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Today in Armenian history

1200 Birth of Vardan Aigektsee (writer of fables).
1724 The Russian-Turkish agreement was signed in Constantinople. Almost the whole of Transcaucasia is ceded to Turkey.
1752 Azad Khan marches against the Khanate of Yerevan.
1839 The Turkish army is overwhelmed near Nizba (northern Syria) by the Egyptian viceroy's forces.
1901 The Tsar lifts the Land Tax and the Tobacco Tax in Transcaucasia. He institutes the Spade Tax.
1903 Tsar Nicolas the Second confirms the law on the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian church properties and estates. He closes Armenian Parish Schools.
1921 Soviet Armenia declares that Artsakh is an integral part of its territory on the basis of the repeatedy expressed will of the majority of its population.
1957 Birth of Monte Melkonyan (Commander of Artsakh forces in Martooni). He died in 1993.