FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER, “AZTARAR”

The small community of India created in the early seventeenth century near Ispahan (Persia), went into history for two main reasons: the publication of the first draft of an Armenian Constitution (1773) and the birth of the first Armenian newspaper (1794)…

COMPLETION OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE ARMENIAN BIBLE

After more than two and half years of work, the printing of the first edition of the Armenian Bible was finished in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1668. The tenacious efforts of Voskan Yerevantsi, a bishop of the Armenian Church, had finally achieved an elusive target that…

DEATH OF KAY ARMEN

Kay Armen was an Armenian American singer who was popular during the 1940s and 1950, with a career in show business spanning almost six decades in radio, television, onstage, and in film….

BIRTH OF EDWARD JERBASHIAN

Edward Jerbashian was born on September 24, 1923, in Yerevan. He graduated from Shota Rustaveli high school in Yerevan in 1941. He was mobilized and, after completing studies at the officers’ school, he participated in World War II in 1943-1944, where he was wounded and lost a leg. After demobilization, he…

BATTLE OF ARARA

The Battle of Arara, on September 19, 1918, was the most remarkable performance of the Armenian Legion. Initially named Légion d’Orient (Eastern Legion), the Armenian Legion was formed in November 1916 as the result of an agreement between Boghos Nubar …

AYTZEMNIK URARTU

Aytzemnik Urartu was the first female sculptor in the history of fine arts in Soviet Armenia. Her actual name was Aytzemnik Ter Khachatrian, and she was born in Kars on September 15, 1899, in the family of an educator…

THE CATASTROPHE OF SMYRNA

Smyrna was the second city of the Ottoman Empire and its Armenian population, together with most Armenians from Constantinople, had been spared deportation in 1915. But in 1922, after the success of the Kemalist movement, Armenians and Greek residents were not spared.

DECLERATION OF INDEPENDANCE OF ARTSAKH

Lawmakers from the Nagorno Karabagh Regional Council and the Shahumian Regional Council convened a meeting on September 2, 1991, and declared the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic with its border encompassing those of the Nagorno Karabagh Autonomous Region…

DEATH OF ENVER PASHA

Unlike the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, Talaat, Ismail Enver Pasha was a military officer, born in Constantinople on November 22, 1881. He studied in different military schools and graduated in 1903 with distinction. In 1906 he was sent to the Third Army, stationed in Salonica. He became a member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) during his service.

ASSASINATION OF JEMAL PASHA

The Nemesis Operation, approved by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in its 9th World Assembly, held in Yerevan in September-October 1919, had a long list of Turkish leaders responsible for the Armenian Genocide among its targets. One of them was Ahmed Jemal, minister of Marine of the Ottoman Empire and member of the leading triumvirate of the Committee of Union and Progress (Ittihad), together with Talaat, minister of Interior, and Enver, minister of War.