History

History

April 24, 1915

Young Turks

15th century

301 A.D.

Armenians absorbed into Ottoman Empire.

Armenia becomes the first nation in the world to make Christianity its official religion.

• On this day in 1908, amid turmoil in the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdul Hamid decrees restoration of the constitution, fulfilling the main demand of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), a rising reformist political party known as the Young Turkey Party, or the Young Turks.
• The term Pan-Turkism refers to an intellectual and political movement advocating the union of all Turkic peoples
• 1913 - Young Turks gain control of Ottoman Empire.

2400 B.C.

Book of Genesis

Noah's Ark in Ararat Mountains

Genesis 8:3-4

and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

1800 A.D.

1914 A.D.

400 A.D.

1915 A.D.

2400 B.C.

World War I

405 A.D.

1839-1837

Tanzimat Reforms

Armenians invent their own alphabet.

2300 B.C.

Hayk or Hayg create Armenian nation in Ararat Mountains

• European influence
• The bywords of the movement were justice and order, which were seen as prerequisites to effecting substantial social and economic change.
• Purpose: centralize Ottoman rule
• Armenians seized opportunity to gain basic rights.