CatastropheThe 1910s

Catastrophe in the 1910s

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1910s, tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
1915
Latest
1915

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. — Asia:

    Armenia

    The Armenian Genocide

    From 24 April 1915 the Ottoman Young Turk government deported and massacred the empire's Armenian population in death marches toward the Syrian desert; widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, with deaths estimated from roughly 600,000 to as many as 1.5 million.

    Era: Empires, the Genocide and the First Republic

    Sources: The Armenian Genocide (1915–16): In Depth · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Armenian Genocide · Encyclopædia Britannica