# data[].attributes.body
The Armenian people begin to form in western Asia.

# data[].attributes.body
The Armenians are converted to Christianity, becoming the first Christian nation.

# data[].attributes.body
The Armenians are conquered by Muslim Arabs.

# data[].attributes.body
The Ottoman empire adds the Armenians to their territory, making the Armenians a Christian minority in a empire of Muslims.

# data[].attributes.body
The Ottoman Emperor declares that all citizens of every religion have equal rights.

# data[].attributes.body
Sultan Abdul Hamid II ascends to the Ottoman throne. Hamid wanted to make the Ottoman Empire great again.

# data[].attributes.body
Sultan Hamid attacks his own Armenians citizens, claiming they are threatening the government's power. This lasted for 2 years and an estimated 200,000 were killed.

# data[].attributes.body
Sultan Hamid is overthrown by an anti-Armenian group, known as "the Young Turks".

# data[].attributes.body
The Young Turk political party declares that the Armenians were enemies of of the Muslims of Turkey.

# data[].attributes.body
Turkey enters WWI with the Germans. They hoped that Germany would help them defeat Russians, who held territory they wanted.

# data[].attributes.body
The offensive against Russia ended in disaster. The Armenians were blamed.

# data[].attributes.body
In Constantinople, Turkish authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian leaders. They incarcerated and killed the elite of the leaders. This marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The University of Michigan's Year of Global Engagement features events, programs, and opportunities aimed at inspiring the U-M community to explore avenues for international learning, both here on campus and around the globe.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
The Armenians were not treated well during the deportation. A vast majority died.

# data[].attributes.body
The mass deportation of Armenian people to Syria and Iraq is ordered.

# data[].attributes.body
On Mt. Moses, a large group of Armenians defend themselves from the Turkish government. After 53 days of fighting, over 4,000 Armenians escape to Egypt.

# data[].attributes.body
Britain, France, and Russia declare they will hold the people in the Turkish government personally responsible for the crimes committed against the Armenians.

# data[].attributes.body
After the war is lost, trials are held by Turkish war-crime courts to decide if the Turkish government is guilty of crimes against humanity. The biggest Turkish officials are sentenced to death, and lesser officials were imprisoned. The crime committed would later become known as genocide.

# data[].attributes.body
Former war hero, Kemal Ataturk, rose to power and formed a Turkish Republic. With his power, he released all who were imprisoned during the 1919 trials.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
WWI is officially ended by the treaty of Lausanne. 

# data[].attributes.body
After WWI, the Armenians are greatly forgotten. There is no support for an Independent Armenia, and there is no recognition that the Armenian people need compensation for the crimes committed against them.

# data[].attributes.body
Russia forms a dedicated area near Turkey for its Armenian citizens. This area would later become the country of Armenia.

# data[].attributes.body
The United Nations releases a report that estimates over 1 million Armenians died during the genocide.