A Chronology of Armenian Independence

The following chronology brings together major developments in Armenian statehood, national identity, and modern sovereignty.

| Date | Historical event |

| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| c. 190 BCE | Artaxias I establishes the Artaxiad kingdom |

| 95–55 BCE | Reign of Tigranes the Great |

| Early 4th century CE | Armenia adopts Christianity as a state religion, traditionally dated to 301 |

| 387 | Armenia partitioned between Roman and Sasanian spheres |

| c. 405 | Creation of the Armenian alphabet |

| 428 | Abolition of the Arsacid monarchy in Persian Armenia |

| 451 | Battle of Avarayr |

| 885 | Restoration of Armenian kingship under Ashot I Bagratuni |

| 961 | Ani becomes the Bagratid capital |

| 1045 | Byzantine annexation of Ani |

| 1198–1199 | Coronation of Leo I of Cilician Armenia |

| 1375 | Fall of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia |

| 1639 | Treaty of Zuhab helps establish the Ottoman-Persian frontier |

| 1720s | David Bek's resistance in Syunik |

| 1828 | Treaty of Turkmenchay places eastern Armenian territories under Russian rule |

| 1878 | Treaty of Berlin addresses reforms in Armenian-inhabited Ottoman provinces |

| 1885 | Founding of the Armenakan Party |

| 1887 | Founding of the Hunchakian Party |

| 1890 | Founding of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation |

| 1894–1896 | Hamidian massacres |

| 1909 | Adana massacres |

| 1915–1916 | Principal period of the Armenian Genocide |

| 1917 | Russian revolutions undermine imperial authority in the Caucasus |

| May 1918 | Battles of Sardarapat, Bash Abaran, and Karakilisa |

| May 28, 1918 | Establishment of the First Republic of Armenia |

| June 4, 1918 | Treaty of Batum |

| 1919 | Founding of Yerevan State University |

| August 10, 1920 | Treaty of Sèvres |

| November 22, 1920 | Wilson's arbitral boundary determination |

| December 1920 | Sovietization and collapse of the First Republic |

| 1921 | February Uprising; treaties of Moscow and Kars |

| 1922 | Armenia becomes part of the Transcaucasian Soviet federation and the USSR |

| 1936 | Armenian SSR becomes a separate Soviet union republic |

| 1965 | Major genocide commemoration demonstrations in Yerevan |

| 1988 | Beginning of the Karabakh Movement; Spitak earthquake |

| August 23, 1990 | Adoption of Armenia's Declaration of Independence |

| September 21, 1991 | Independence referendum |

| September 23, 1991 | Formal declaration of independence |

| October 16, 1991 | Levon Ter-Petrosyan elected president |

| December 1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union |

| March 2, 1992 | Armenia joins the United Nations |

| November 22, 1993 | Introduction of the Armenian dram |

| May 1994 | Ceasefire in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War |

| July 5, 1995 | Adoption of the Armenian Constitution |

| 1998 | Robert Kocharyan becomes president |

| October 27, 1999 | Armenian parliament shooting |

| 2008 | Serzh Sargsyan becomes president; March 1 political violence |

| 2015 | Constitutional amendments strengthen the parliamentary system |

| April–May 2018 | Velvet Revolution and election of Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister |

| September–November 2020 | Second Nagorno-Karabakh War |

| September 2022 | Major Armenia-Azerbaijan border clashes |

| September 2023 | Azerbaijani offensive and mass displacement of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians |

| 2024 | Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation developments |

| August 8, 2025 | Washington peace summit and initialing of a draft peace agreement |

| September 21, 2026 | Armenia commemorates 35 years of independence |