Armenian genocide 3

Armenian Genocide

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    Armenian Genocide

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Mothers and children are cut down by sword in Sassun's Spaghanak villages by sudden attacks late at night.

  • 7500 Armenians are slain in Sassun by the Turks

  • 12,000 Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army are massacred

  • 21 leaders of the Hnchukyan Party are hanged publicly

  • Deportations begin

  • 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

  • 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