1988 in Armenia

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See also:	Other events of 1988 List of years in Armenia

The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Armenia.

Events

February

• February 20 - The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

March

• March 9 - Gorbachev meets with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Karen Demirchyan and Kamran Baghirov in Moscow to discuss the public demands of unification of Armenia and Karabakh.^[1]

November

• November 20 - Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian Genocide.^[2]

December

• December 7 - The Leninakan or Spitak earthquake (6.9 on the Richter scale) kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.

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