YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
1935
The Yerevan Botanical Garden was founded.
Botanical Park was founded by E. Ghazaryan. Nowadays it occupies 80 ha but before it occupied 105 ha. The garden is 1200-1250 meters high above sea level. It is situated in the semi desert zone of the sharp continental climate. It belongs to the National Academy of RA and includes a research Institute, which makes a great number of researches. Here you can see species of trees and shrubs not only from all the regions of Armenia, but also from Caucasus, North America, China, Korea and the Far East. One section of the Botanical Gardens represents the species of flowers. There are about 1100 species.
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1921
On 9 September 1919, the National Assembly of Armenia founded the History Museum of Armenia. The museum opened to visitors on August 20, 1921. Its first director was Yervand Lalayan.
2019
On August 15, Square of the Republic of Argentina has been opened in Yerevan at the junction of Sayat-Nova avenue and Charents street.
