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“Box on the Ear” Massacre
Ottoman forces, military and civilians alike attacked Armenian villages in Eastern Anatolia, killing 8,000 Armenians, including children. One year later, 2,500 Armenian women were burned to death in Urfa Cathedral. Around the same time, a group of 5,000 were killed after demonstrations begging for international intervention to prevent massacres upset officials in Constantinople. -
Armenians before
there were 2,133,190 Armenians in the empire in 1914 -
WWI
In 1914, the Turks entered World War I on the side of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The outbreak of war would provide the perfect opportunity to solve the “Armenian question” once and for all. -
WWI
Germany declares war on Russia. Beginning of World War I. -
WWI
Russia formally declares war against the Ottoman Empire. -
Scare tactics
Six Armenian soldiers from the town of Gurun are publicly hanged in Sivas to frighten the Armenian population. -
Start of Genocide
Turkish government wanted to get rid of all Armenians in the Ottoman Empire -
Genocide Begins
Armed roundups began on the evening of April 24, 1915, as 300 Armenian intellectuals – political leaders, educators, writers, and religious leaders in Constantinople – were forcibly taken from their homes, tortured, then hanged or shot. -
Period: to
Armenian Genocide
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The start
First large-scale massacre of Armenian men is carried out in the town of Kharput. -
Leaving
A government decree instructs the 30,000 Armenians in Trebizond to leave the city within 5 days. -
Mush
The beginning of a four-day massacre in Mush under the combined orders of parliamentary deputy Elias, vice-governor Servet, and Governor-general Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda, Talaat's brother-in-law. -
Slain
Enver reports that to date 200,000 Armenians had been slain. -
Ittihad
The Ittihad Party, with 120 delegates attending, convenes under the guise of the Tejeddut Party. -
Armenians left after
only about 387,800 by 1922. -
Lausanne Conference
The first Lausanne Conference is convened
