Stage coaches, multi-seat carriages pulled by horses and carrying both passengers and mail, began to regularly shuttle from Erivan to Tbilisi and Kutaisi.
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1918
On May 28, Yerevan was declared the capital city of the First Independent Republic of Armenia.
1959
The opening of the David of Sassoun statue (sculptor Yervand Kochar) took place in the square near the railway station.
