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Timeline of modern Armenian history

Ottoman rule and transition from Iranian to Russian rule (1804–1914)

Armenian national liberation movement

Armed movement (1889–1907)

Second Constitution Era (1908–1914)

World War I and Armenian genocide (1914–1918)

First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)

Soviet Armenia and the Armenian diaspora (1920–1991)

Interwar period (1920–1938)

World War II (1939–1945)

  • 1939 September 1: Germany invades Poland, World War II starts
  • 1941 June 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa starts. An estimated 300 to 500,000 Armenians served in the war, almost half of whom did not return.
  • 1941 August 23: Battle of Stalingrad begins
  • 1945 April 30: Reichstag captured by the Soviet army, military defeat of the Third Reich
  • 1945 May 9: Germany unconditionally surrenders

Cold War (1946–1987)

Karabakh conflict and independence of Armenia (1987–present)

  • 1987 September: the Union for National Self-Determination, the first non-Communist party, founded in Yerevan by Paruyr Hayrikyan.
  • 1987 October 18: A minor rally on Freedom Square, Yerevan for the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
  • 1988 February 12: First protests in Stepanakert.
  • 1988 February 18–26: Major demonstrations held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
  • 1988 February 20: NKAO Supreme Council issued a request to transfer the region to Soviet Armenia.
  • 1988 February 22–23: Local Armenians and Azerbaijanis clash in Askeran, resulting in several deaths.
  • 1988 February 27–29: Sumgait pogrom starts, Armenians of Azerbaijani start to leave in large numbers
  • 1988 March 9: Gorbachev meets with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Karen Demirchyan and Kamran Baghirov in Moscow to discuss the public demands of unification of Armenia and Karabakh.
  • 1988 March 22: Over 100,000 people discontented with the tendencies demonstrate in Yerevan.
  • 1988 March 23: The Soviet Supreme Soviet rejects the demand of NKAO Regional Party. On March 25 Gorbachev rejects Armenian claims, forbade demonstrations in Yerevan.
  • 1988 March 26: Despite not being authorized by the Moscow government, tens of thousands demonstrate in Yerevan.
  • 1988 March 30: NKAO Communist Party adopts a resolution demanding unification.
  • 1988 May 21: Karen Demirchyan resigns.
  • 1988 May 28: Flag of Armenia first raised in front of Matenadaran.
  • 1988 June 15: Soviet Armenian Supreme Council votes in favor of the unification of NKAO.
  • 1988 June 17: Soviet Azerbaijani Supreme Council opposes the transfer of NKAO to Armenia.
  • 1988 June 28–29: Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union disapproves Armenian claims to NKAO.
  • 1988 July 5: Soviet troops confronted by protesters in Zvartnots Airport, one man left dead, tens injured.
  • 1988 July 12: NKAO Soviet Council votes in favor of unification with Armenia.
  • 1988 July 18: Soviet Supreme Council refuses Armenian claims.
  • 1988 July 21: Paruyr Hayrikyan deported to Ethiopia.
  • 1988 fall: Around 150,000 Azerbaijanis of Armenia start to leave in large numbers.
  • 1988 September: State of emergency declared in Stepanakert after Armenian and Azerbaijanis clash.
  • 1988 November: Kirovabad pogrom
  • 1988 November 22: Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian genocide.
  • 1988 November 24: State of emergency declared in Yerevan.
  • 1988 December 7: Spitak earthquake.
  • 1988 December 10: Karabakh Committee members arrested, sent to Moscow.
  • 1989 March 16: Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant shut down.
  • 1989 May 31: Karabakh Committee members freed.
  • 1989 December 1: Soviet Armenian Supreme Council and NKAO Supreme Council declare the unification of the two entities http://www.encyclopedia.am/pages.php?bId=2&hId=1389
  • 1990 January 13–19: Pogrom of Armenians in Baku.
  • 1990 May 20: 1990 Armenian parliamentary election, pro-independence members form majority.
  • 1990 August 4: Levon Ter-Petrosyan elected chairman of the Supreme Council, de facto leader of Armenia.
  • 1990 August 23: Soviet Armenian Supreme Council declares sovereignty.
  • 1991 April 30 – May 15: Soviet and Azeri forces deport thousands of Armenian from Shahumyan during Operation Ring.
  • 1991 August 19–21: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow
  • 1991 September 2: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic proclaimed in Stepanakert.
  • 1991 September 21: Armenians vote in favor of independence from the Soviet Union.
  • 1991 September 23: Armenian Supreme Council proclaims independence

Levon Ter-Petrosyan presidency (1991–1998)

Robert Kocharyan presidency (1998–2008)

Serzh Sargsyan presidency (2008–2018)

Nikol Pashinyan premiership (2018–present)

Predicted and scheduled events

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