Bagratids
Dynasty (Bagratuni)
Third period of independence
885-890 - Ashot I
890-914 -
Sembat I
914-929 -
Ashot II, "of Iron"
921 - Ashot,
the Usurper
929-953 -
Abas
953-977 -
Ashot III, "the Merciful"
977-989 -
Sembat II, the Conqueror
989-1020 -
Gagik I (Shahenshah)
1020-1042 -
Sembat III or Hovhannes Sembat
1020-1042 -
Ashot IV
1042-1045 -
Gagik II (died 1079 at Cyzistra) - Surrender
and sale of the city of Ani.
1045-1064 -
Byzantine domination
1047 - Second
invasion by Seljukides. City of Ani Captured
Kingdom
of Vaspurakan (Ardzruni)
914-937 - Katchik-Gagik
937-953 - Derenik-Ashot
953-972 - Abousahl-Hamazasp
972-983 - Ashot-Sahak
983-1003 - Gourgen-Khatchik
1003 - Seneqerim-Hovannes
(died 1026)
1027-1037 -
David, at Sivas
1037-1080 - Atom,
at Sivas
1037-1080 -
Abousahl, at Sivas
Kingdom
of Kars
962-984 - Mushegh
984-989 -
Abas
1029-1064 -
Gagik (died in Greece 1080)
Kingdom
of Armenian Albania
David
died 1046
1046-1082 - Koriké
The
Principality and Kingdom of Cilicia (1080)
Fourth period of independence
Roupenian
Dynasty
1.
Barons
1080-1095 - Roupen I
1095-1099 - Constantine I, The Crusaders
in Armenia
1099-1129 - Theros I
1129-1137 - Leon I, died 1141 in Constantinople
1137-1145 -
Rule of the Byzantines
1145-1169 -
Thoros II
1170-1175 -
Mleh - Prince of Cilicia
1175-1187 -
Roupen II
1187-1196 -
Leon II (Levon), then as King Leon I 1196-1219
2.
Kings & Queen
1196-1219 - Leon I (crowned 1199)
1219-1252 - Queen Zabel
1222-1225 - Philip
Hetoumian
Dynasty (Kings)
1226-1270 - Hetoum I
1270-1289 - Leon II
1289-1297 - Hetoum II
1293-1295 - Thoros
1296-1298 -
Sembat
1298-1299 -
Constantin I
1301-1307 -
Leon III
1308-1320 -
Oshin
1320-1342 -
Leon V
Lusignan
Dynasty (Kings)
1342-1344 - Guy de Lusignan or Constantin
II
1344-1363 - Constantin III
1363-1365 - Leon IV
1365-1373 - Constantin IV
1374-1375 - Leon VI, Died in Paris, 1393
End of the Cilician Kingdom
End
of 14th c. to 17th c. - A period of impoverishment
& decadence in Armenian Culture.
End of 14th c. - Tamburlaine invades Armenia
1512
- First Armenian book printed,
in Venice.
Mid
15th c.-1585 - Ottomans & Iranian
Safarids Dynasty fought for dominion over
Anatolia & the Caucasian region
1585
-Ottomans succeeded in annexing
the eastern part of Armenia as far as the
Caucasus.
1602-1620 - Armenians deported from Julfa
(Djugh) to Isfahan (New Julfa) by king Shah
Abbas I of Persia, (100,000 people).
Liberation
Movements - The start of the "Armenian question"
1677-1711 - Israel Ori: independence struggle
1715
- The Mekhitarist Fathers in Venice
1722-1730 - Davit' Bek fights the Ottomans
1762-1796 - Attempts by General Hovsep'
(Joseph) Emin & Archbishop Hovsep' Arghut'ian
to form an anti-Islamic coalition between
Gorgia, Russia & the Armenians failed.
1828
- The treaty of Turkmencay - Eastern
Armenia annexed by Russia under the rule of
Czar Paul I.
1839
- Tanzimat movement, promoted by
Sultan Mahmud II as a stimulus and program
for an approach by the Ottoman Empire to the
Western culture.
1840-1880 - The Reawakening (Zart'onk)
- Expansion of schools and attempts to set
up the periodical press. Abolition of clerical
monopoly over culture. Changes in the day
to day lifestyle. New merchant classes emerged
along with professional people, artisans and
above all a new class of intellectuals.
1885-1890 - The founding of the three main
Armenian political parties: Armenakan
(1885, Armenian); Hntchakian (1887,
socialist); and Dashnaktsakan (1890).
1893-1894 - Arrests and most atrocious
treatments were being carried out by the Ottoman
Turks against the Christians (Armenians).
Heavy taxes were imposed, hundreds of Armenian
civilians were cast into Turkish prisons,
stripped of their clothes and tortured in
the most diabolical manner. A new low by the
Turkish gov. saw the word "Armenia"
stricken out of every book. Rights to worship
the Christian religion was suppressed. Many
more restrictions and laws were put forth
to further suppress the Christian communities
in the Turkish empire.
1908
- The Ramkavar political
party was founded and few years later the
Armenian Communist Party.
1894
onward - Massacres of Armenians
at Sassun, Trebizond, Erzrum, Harput, Antab,
Marash, Urfa, Bitlis
and many other Armenian towns and surrounding
villages.
1908-1909 - The "Young Turk" Regime came
to power in Turkey - Sultan Abdul-Hamid was
deposed and exiled to Salonika
1915-1918 - World
War I - Over 1.5 million Armenians were
massacred and deported out of their homeland
by the Turkish Government.
May
28, 1918 - Sardarabat battle (Independence
Day) and the establishment of the First
Republic of Armenia (1918-1920)
1920
- Treaty of Sèvres
1920-1991 - Soviet Armenian Republic
The
New Independent Republic of Armenia
September 21, 1991 - Independence day
- The establishment of the second Republic
of Armenia
October 16, 1991 - Levon
Ter-Petrosian elected first President
of the Republic of Armenia
April
1998 - Robert
Kocharyan was elected the second President
of the Republic of Armenia
