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Events on Wednesday 14 April 1909 1
1909Adana massacreMass killing of Armenians in Ottoman CiliciaBeginning on 14 April 1909, mobs and irregular troops killed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Armenians and Assyrians in and around Adana in the Ottoman Empire. The violence erupted amid political instability following the Young Turk countercoup and continued for roughly two weeks. It is regarded as a major precursor to the Armenian Genocide of 1915.