Armenia

36 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Armenia, 1727 CE to 2017 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

18th century

3 entries, 1727 CE to 1727 CE

  • 1727February 26 – The beginning of siege of Halidzor Fortress.Armeniasource
  • 1727March 4 – The Battle of Halidzor begins. A small group of defenders in lead of David Bek, Mkhitar Sparapet and Ter Avetis, overcomes a much larger Ottoman Empire army.Armeniasource
  • 1727March 7 – Ending of Battle of Halidzor and victory for the Armenian soldiers of Syunik.Armeniasource

20th century

15 entries, 1918 CE to 1996 CE

  • 1918June 4 - The First Republic of Armenia signed its first treaty, the Treaty of Batum. The other signatories are the Ottoman Empire, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Georgia.Armeniasource
  • 1918May 21–29 - The Ottoman World War I defeat at the Battle of Sardarabad is seen as saving the Armenian nation from destruction.Armeniasource
  • 1918December 18 - Armenpress, the oldest news agency in Armenia, is founded.Armeniasource
  • 1918September 30 - Gevorg Emin, poet, essayist and translatorArmeniasource
  • 1918? - Hambardzum Arakelian, journalist, writer, and activist, founder of The Relief Committee for Armenian migrants and the Armenian Popular partyArmeniasource
  • 1987October 18 - A minor rally on Freedom Square, Yerevan for the unification of Artsakh with Armenia.Armeniasource
  • 1988March 9 – Gorbachev meets with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Karen Demirchyan and Kamran Baghirov in Moscow to discuss the public demands of unification of Armenia and Karabakh.Armeniasource
  • 1988November 20 – Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian genocide.Armeniasource
  • 1988December 7 – The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake leaves 25,000–50,000 dead and 31,000–130,000 injured.Armeniasource
  • 1988June 2 – Rima Pipoyan, Armenian choreographer, director, dancer and dance teacher.Armeniasource
  • 1991October 17 - The first ever presidential election is held in Armenia, the result was a victory for Levon Ter-Petrosyan.Armeniasource
  • 1992May 8-9 - The Armenian Armed Forces capture the city of Shushi, marking the first significant military victory by Armenians.Armeniasource
  • 1996September 22: Levon Ter-Petrosyan wins the presidential elections in Armenia.Armeniasource
  • 1996August 16–25: Five athletes from Armenia competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics.Armeniasource
  • 1996September 21: A military parade in honour of the 5th anniversary of Armenia's independence was held on the Republic Square.Armeniasource

21st century

18 entries, 2000 CE to 2017 CE

  • 2000March 22: Former NKR Defence Minister General Samvel Babayan leads an unsuccessful assassination attempt against president Arkadi Ghukasyan in Stepanakert.Armeniasource
  • 2000April 4: Former Interior Minister Vano Siradeghyan leaves Armenia while police investigates charges on him for murder.Armeniasource
  • 2000September 15-October 1: 25 athletes from Armenia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Armeniasource
  • 2001September 25 - Pope John Paul II visits Armenia to participate on the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a national religion in Armenia.Armeniasource
  • 2006July 31 – The humanitarian assistance rendered by the Armenian government has been delivered to Lebanon via Syria. The 7.5-ton humanitarian cargo includes 52 types of medical products and first-aid means.Armeniasource
  • 2006August 28 – Armenian tennis champion Andre Agassi played at the U.S. Open. It was the last opportunity for tennis fans to see Agassi in the Association of Tennis Professionals play live. He faced Romania's Andrei Pavel in the first round.Armeniasource
  • 2006May 3 – An Armavia plane crashed into the sea while attempting to conduct a go-around following its first approach to Sochi airport, Russia, killing all 113 people on board.Armeniasource
  • 2006August 16 – Britain's Ian Porterfield was named Armenia's new soccer coach. The 60-year-old Scotsman replaced Dutchman Henk Wisman, who was fired four months ago following a string of poor results.Armeniasource
  • 2006February 10–26 – 5 athletes from Armenia competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.Armeniasource
  • 2007January 25 – The city council of Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh has selected a new coat of arms for the city as part of a "Shushi Revival." The new coat of arms was designed by Rouben Arutchyan, an artist from Yerevan by descent from a famous Shushi family. The new coat features a guardian angel of "Sourp Amenaprkich Kazanchetsost" Church.Armeniasource
  • 2007September 7 – Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan announced that Metsamor unit-2 was to be replaced with a new nuclear power plant built on the same site at a cost of $2 billion. "The project's feasibility study is being carried out by Armenia, Russia, the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The old nuclear power plant is to be rebuilt within four-and-a-half years", he stated, clarifying that "many foreign countries now understand that Armenia must have a nuclear power plant." TAEK, which had recently denied claims in Today's Zaman that its latest protest to the IAEA was made in response to the RESAI early warning system indicating "an increase in radioactive leakage in the region," stating, "None of the radioactivity analyses or RESAI station measurements done up until now have uncovered radioactivity or radiation levels above normal," confirmed that it would be involved in following related developments and taking the necessary precautions from the Turkish side.Armeniasource
  • 2007January 29 – Armenian grand master Levon Aronian won Corus-2007, the international chess tournament held in the Netherlands.Armeniasource
  • 2013February 18 - Voters in Armenia go to the polls for a presidential election with incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan expected to win. Independent observers including the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have expressed concern about the conduct of the elections.Armeniasource
  • 2013January 31 - Armenian politician Paruyr Hayrikyan is shot in his right clavicle and taken to a hospital in Yerevan, during his bid for the presidency.Armeniasource
  • 2013Official partial returns from the Armenian presidential election indicate that incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan will be reelected in a landslide with the leading Opposition candidate Raffi Hovannisian raising concerns about irregularities.Armeniasource
  • 20144 June - When viewing on the recognition of the Armenian genocide, the Foreign Minister of Australia Julie Bishop publicly declared that, while respecting the rights of individuals and groups to have strong views on the matter, Australia does not view the tragic events during the end of the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.Armeniasource
  • 20147-23 February - 4 athletes from Armenia competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.Armeniasource
  • 201731 August – Visa requirements for Japanese citizens are waived.Armeniasource