Armenian genocide
Deportations and massacres destroyed Anatolia's Armenians
On 24 April 1915 hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested in Constantinople. The Young Turk government then began mass deportations of Armenians to the Syrian desert; columns perished from killings, hunger and disease. By various estimates 600,000 to 1.5 million died. Many states and most historians recognise it as genocide; Turkey rejects that characterisation.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 1 year earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 3 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 5 years later
- 1939–1945 World War II — 24 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 10 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 4 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 13 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 18 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 21 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 2 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 2 years later
- 1917 February Revolution — 2 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 14 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 21 years later
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 18 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 11 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 7 years later
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 20 years later
Asia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 19 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 4 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 8 years later
- 1931 China floods — 16 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 19 years later
Americas
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 2 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 1 year earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 1 year earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 14 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 22 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 22 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 4 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 3 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 68)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 59)
- Marie Curie (aged 48)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 46)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 45)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 44)
- Winston Churchill (aged 41)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 37)
- Albert Einstein (aged 36)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 34)