09
Jun
Death of Hovhannes Avakian (June 10, 1959)
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Hovhannes Avakian was among the Armenian intellectuals who animated the cultural life of the communi...
This Week in Armenian History
02
Jun
Death of Anoushavan Ter-Ghevondian (June 6, 1961)
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Anoushavan Ter-Ghevondian was born in Tiflis (Tbilisi) on March 8, 1887. His father was Grigor Ter-G...
26
May
Birth of Vartan Mahokian (May 31, 1869)
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Painter Vartan Mahokian (also Makhokhian) excelled in marine paintings and became the best in the fi...
11
May
Birth of Neshan Krekorian (May 12, 1886)
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His name perhaps would have been forgotten to history had he not been one of the Armenian survivors ...
04
May
Death of Henrik Igitian (May 10, 2009)
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Henrik Igitian was a man who helped young talents survive in the years of socialist realism and rigi...
28
Apr
Passing of Archbishop Zareh Aznavorian (April 30, 2004)
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Archbishop Zareh Aznavorian faithfully served the Armenian Apostolic Church as an ordained celibate ...
21
Apr
Battle of Artzni (April 25, 775)
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The Arab rule in Armenia lasted for almost two and half centuries (640-886). The Arab domination, ho...
13
Apr
Death of Vagharshag Servantzdian (April 16, 1958)
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Among the so-called “five disciples” of Gomidas Vartabed, two of them lived for decades in the Unite...
06
Apr
Birth of Herbert Adams Gibbons (April 8, 1880)
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American journalist Herbert Adams Gibbons coined the phrase “The Blackest Page of Modern History” in...
31
Mar
Birth of Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926)
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Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, celebrated for his trenchant and pr...