Modern Era · Middle East · War
1915
Armenian genocide begins
April 24, 1915
On the night of April 24, Ottoman authorities rounded up Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople. What followed across Anatolia was systematic: death marches into Syrian deserts, massacres in villages, children taken. Roughly 1.5 million Armenians perished. The twentieth century had learned a new word, though it would not yet be spoken.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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