YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY

11TH CENTURY AD


City became an important trading center, directly connected to Ani, Armenia's capital city at the time. Prince Apirat ordered the construction of the Mamri irrigation channel (1031).


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1874


Yerevan's first publishing house opened. It belonged to Zahariya Gevorkyan.

1991


Vladimir Lenin's monument was dismantled, prior to the independence of Armenia. The statue was erected in 1940.