The founding assembly of the AGBU was convoked in Cairo by Boghos Nubar (1951-1930).
AGBU History Timeline
The first American chapter of AGBU was created in Boston and the first European chapter in Manchester.
AGBU’s Kelegian orphanage in Dortyol was opened thanks to a donation from Dikran Khan Kelegian. This was also AGBU’s first educational institution.
Catholicos Kevork V appointed AGBU president Boghos Nubar as the head of the Armenian National Delegation to Paris to negotiate with European powers and to demand reforms and administrative autonomy for Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which was approved in February 1914.
AGBU’s teacher-training institute in Van was opened.
AGBU already had 142 branches in Western Armenia, Cilicia, Europe, United States, Argentina and Africa with 8,533 members.
AGBU established the Sisvan School, later an orphanage and a camp for refugees, near Port Said, Egypt.
AGBU’s central committee created a clothing workshop for the refugees in Cairo.
The reorganization of AGBU’s chapters in Lebanon started.
AGBU’s chapters in Damascus and Aleppo were refunded and reorganized.