1920 December 2: Treaty of Alexandropol.Soviet Armenia and the Armenian diaspora (1920–1991) Īrmenian Communist leader Aghasi Khanjian and "the main poet of the 20th century" Yeghishe Charents were among those who fell victim to the Great Purge. 1920 November 29: Soviet army invades Armenia, end of Armenian independence.1920 November 22: US President Woodrow Wilson signs the arbitral award, establishing the border between Turkey and Armenia, Western Armenia de jure part of the Republic of Armenia.1920 November 7: Turks capture Alexandropol.1920 September 29: Turks capture Sarikamish.1919 July 5: Turkish Courts-Martial sentenced Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, Djemal Pasha Nazım Bey to death.1919 May 28: United Armenia proclaimed in Yerevan.1919 January 29: Aram Manukian, the founder of the Republic of Armenia, dies in Yerevan.1919 January Republic of Armenia establishes de facto control over former Kars Oblast after the Ottomans retreat.1918 November 13: Allied Occupation of Constantinople begins.1918 May 28: Republic of Armenia declared by the Armenian National Council in Tiflis.1918 May 26: Ottoman armies stopped at the Battle of Sardarabad.įirst Republic of Armenia (1918–1920).1918 March 3: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Bolshevik Russia, Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire.1917 December 5: Armistice of Erzincan between Bolshevik Russian and the Ottoman Empire.1917 November 7: Bolshevik rule established in Russia.1917 February 23: Russian Revolution begins, Russian forces start to retreat.1916 April 15: Russians capture Trebizond.
1916 February: Russians capture Erzurum.