This Week in Armenian History
Death of Bertha Morley (March 22, 1973)
An American educator and relief worker, Bertha B. Morley headed schools and orphanages in the Ottoma...
Birth of Mesrovb J. Seth (March 15, 1871)
Mesrovb Jacob Seth (Setiants) was a pioneering scholar of the history of Armenians in India who also...
Opening of the Yerevan Subway (March 7, 1981)
The Karen Demirchian Yerevan Subway, colloquially known as the Yerevan Metro, seems to have been aro...
Birth of André Mandelstam (March 6, 1869)
André Mandelstam was involved in the program of Armenian reforms before the Genocide, and he also be...
Birth of Bohdan Gebarski (February 27, 1905)
In the 1960s, when claims for justice were still uncommon, a voice came from Poland to advocate for ...
Death of Louis Dartige du Fournet (February 16, 1940)
Louis Dartige du Fournet was the French officer who completed the epic resistance of Musa Dagh by re...
Death of Patriarch Hovhannes Golod (February 13, 1741)
Patriarch Hovhannes Golod portrayed in a miniature as he teaches, according to manuscript 2647-92 of...
Birth of Arshak Ter-Mikelian (February 1, 1864)
Arshak Ter-Mikelian was a prominent Armenian lay theologian of the late nineteenth century. He ...
Death of Aharon Dadourian (January 31, 1965)
Aharon Dadourian, who frequently signed with his first name, was a poet who started his career in th...
Death of James Bryce (January 22, 1922)
British statesman and scholar Lord James Bryce was one of the main pro-Armenian forces in Great Brit...