Armenian Genocide

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  • 100

    Armenian empire established

    Approx. date
  • 300

    Armenia becomes first nation to adopt Christianity

    Approx. date
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Turks invade Anatolia

    Approx. date
  • Jan 1, 1323

    Osman's death

  • Jan 1, 1375

    The last Armenian kingdom is overrun by the Turks

  • Jan 1, 1473

    Osman's dream is communicated, justifying cruelty and a sense of manifest destiny

    (Approx. date)

  • Ethnic Armenia is divided between Turkey and Russia

    Approx. date

  • Sultan Abdul Hamid II bans books and schools which mention Armenia

    Approx. date

  • 2.5 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire

  • Russia liberate several Armenian provinces during Russo-Turkish War

    1877-1878

  • Denial of Armenian Massacres by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II

    1894-1895

  • Early Massacres under the Sultan Abdul Hamid II totaling roughly 500,000

    1894-1896

  • Turks burn 2,500 Armenian women and children alive inside church

  • Words 'Armenia,' and 'liberty' censored in empire

  • Young Turks describe the Armenians as enemies 'to be dealt with'

    1906-1907

  • Young Turks grab control of gov't

  • Armenians are only significant Christian minority

  • CUP bans minority associations and languages

    Approx. date

  • German help modernizes Turkish army

    Approx. date

  • Chief Sunni Muslim leaders declares jihad

  • Two million Armenians killed

    1915-1918

  • Criminals are recruited to kill Armenians

    Approx. date 1915-1916

  • All Armenian men in Ottoman army are thrown into labor and massacred

  • CUP murders several governors who refuse to kill Armenians

  • CUP forcibly removes Armenians from eastern Anatolia in death marches

    June 1915- September 1915

  • Young Turk armies invade Russian Armenia, killing the survivors of the genocide

    Approx. date

  • Opposing Czarist armies collapse allowing for revival of Pan-Turanism

    1917-1918

  • Young Turk regime ends with WWI

  • Turkish minister of interior declares 800,000 Armenians died in the massacres

  • Denial spreads in US

    1920-1930

  • Gov't of Turkey censors artistic expression within the US

  • UN Genocide Convention defines genocide based on the Armenian massacres

  • Turks pay college professors at Princeton, etc. to deny Armenian Genocide

    1950-1990

  • Armenians publicly commemorate the fiftieth anniversary

  • Turkish organizations hand out pamphlets denying Armenian Genocide in Times Square

    Approx. date

  • Turkish gov't pressures press not to use the word 'genocide'

    1970-1980

  • Bob Dole proses bill to commemorate 75th anniversary. Robert Byrd is enlisted by Turkish gov't.

  • Turkey threatens US gov't effectively censoring an attempt to commemorate the genocide