mountains to reach a whaling station. After three failed attempts he rescued the men on 30 August 1916, and not one died. The wreck was found in 2022 at a depth of 3,008 metres.
Before and after
- from 25 September 1915 to 14 October 1915Battle of Loos
- October 1915Publication of The Metamorphosis
- 17 October 1915Birth of Arthur Miller
- from 21 October 1915 to 30 September 1918Macedonian Front
- from 21 November 1915 to 30 August 1916Shackleton's Endurance is crushed by the ice
- from 22 November 1915 to 25 November 1915Battle of Ctesiphon
- 25 November 1915Birth of Augusto Pinochet
- 12 December 1915Birth of Frank Sinatra
- 19 December 1915Birth of Édith Piaf
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- 29 May 1914Birth of Tenzing Norgay
- from 8 August 1914 to 1 January 1917Expedition Endurance
- 6 January 1919Death of Theodore Roosevelt
- 21 May 1927Lindbergh flies the Atlantic alone
- 9 March 1934Birth of Yuri Gagarin
- 6 March 1937Birth of Valentina Tereshkova
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