03
Mar
Birth of Babken Harutiunian (March 4, 1941)
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Historian Babken Harutiunian had a prolific career as researcher and educator, and made important st...
This Week in Armenian History
23
Feb
Death of Yervand Lalayan, (February 24, 1931)
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Yervand Lalayan belonged to a generation of scholars who, starting in the mid-nineteenth century, wa...
17
Feb
Foundation of the Aramian School of Tabriz (February 19, 1851)
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In the late fourth century A.D., after the partition of Armenia between Byzantium and Persia, the Ar...
10
Feb
Death of Heraclius I (February 11, 641)
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Heraclius was one of the remarkable emperors of the first centuries of Byzantium. According to some ...
03
Feb
DEATH OF HOVHANNES GRIGORIAN (FEBRUARY 7, 2013)
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In the second of the 1960s, following the renovation of Armenian poetry heralded by Paruyr Sevak, a ...
27
Jan
Death of Stepanos Agontz (January 29, 1824)
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The third abbot of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Venice after Mekhitar of Sebastia, Stepanos Agont...
20
Jan
Foundation of the Sundukian Academic Theater (January 25, 1921)
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Yerevan inherited a gallery of state-owned theaters from Soviet times. The Sundukian National Academ...
13
Jan
Birth of Vano Khojabekian (January 14, 1875)
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Like writer Gabriel Sundukian with his plays, Vano Khojabekian, a self-taught artist, left a visual ...
30
Dec
Death of Jim Torosian (January 5, 2014)
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Jim Torosian was the chief architect of Yerevan in the 1970s and one of the creators of its contempo...
23
Dec
Death of Georgy Yakulov (December 28, 1928)
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Georgy Yakulov (Yakulian) had a brief life but was an influential artist in Russia in the 1910s and ...