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Period: to
Armenian Genocide
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Armenian market district at Van is destroyed by fire
The Armenians lost property, goods, and businesses -
The word "Armenia" is forbidden
The Turks forbid the word "Armenia" in official documents -
Armenians Rebel
Armenians rebel against oppressive Turkish taxes -
All Armenian periodicals and magazines are discounted
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Sultan Abdul Hamid II, suspends the Armenian National Constitution
also discontinues the national parliament in Constantinople -
10,000 Armenians are killed
74 Armenian villages are destroyed in Sassun. -
Almost the whole Armenian population in Marzvan killed
around 700 people, are killed by the Turks. -
160 villages around the city of Van are robbed and pillaged.
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Mothers and children are cut down by sword in Sassun's Spaghanak villages by sudden attacks late at night.
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7500 Armenians are slain in Sassun by the Turks
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12,000 Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army are massacred
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21 leaders of the Hnchukyan Party are hanged publicly
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Deportations begin
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The United States Senate votes
Votes to ask the President of the United States of America to set a special day when citizens of this country can help Armenians with financial support -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed
signed between Russia and Turkey -
Woodrow Wilson, asks the Congress to give him the right to accept a mandate over Armenia and send troops there
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The Treaty of Sevres, signed
signed by Turkey, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Armenia, Belgium, Greece, Lebanon, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbian-Croatian-Slovenic Republic and Czechoslovakia -
Turkey adopts a law which prohibits the return of Armenians