1920 November 22: US President
Woodrow Wilson signs the arbitral award, establishing the border between Turkey and Armenia,
Western Armeniade jure part of the Republic of Armenia.
1920 November 29: Soviet army invades Armenia, end of Armenian independence.
Soviet Armenia and the Armenian diaspora (1920–1991)
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.[3]
1958 September 2: Soviet MiG-17 pilots shot down a
US Air Force C-130 aircraft over Soviet Armenia with 17 crewman aboard, after the aircraft inadvertently penetrated denied airspace. It crashed near the village of Sasnashen, 34 miles northwest of Yerevan.[4]
1988 February 18–26: Major demonstrations held in
Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.[7][8]
1988 February 20: NKAO Supreme Council issued a request to transfer the region to Soviet Armenia.[9]
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[10]
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.[11]
1988 March 22: Over 100,000 people discontented with the tendencies demonstrate in Yerevan.[12]
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.[12]
1988 March 26: Despite not being authorized by the Moscow government, tens of thousands demonstrate in Yerevan.[13]
1988 March 30: NKAO Communist Party adopts a resolution demanding unification.[13]
1994 May 5: First Nagorno-Karabakh War:
Bishkek Protocol ends the war with Armenian forces establishing de facto control over Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent Azerbaijani districts.
2000 March 22: Former NKR Defence Minister General
Samvel Babayan leads an unsuccessful assassination attempt against president
Arkadi Ghukasyan in Stepanakert.[34]
2000 April 4: Former Interior Minister
Vano Siradeghyan leaves Armenia while police investigates charges on him for murder.[35]
2001 September 25:
Pope John Paul II visits Armenia to participate on the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a national religion in Armenia.[36][37][38]
2001 September 25: Poghos Poghosyan, a Georgian citizen of Armenian origin, killed in central Yerevan by President Kocharyan's bodyguards.
2002 May 27–28: Second Armenia-Diaspora Conference held in Yerevan.[39]
2004 April 12–13: Tens of thousands of protesters, demanding resignation of President Kocharyan, clash with police on
Baghramyan Avenue, many left injured.[43][44]
2008 February 19: Serzh Sargsyan
elected president with 52.8% of the total vote, opposition disputes results.[62][63]
2008 February 20 – March 2: Presidential election runner-up Levon Ter-Petrosyan leads a
series of protests in Yerevan.[64] Post-election protests end with 10 deaths (8 civilian, 2 law enforcing agents). President Kocharyan announces, National Assembly approves state of emergency in Yerevan. Army forces remain in the city until March 21, 2008.[65][66][67][68][69]
2011 December 21: French National Assembly approves the Armenian genocide denial law.[109] Turkey recalls their ambassadors from France, lists several trade, military and political sanctions on France.[110]
2013 February 19 – April 9:
Mass protests against the presidential election results, led by official runner-up
Raffi Hovannisian.[121][122][123] The demonstrations reached their climax and effectively ended on April 9 when a clash between the police and opposition protesters took place on Yerevan's
Baghramyan Avenue.[124][125][126]
2013 May 6: Republican Party
wins absolute majority to the Yerevan city council, opposition disputes results.[127]
2013 July 20–25: Mass protests in Yerevan result in cancellation of transportation fare increase.[128][129]
2014 October 10: President Serzh Sargsyan signed a corresponding accession treaty in Minsk with the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to
Eurasian Economic Union.[133]
2014 December 4: The
National Assembly ratifies the Eurasian Economic Union treaty with 103 in favor, 7 against, and 1 abstention.[134]
2015 January 12: Seven people are
killed in
Gyumri. The suspect, Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the
Russian military base in Gyumri is apprehended by the Russian border guards and is transferred to the base, triggering anti-government and anti-Russian rallies in Gyumri and Yerevan.
2019 November 5: The
CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Yerevan.
2020 September 27:
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Deadly clashes erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Artsakh introduced
martial law and
mobilized forces.
2020 November 10: Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a Russia-brokered
ceasefire agreement, ending the 44 day war.
^"The EU meets Eastern Partnership foreign ministers ahead of November summit".
European External Action Service. Retrieved 25 June 2013. In Vilnius the EU is hoping to see the signature of the Association Agreement with Ukraine, provided the benchmarks set in December 2012 are met. The EU also wants to see the finalisation of negotiations on Association Agreements, including Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas, with Moldova, Georgia and Armenia which could lead to the initialling of the Association Agreements by Vilnius.
Democracy on Rocky Ground: Armenia's Disputed 2008 Presidential Election, Post-election Violence, and the One-sided Pursuit of Accountability. New York, NY:
Human Rights Watch. 2009.
ISBN9781564324443.
Nalbandian, Louise (1967). The Armenian revolutionary movement: the development of Armenian political parties through the 19th century. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press.
1920 November 22: US President
Woodrow Wilson signs the arbitral award, establishing the border between Turkey and Armenia,
Western Armeniade jure part of the Republic of Armenia.
1920 November 29: Soviet army invades Armenia, end of Armenian independence.
Soviet Armenia and the Armenian diaspora (1920–1991)
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.[3]
1958 September 2: Soviet MiG-17 pilots shot down a
US Air Force C-130 aircraft over Soviet Armenia with 17 crewman aboard, after the aircraft inadvertently penetrated denied airspace. It crashed near the village of Sasnashen, 34 miles northwest of Yerevan.[4]
1988 February 18–26: Major demonstrations held in
Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.[7][8]
1988 February 20: NKAO Supreme Council issued a request to transfer the region to Soviet Armenia.[9]
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[10]
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.[11]
1988 March 22: Over 100,000 people discontented with the tendencies demonstrate in Yerevan.[12]
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.[12]
1988 March 26: Despite not being authorized by the Moscow government, tens of thousands demonstrate in Yerevan.[13]
1988 March 30: NKAO Communist Party adopts a resolution demanding unification.[13]
1994 May 5: First Nagorno-Karabakh War:
Bishkek Protocol ends the war with Armenian forces establishing de facto control over Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent Azerbaijani districts.
2000 March 22: Former NKR Defence Minister General
Samvel Babayan leads an unsuccessful assassination attempt against president
Arkadi Ghukasyan in Stepanakert.[34]
2000 April 4: Former Interior Minister
Vano Siradeghyan leaves Armenia while police investigates charges on him for murder.[35]
2001 September 25:
Pope John Paul II visits Armenia to participate on the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a national religion in Armenia.[36][37][38]
2001 September 25: Poghos Poghosyan, a Georgian citizen of Armenian origin, killed in central Yerevan by President Kocharyan's bodyguards.
2002 May 27–28: Second Armenia-Diaspora Conference held in Yerevan.[39]
2004 April 12–13: Tens of thousands of protesters, demanding resignation of President Kocharyan, clash with police on
Baghramyan Avenue, many left injured.[43][44]
2008 February 19: Serzh Sargsyan
elected president with 52.8% of the total vote, opposition disputes results.[62][63]
2008 February 20 – March 2: Presidential election runner-up Levon Ter-Petrosyan leads a
series of protests in Yerevan.[64] Post-election protests end with 10 deaths (8 civilian, 2 law enforcing agents). President Kocharyan announces, National Assembly approves state of emergency in Yerevan. Army forces remain in the city until March 21, 2008.[65][66][67][68][69]
2011 December 21: French National Assembly approves the Armenian genocide denial law.[109] Turkey recalls their ambassadors from France, lists several trade, military and political sanctions on France.[110]
2013 February 19 – April 9:
Mass protests against the presidential election results, led by official runner-up
Raffi Hovannisian.[121][122][123] The demonstrations reached their climax and effectively ended on April 9 when a clash between the police and opposition protesters took place on Yerevan's
Baghramyan Avenue.[124][125][126]
2013 May 6: Republican Party
wins absolute majority to the Yerevan city council, opposition disputes results.[127]
2013 July 20–25: Mass protests in Yerevan result in cancellation of transportation fare increase.[128][129]
2014 October 10: President Serzh Sargsyan signed a corresponding accession treaty in Minsk with the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to
Eurasian Economic Union.[133]
2014 December 4: The
National Assembly ratifies the Eurasian Economic Union treaty with 103 in favor, 7 against, and 1 abstention.[134]
2015 January 12: Seven people are
killed in
Gyumri. The suspect, Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the
Russian military base in Gyumri is apprehended by the Russian border guards and is transferred to the base, triggering anti-government and anti-Russian rallies in Gyumri and Yerevan.
2019 November 5: The
CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Yerevan.
2020 September 27:
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Deadly clashes erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Artsakh introduced
martial law and
mobilized forces.
2020 November 10: Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a Russia-brokered
ceasefire agreement, ending the 44 day war.
^"The EU meets Eastern Partnership foreign ministers ahead of November summit".
European External Action Service. Retrieved 25 June 2013. In Vilnius the EU is hoping to see the signature of the Association Agreement with Ukraine, provided the benchmarks set in December 2012 are met. The EU also wants to see the finalisation of negotiations on Association Agreements, including Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas, with Moldova, Georgia and Armenia which could lead to the initialling of the Association Agreements by Vilnius.
Democracy on Rocky Ground: Armenia's Disputed 2008 Presidential Election, Post-election Violence, and the One-sided Pursuit of Accountability. New York, NY:
Human Rights Watch. 2009.
ISBN9781564324443.
Nalbandian, Louise (1967). The Armenian revolutionary movement: the development of Armenian political parties through the 19th century. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press.