The Armenian Genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, carried out by the government of the Committee of Union and Progress during the First World War. It began on the night of 24 April 1915 with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and leaders in Constantinople, followed by the deportation of Armenian communities from across Anatolia on marches into the Syrian desert, during which many were killed or died of starvation and disease. Estimates of the dead run from about one million to one and a half million. It is recognised as a genocide by most historians and by many countries, but the Turkish government rejects that term. The jurist Raphael Lemkin cited it as a case when he coined the word genocide.
Before and after
- from 17 December 1914 to 13 January 1915First Battle of Artois
- from 20 December 1914 to 17 March 1915First Battle of Champagne
- 25 December 1914Christmas truce
- 1915Establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park
- 1915Armenian Genocide
- 1915Bedrich Hrozny shows that Hittite is an Indo-European language
- from 28 January 1915 to 30 October 1918Sinai and Palestine Campaign
- from 18 February 1915 to 26 March 1915Battles of Przasnysz
- from 21 April 1915 to 25 May 1915Second Battle of Ypres
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