1860 - 1870 - Persecution of Armenian's start by Turkish peoples.
1893 - Revolutionary placards are posted in Yozgad and Marsavan. Moslems and Christians fight in Moush and Sassoun which besieged for several months, falls in 1894.
1894 -1896 - Sultan Abdul Hamid's policies result in the death of more than 300,000 men, women and children. The move cripples Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
1896 - The Great Massacre of Constantinople is executed. For two days at the Turkish Government's bidding, Armenians are killed indiscriminately in the streets of Constantinople.
1909 - 30,000 Armenians massacred in the Adana area
1914 - Candidates of the Young Turk's party win all seats in Parliamentary elections and mass censorship of communication and travel is imposed. Turkish power grows, drafting males between 20 and 45, and the Jihad Proclamation is read all over the Ottoman Empire. Public disarmament and disempowerment of Armenians ensue while the Turkish government distributes arms to Moslem residents. Violence towards Armenians revolting and joining Russian forces incur mass executions of Armenian soldiers in the Turkish Army.
> 1,080 shops owned by Armenians are burned in the city of Diyarbeir.
> About 3 score Armenian notables are entrapped and arrested in Zeitun.
> Crosses on foreign missions are broken and replaced with crescents.
1915 Q1 - The Turkish government attempts to incite an Armenian massacre by publicly accusing and punishing Armenian bakers on an obviously false charge of poisoning their bread. Armenian attacks and disarmaments continue to grow, with murder, rape, looting and disarmaments reported in Armenian villages in the Sivas Province. The Ittihad Central Committee announces their decision to exterminate Armenians, resulting in mass arrests of Armenians in Dortyol, whom were never seen again.
> The Armenian population in Sivas province is disarmed.
> The Turkish forces arrest, torture and kill many remaining Armenian notables in Zeitun.
> Public hangings of six Armenian soldiers are executed to frighten the Armenian population.
1915 Q2 - Talaat assures the Armenian Parliamentary deputy Bedros Halajian that there will be no massacres. Wholesale massacres and arrests of Armenians follow this statement. The deportation of 25,000 Armenians from Zeitun is carried out accompanied by violence, murder and looting. Armenian political figures are arrested and publicly hanged, with and without trial. The world begins to take notice of the Armenian annihilation by the Young Turks, as Allied Forces notify the Turkish Cabinet that they are held responsible for the massacres.
> The Turks burn the famous monastery of Zeitun.
> 80 Villages in the Van Province are obliterated and 24,000 Armenians killed in 3 days.
> April 24th : 250 Armenian intellectuals are arrested in Constantinople and later slain.
> 20 Armenian Social Democratic Hnchak Party members are arrested and publicly hung on June 2nd.
> The Russian forces arriving in Van cremate bodies of the victims, 55,000 of which are Armenian.
> 3,000 Armenians from the city of Erzerum are murdered while being deported.
1915 Q3 - The Interior Ministry issues instructions: Armenian villages are to be settled with Muslim immigrants, and Armenian orphans will be given to Turkish homes. During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, murders and massacres of Armenians reign in every province of Turkey. Deportation, public executions, imprisonments and massacres continue as Turks attack Musa Dagh on July 21st. Surviving Armenian deportees begin to arrive en mass in Afiyon-Karahisar, Konia, Intille, Katma, Eskishekir, Alayund and Chai.
> 48,000 Armenians are deported from Sivas
> 2,000 Armenian soldiers used as laborers are massacred near Kharput.
> Mass torture is inflicted on 500 Armenians in the prisons of Adabazar.
> Further 5,000 Armenian intellectuals are imprisoned and later slain.
> Enver reports that to date 200,000 Armenians have been slain.
> Lord Bryce reports that 500,000 Armenians have been murdered in Turkey.
> New York Times reports the murder of 350,000 Armenians.
1915 Q4 - Orphaned Armenian children are 'Turkified' in Herek and the Interior Ministry advises against opening orphanages lest they prolong Armenian lives. Global attention continued as an announcement is made in Berlin that the Armenian massacres are an Allied fabrication, while in New York, a large public gathering in the Century Theatre protests the massacres. The Turkish Embassy holds that the Armenians are guilty of treason and plans continue to deport 200,000 Armenians in Constantinople. Finally, a Government circular telegram clarifies the purpose of the deportations: annihilation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
> October 7: surviving deported Armenians is estimated at a minimum of 360,000
> The number of dead Armenians is estimated at a minimum of 800,000.
> 150,000 deportees reported in Katma living under terrible conditions, disease-wracked and starving.
> 180,000 Armenian refugees who had reached Tiflis are reported to be in dire conditions.
> Dr Schacht, a German army physician, stationed near the village of Der-el Zor, reports counting 7,000 severed Armenian heads.
1916 - The Governor-General of Aleppo informs Talaat that only 10% of Armenian deportees survived and measures to dispose of them will be taken. Continuing massacres, hardships and starvation leave large percentages of Armenian deportees dead. The Turkish government continually rejects foreign relief for Armenians. Orphans are distributed throughout various places by the Ittihad Committees, while instructions are sent to seize and kill them with the pretext of giving food. Religious pressure continues as Armenians laborers in Siva are instructed to convert to Islam. 95% refuse.
> In 47 days between January and March, 364,000 of 486,000 deportees are reported killed or dead of hardships.
> Lord Bryce reports 50,000 Armenians are reported murdered at Intille.
> Aleppo reports to the Interior Ministry that 75% of Armenian deportees in the desert are dead.
> The New York Times reports 80,000 Armenians dead of starvation around Damascus.
> 60,000 Armenian deportees are reported massacred in the Der-el-Zor area.
> Wilhelm Radowitz reports that of the 2 million Armenians in Turkey, 1.5 millions had been deported, 1,175,000 were dead with 325,000 still living.
1917 - Talaat is now Grand Vizier of Turkey. Armenian orphans continue to suffer as Halide Hanum, (a Turkish author), reports that she has received 70 orphans in order to 'Turkify' them. The Turkish government continues forced Islamization, ordering the conversion of Armenian Catholics. Ernst E. Cristoffel, a German missionary in Malatia, a witness to the massacre and deportations, estimates that 1,000,000 Armenians had been murdered, In April, Turkey breaks relations with the United States.
> Of 45,000 Armenian deportees reported living in dire conditions, 10,000 are women and the rest mainly orphans.
> 12,000 Armenian deportees are murdered in Buseira, near Der-el-Zor.
> 20,000 Armenians in Aleppo are reported to be in extreme distress.
> In April, the Turkish government orders all surviving Armenians in the Urfa district to be 'Turkified'.
1918 - Germans attempt to stop the massacre ordered by Enver to kill all Armenians in 48 hours over the age of 5 remaining in the Turkish military. Talaat announces he will grant amnesty to Armenians in Turkey upon his return from the Peace Conference at Brest-Liovsk: an immaterial gesture to pacify the Europeans as most Armenians were deported outside of Turkey, those remaining were systematically being eradicated. On May 28th, and Armenian Republic is proclaimed in Russian Transcaucasia. Talaat, Enver Jemal flee Turkey on a German freighter on November 2nd.
> 2000 remaining Armenians are massacred in Kara-Kilise in Turkey, 14,000 Armenians are condemned to hard labor to destroy the remnants.
> Nuri Pasha (Enver's younger brother) and Halil Pasha (Enver's uncle) command the Turkish forces on a 3-day massacre of 30,000 Armenian civilians in Baku.
1919 - A court martial convenes in Constantinople to address crimes of war. Major war criminal Dr. Reshid, former governor-general of Diyarbekir Province, commits suicide. Kemal Bey, chief culprit of the Yozgat massacres, is publicly hanged, sentenced to death by military tribunal. Talaat, Enver, Jemal and Dr. Nazim are condemned to death in adsentia. Mustafa Kemal begins organizing new Turkish armies to oppose the Allies and former Ittihadist leaders join forces. Francois Georges-Picot, former French High Commissioner in Syria, secretly meets with Kemal in Siva and agrees to withdraw French forces from Cilicia, leaving Armenian survivors defenseless.
> Mustafa Kemal lands at Samsun on assignment from the Ministry of War and the Grand Vizier in Constantinople as inspector-general of central Anatolia.
> May 28th, the first anniversary of independence, the public of Armenia declares the unification of Causcasian and Turkish Armenia.
1920 - The Allies and the United States formally recognize independence of Armenia, but in Marash and Hadjin, massacres continue and claim the lives of tens of thousands of Armenians. The Treaty of Sevres is signed with articles 88-89 recognising Armenia as a free and independent state. On November 22nd, American President Woodrow Wilson presents his delineation of the Armenian borders, but only a week later, Armenia is partitioned by Turkish Nationalist forces and Sovietized by Russian Bolsheviks.
> 10,000 Armenians are massacred in Marash.
> of 10,000 living in Hadjin, only 480 survive a massacre by Turkish Nationalist forces.
> According to the articles 226-230 in the Treaty of Sevres pertaining to massacres, the Turkish government promises to relinquish all documents and any persons to the Allies.
1921 - The Ottoman government abolishes the court martial's. Although Turkish court martial had condemned Talaat to death on July 11, 1919, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates him on March 15th in Berlin. Talaat's remains are later enshrined in a great ceremony on Liberty Hill in Constantinople. Between June 2nd and 3rd, Tehlirian is tried in German court and acquitted.
1922 - In Berlin, Jemal Azmi, the governor-general of Trebizond during the massacres, and Behaeddin Shakir are assassinated. Jemal Pasha, former Minister of the Marine and Fifth Army commander in Syria, is assassinated in Tiflis, Georgia. Armenians face more violence as the advance guard of Turkey enters Smyrna, pillaging and ransacking Armenian and Greek homes and stores. The Armenian Prelacy and other religious institutions are ransacked, and thousands of Armenians and Greeks are killed. Smyrna is burned and destroyed on September 13.
> In 24 hours, 50,000 houses, 24 churches, 28 schools, 5 consulates, 7 clubs, 5 banks and an unknown number of stores and warehouses are destroyed in the burning of Smyrna.
1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne is signed by Turkey and the Allies, but with no mention of Armenia or the Armenians. International recognition is extended to the new Turkish Nationalist State, and the Ottoman Empire goes out of existence. On October 29th, the Turkish Grand National Assembly with Mustafa Kemal as its President proclaims the Republic of Turkey.
1939 - August 22nd, Obersalzburg, One week before the invasion of Poland and the Start of WWII , Adolph Hitler addresses his military commanders with orders to: "Kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of Polish race or language". He concluded his remarks by saying:
"AFTER-ALL, WHO STILL TALKS NOWADAYS OF THE EXTERMINATION OF THE ARMENIANS?"