| February 21, 1914 | |
| A Turkish boycott of Armenian businesses is declared by the Ittihadists.
Dr. Nazim travels throughout the provinces to implement the boycott. |
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| February 26, 1914 | |
| The police spy David notifies Reshad Bey, Chief of the Political Section
of the Constantinople
Police Department that he is providing the names, biographies, pictures,
and speeches about reform, as well as other data, of two thousand leading
Armenians. |
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| March 2, 1914 | |
| Parliamentary elections held in Turkey with only candidates approved by
the CUP winning seats. |
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| March 14, 1914 | |
| The Ittihadist Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda, the vice-governor of Seghert, is appointed governor-general of Bitlis Province. | |
| August 3, 1914 | |
| The Turkish government sends sealed envelopes containing a general
mobilization order to district and village councils, with the strict
instructions that they were not to be opened until further notice. A
fortnight later, with the approval of the Ittihad Committee, instructions
are issued to open the envelopes. |
|
| August 8, 1914 | |
| Censorship of all telegraphic communication is announced by the
government. |
|
| August 18, 1914 | |
| Looting is reported in Sivas,
Diyarbekir,
and other provinces, under the guise of collecting war contributions.
Stores owned by Armenian and Greek merchants are vandalized. |
|
| August 18, 1914 | |
| 1,080 shops owned by Armenians are burned in the city of Diyarbekir. |
|
| August 22, 1914 | |
| The male population between the ages of 20 and 45 is conscripted by the
Turkish armed forces. |
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| August 28, 1914 | |
| 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 districts. | |
| September 11, 1914 | |
| The Armenian National Assembly, composed of civil and religious
representatives, meets in Constantinople
and advises Armenians in the provinces to remain calm in the face of
provocation. |
|
| September 27, 1914 | |
| News reaches Constantinople
about the demand made by the government of the Armenian population in Zeitun
to turn in its weapons, including all types of knives. |
|
| September 30, 1914 | |
| The government distributes arms to the Muslim residents of the town of Keghi in Erzerum Province on the excuse that the Armenians there were unreliable | |
| October 1, 1914 | |
| Nazaret Chavush, the most notable Armenian leader in Zeitun, is murdered on the order of Haidar Pasha, governor of Marash. | |
| October 10, 1914 | |
| In Zeitun,
all the Armenian notables are called to a meeting. About three score
attend and are immediately arrested. |
|
| October 13, 1914 | |
| News of requisitions imposed on Armenian businesses as 'war
contributions' reaches Constantinople
from every province. |
|
| October 13, 1914 | |
| News reaches Constantinople
of starvation and the spread of disease in Sivas
Province because of the desperate conditions created by the 'war
contributions' campaign conducted against the Armenians. |
|
| October 17, 1914 | |
| Bands of chetes begin looting, violating women and children, and
large-scale murdering in Erzerum
Province |
|
| October 17, 1914 | |
| Leaders of the Armenian nationalist Dashnak party organization in Erzerum are arrested. | |
| November 13, 1914 | |
| Unfounded accusations are launched against the Armenians that they had revolted and were preparing to join the Russian forces. | |
| November 14, 1914 | |
| The village of Otsni in Erzerum
Province is attacked at night by chete forces. The local Armenian
priest and many other Armenians are killed. Every house is looted. The
first attacks by chete forces on the Armenian villages of Erzerum
are reported. |
|
| November 18, 1914 | |
| The Jihad Proclamation is read in all the provinces of the Ottoman
Empire. |
|
| November 19, 1914 | |
| Mass executions of Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army takes place in various public squares for the purpose of terrorizing the Armenians, while with voluntary contributions, Armenians were building several hospitals for the use of the Turkish army through the Red Crescent Society. | |
| November 21, 1914 | |
| In Mush,
Ittihadist agents distribute arms to the Turkish population after arousing
them with false stories of Armenian outrages. |
|
| November 23, 1914 | |
| Previously undisturbed Armenian schools and churches in Sivas Province, together with many private residences, are requisitioned by the Turkish army for use as barracks. The carts, horses, and other travel equipment of the Armenian villagers in the provinces are confiscated. | |
| December, 1914 | |
| The beginning of a series of isolated murders to terrorize the Armenian population. | |
| December 6, 1914 | |
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|
Armenians are put to use as porters of army supplies in Erzerum, Trebizond, and Sivas Provinces under the worst of cold winter conditions for the purpose of letting them die of overwork and illness. |
| January 1, 1915 | |
| Nuri, the vice-governor of Gavar District in Van
Province, receives orders from the military governor to kill the Armenian
soldiers in the Turkish Army who were stationed in his district. |
|
| January 5, 1915 | |
| The Turkish government publicly charges that Armenian bakers in the army bakeries of Sivas were poisoning the bread of the Turkish forces. The bakers are cruelly beaten, despite the fact that a group of doctors prove the charge to be false by examining the bread and even eating it. As this marks an attempt on the part of the government to incite massacre, the government does not rescind the charge. | |
| January 12, 1915 | |
| Ahmed Muammer, the governor-general of Sivas Province, orders the destruction of Tavra-Koy and other strategically located villages around the city of Sivas in order to make future defense impossible for the Armenians. Inside the city of Sivas strategically-located buildings were requisitioned. | |
| January 22, 1915 | |
| Enver arrives in Constantinople
by automobile from Sivas.
After his arrival, he makes a speech congratulating the Armenians for
admirably doing their duty on the Caucasian Front and elsewhere. Enver
seeks to lull the Armenians of Constantinople
who had not yet experienced the general persecutions in the provinces
because of the presence of a large European community in the city. |
|
| January 23, 1915 | |
| Enver, now actively Minister of War again, issues a general order to shoot all persons resisting his orders. | |
| March 1, 1915 | |
| In Marash,
the Armenians in the Turkish Army are deprived of their uniforms and arms. |
|
| March 3, 1915 | |
| A dispatch from the Ittihad Central Committee is released announcing the decision to exterminate the Armenians. | |
| March 3, 1915 | |
|
|
Armenian soldiers in the Erzerum
army area are deprived of their uniforms and arms. |
| March 12, 1915 | |
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|
Mass arrests of Armenians are carried out in Dortyol and a public announcement is made that those arrested would be sent to work on road construction near Aleppo. They are never heard of again. |
| March 18, 1915 | |
| In Zeitun,
the Turkish forces arrest many of the remaining Armenian notables and
intellectuals whom they torture and finally kill. |
|
| March 19, 1915 | |
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|
Six Armenian soldiers from the town of Gurun are publicly hanged in Sivas to frighten the Armenian population. |
| March 29, 1915 | |
| In Aleppo,
the capital of the province, Jemal Pasha falsely announces that the
Armenians of Zeitun
are in revolt and therefore he is instructing the military authorities, to
the exclusion of the civilian government, to take measures to punish the
Armenians. |
|
| March 29, 1915 | |
| Artillery and three regiments of the regular army are sent to Zeitun
as reinforcements for the three battalions which had arrived in the town
in January and February. |
|
| March 30, 1915 | |
| Mass beatings and tortures are inflicted on the Armenians of Chomaklu. | |
| April 1, 1915 | |
|
|
The mass arrest of Armenian political leaders is carried out in Sivas and other provinces. |
| April 2, 1915 | |
|
|
In Sivas Province, battalions of gendarmery and 4000 chetes begin regular attacks on Armenian villages with increasing brutality. |
| April 12, 1915 | |
| Widespread attacks on, and looting of, Armenian villages in Bitlis and Erzerum Provinces are fed by the accusation that the Armenians caused the war. | |
| April 20, 1915 | |
| The deportation of the 25,000 Armenians of Zeitun is completed. | |
| April 20, 1915 | |
| Twenty Armenian Social Democratic Hnchak Party members are
brought to the Central Prison in Constantinople
to face court martial. They are hanged publicly on June 2, 1915. |
|
| April 24, 1915 | |
| 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders are arrested in Constantinople
and sent to Chankri and Ayash,
where they are later slain. |
|
| April 24, 1915 | |
| The editors and staff of Azadamart, the leading Armenian
newspaper of Constantinople,
are arrested, and on June 15 are slain in Diyarbekir,
where they had been transported and imprisoned. |
|
| April 24, 1915 | |
| The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
and Zohrab, Armenian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament, petition the
Grand Vizier, Said Halim, the Minister of the Interior Talaat, and the
President of the Senate, Rifat, on behalf of the arrested Armenians of Constantinople.
Though approached separately, all three give identical answers; that the
government is isolating the Armenian leadership and dissolving the
Armenian political organizations. |
|
| April 26, 1915 | |
| Three Armenians are hanged publicly in Mush without trial | |
| May 1, 1915 | |
| The arrest of the Armenian professors and teachers of the American Euphrates College in Kharput is started. | |
| May 6, 1915 | |
| The New York Times reports that the Young Turks had adopted a policy to annihilate the Armenians. | |
| May 24, 1915 | |
| A note is sent by the Allied Powers to the Turkish Cabinet holding it
responsible for the massacres of the Armenians. |
|
| May 25, 1915 | |
| Armenian parliamentary deputies Zohrab and Vartkes are arrested in Constantinople and later murdered while in custody in Kara-Kopru. | |
| June 30, 1915 | |
| 3,000 Armenians from the city of Erzerum
are murdered while being deported. |
|
| June 30, 1915 | |
| 6,000 Armenians from Zeitun arrive in the Konia Desert and nearby malarial marshes. | |
| July 18, 1915 | |
| In the region of Dersim, 3,000 Armenians are killed by the Turks. Almost all of the large Kurdish population of Dersim refuses to participate in the massacres and even shelters many Armenians. | |
| August 2 to August 7, 1915 | |
| For six nights, Armenian prisoners, mostly intellectuals, held in Gok-Medrese in Sivas, which was a Seljuk structure in use as a temporary prison, were taken out and slain. | |
| August 12, 1915 | |
| Enver reports that to date 200,000 Armenians had been slain. | |
| August 18, 1915 | |
| The New York Times reports of a plan for the destruction of the
whole Armenian nation. |
|
| September 14, 1915 | |
| The New York Times reports the murder of 350,000 Armenians | |
| October 7, 1915 | |
| By this date the number of deported Armenians still living is estimated
at 360,000 minimum, and the number of Armenians dead is estimated at
800,000 minimum. |
|
| October 7, 1915 | |
| $75,000 is collected in the United States for relief for the Armenian deportees. | |
| October 8, 1915 | |
| Talaat requests from provincial officials documents proving Armenian 'treason' against Turkey to justify the massacres. | |
| October 22, 1915 | |
| The Turkish Embassy in Washington accuses the Armenians of treason against the Ottoman state. | |
| November 14, 1915 | |
| The Anglican and the Orthodox Churches ask U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to pressure the German government to intervene with the Turkish government to stop the massacre of the Armenians. | |
| November 18, 1915 | |
|
A circular telegram is sent ordering the deportation of Armenian children. |
| April 16, 1916 | |
| The New York Times reports that German Catholics had placed the number of massacred Armenians at 1,000,000, and that they held England at fault for this great crime. | |
| July 19, 1916 | |
| The U.S. House of Representatives adopts the resolution introduced in
the U.S. Senate establishing a day of commemoration for the Armenian
victims. |
|
| July 23, 1916 | |
| In order to further the Islamization and Turkification of the Armenian remnants in the Hawran District, all the Armenian clerics found there are murdered by the Turks. | |
| April 20, 1917 | |
| Turkey breaks relations with the United States. | |
| March 12, 1918 | |
| Enver orders the killing of all civilian Armenians over five years of age and remaining Armenians in the Turkish military within 48 hours. The Germans attempt to stop the Turks from committing this massacre. | |
| September 15 to September 17, 1918 | |
| The three-day massacre by Turkish military forces under the command of
Nuri Pasha (Enver's younger brother) and Halil Pasha (Enver's uncle)
results in the death of 30,000 Armenian civilians in the city of Baku. |
|
| October 8, 1918 | |
| The Ittihad Cabinet of Enver, Jemal, and Talaat resigns. All three prepare to flee the country. | |
| December 11, 1918 | |
| Talaat, Enver, and Jemal are summoned by the Fifth Committee of the Turkish Parliament to appear for an inquiry within ten days | |
| March 13, 1919 | |
| The Grand Vizier, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, attempts to justify the massacres on the basis of false accusation against the Armenians. | |
| June 10, 1919 | |
| Talaat, Enver, Jemal, and Dr. Nazim, charged with war crimes by the Turkish court martial, are condemned to death in absentia. | |
| August 10, 1920 | |
| The Treaty of Sèvres is signed. According to articles 226, 227, 228, 229, 230 pertaining to the massacres, the Turkish government promises to hand over all documents and any persons requested by the Allies. Articles 88 and 89 recognize Armenia as a free and independent state. | |
| July 24, 1923 | |
| Treaty of Lausanne signed by Turkey and the Allies excludes all mention of Armenia or the Armenians. The new Turkish Nationalist state is extended international recognition. The Ottoman Empire goes out of existence. | |
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