Events on March 18

Date	Type	Event
18 March 1915	Battles & Sieges	(18 March) The Ottomans pushed back a naval attack launched by the Allies on the Dardanelles Straits and secured a massive victory in World War I. With three battleships sunk and the three others damaged, the naval attack was abandoned by the Allied Powers. Plans then began for a land attack in April 1915.