YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY

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13TH CENTURY AD


St. Astvatsatsin (Katoghike) Church was founded. A chapel was erected in the place where the remains of Saint Anania were buried in the 7th century. This is now St. Zoravor (Almighty) Church on Parpetsi Street.


The Gephsiman Chapel was erected, which was destroyed in a 1697 earthquake. It was later restored, then destroyed again.

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1956


The building of the current Yerevan railway station was built in 1956, the opening took place on July 22.

782 BC


In the southeastern part of the modern capital, King Argishti I founded the fortress town of Erebuni, the capital city of the Van Kingdom (Urartu), "to show the power of the country and to frighten enemies".