page_title: Timeline of modern Armenian history
section_title: World War I and Armenian Genocide (1914–1918)
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of modern Armenian history / World War I and Armenian Genocide (1914–1918)
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture showing Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide. Image taken from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, written by Henry Morgenthau, Sr. and published in 1918. Original description: "THOSE WHO FELL BY THE WAYSIDE. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms---massacre, starvation, exhaustion---destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation" Français&#160;: Photo montrant le corps de plusieurs Arméniens abattus alors que se déroulait le génocide des Arméniens. Photo publiée dans Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, ouvrage rédigé par Henry Morgenthau senior et publié en 1918. Deutsch: Auf diesem Foto schrieb der amerikanische Botschafter Henry Morgenthau senior: „Szenen wie diese waren in den Frühlings- und Sommermonaten 1915 in den armenischen Provinzen der Türkei an der Tagesordnung. Tod in mehreren Formen—Massaker, Verhungern, Erschöpfung—vernichtete den Großteil der Flüchtlinge. Die türkische Politik war die einer Vernichtung unter dem Deckmantel der Deportation“.
context_page_description: 1804: Russo-Persian War begins
  1813 October 24: Treaty of Gulistan, Karabakh becomes part of the Russian Empire
  1815: Lazaryan School opened in Moscow
  1824 October 1: Nersisyan School opened in Tiflis
  1825 December 14: Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg
  1826: Russo-Persian War begins
  1827 October 27: Russians capture Erivan
  1828 February 21: Treaty of Turkmenchay, most of Eastern Armenia becomes part of the Russian Empire
  1828–1829: Over 50,000 Armenians from Ottoman Empire and Iran migrate to Russian Armenia
  1828 October 9: Khachatur Abovian and Friedrich Parrot reach the summit of Mount Ararat for the first time
  1836: Polozhenie decree allows Armenian language schools in the Russian Empire, regulates the Armenian church
  1840: Armenian Oblast disintegrated
  1848 April 14: Khachatur Abovian disappears
  1850: Erivan Governorate established
  1858: Wounds of Armenia published in Tiflis
context_section_description: 1914 June 28: Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia
  1914 July 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, start of the Great War
  1914 August 2: Germany attacks Belgium, declares war on Russia; Armenian congress at Erzurum
  1914 November 1: Bergmann Offensive, the start of World War I in the Caucasus
  1915 January 17: Russians capture Sarikamish
  1915 January 18: Russians capture Ardahan
  1915 March: Zeitun Resistance
  1915 April 24: Hundreds of Armenian intellectuals deported from Constantinople into central Anatolia.
  1915 April–May: Defense of Van (1915)
  1915 May 27: Tehcir Law. The mass deportation of Ottoman Empire's Armenian population begins.
  1915 June: Shabin-Karahisar uprising, Musa Dagh Resistance
  1915 July 26: Russians capture Manzikert
  1915 September–October: Urfa Resistance
  1916 February: Russians capture Erzurum
  1916 April 15: Russians capture Trebizond
  1916 July: Russians capture Erzincan
  1916 August: Russians capture Bitlis
  1917 February 23: Russian Revolution begins, Russian forces start to retreat.
  1917 November 7: Bolshevik rule established in Russia.
  1917 December 5: Armistice of Erzincan between Bolshevik Russian and the Ottoman Empire.
  1918 February: Turks recapture Erzurum
  1918 March: Turks recapture Van
  1918 March 3: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Bolshevik Russia, Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire.
  1918 April 25: Turks captures Kars
  1918 May 26: Ottoman armies stopped at the Battle of Sardarabad.
caption: About 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the Armenian Genocide in 1915–1918.
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