The American University of Armenia's Extension Program welcomes you to this new feature on our site. We hope that this will further our educational mission outside our building in Yerevan.

Following the successful installation of the "Armenian Spelling Dictionary", we now offer a "This Day in Armenian History" program. Besides being of general interest to the public at large, this program may also be a useful pedagogical tool for students in Armenian schools of the Diaspora.

A word of caution!
Our goal is very limited. We most certainly do not pretend of have created an Armenian History Course. What we would like to do here is to stimulate your interest in events that have influenced - directly or indirectly - Armenian history. We leave it up to you to delve deeper in any particular aspect of the information that we provide. Our goal will have been reached if people will pick up a history book to obtain more information on the thumbnail sketch provided by us.

Our sources include:
In Armenian:

1. History of the Armenian People (8 volumes). Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1970-1974
2. Soviet Armenia, Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1987
3. Calendar, EDIT Publishers, 1998
   
4. Zarmik Sargissyan, Armenian National Radio.