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Turkish troops are garrisoned in Armenian schools and churches.
Turkish troops are garrisoned in Armenian schools and churches in Sivas Province. In the city of Sivas, 56,000 soldiers of the 10th army corps are quartered in and around the christian districs -
The Turkish government plans to massacre the Armenians
In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians -
The CUP exterminates Armenians.
The Ottoman Ittihad (CUP) Central Committee secretly announces the decision to exterminate Armenians. Armenian soldiers in the Erzurum Army area are deprived of their uniforms and arms. -
Arrests of Armenians
Mass arrests of Armenians are carried out in Dortyol; they are never heard of again. -
Murad resists arrests in Sivas.
The Armenian Dashnak leader, Murad, resists arrests in Sivas and flees to the mountains, and after many daring escapes reaches the Caucasus. -
The first official phase of the massacres begins.
Hundreds of intellectuals are arrested in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. They are later murdered. This event marks the official beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which lasts until 1917. However, massacres continue into the 1920's. -
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Armenian Genocide is said to be ended
There is no specific date or month in which the genocide ended, and killings continued a few years after. The official end date of the genocide is in 1917. -
Russian forces occupy Armenian regions of the Ottoman Empire
After gradually advancing into Armenian regions of the Ottoman Empire, Russian forces finally take over all Armenian regions. However, most Armenians have been deported or murdered at this point. -
20,000 Armenians in the city of Aleppo are reported in extreme distress
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Massacres and deportations finally ended
By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country.