On this day in Greece

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March 15:

1832: Augustinos Kapodistrias is named Governor of Greece to serve until the arrival of the new King.
1838: By Royal decree, March 25th becomes a national holiday in Greece.
1882: Charilaos Trikoupis forms a government.
1905: Cretan revolutionaries declare Union ("Enosis") with Greece.
1926: Pavlos Kountouriotis resigns the Presidency of Greece to protest the excesses of the Theodoros Pangalos regime.
1989: Menios Koutsogiorgas resigns from the PASOK government in the aftermath of the Bank of Crete scandal.
1995: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November launch a rocket attack against the TV studios of MEGA during the evening news broadcast. There is property damage but no casualties.
2007: Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed a tripartite inter-state agreement in Athens, opening the way for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, connecting the western Black Sea with the Mediterranean.

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1900: Arthur Evans purchases the site in Crete where he believes the Minoan palace of Knossos to be.
1921: The Greek Army occupies Afyon Karahisar in Asia Minor.
1970: Polykarpos Georkadjis is assassinated in Cyprus.
1996: Theodoros Angelopoulos receives an award as the best European screen director.
2001: George Koskotas is released from prison after serving 12 years of his sentence.

Births

1952: Apostolos Kathiniotis, athlete (long jump, triple jump)
1969: Angelos Koronios, basketball player
1974: Giorgos Anatolakis, footballer

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March 21

630: Second Elevation of the Holy Cross, when Emperor Heraclius entered Jerusalem amidst great rejoicing, and together with Patriarch Zacharios (609-633), transferred the Cross of Christ with great solemnity into the temple of the Resurrection.
1916: Retreating Serbian forces land in Kerkyra.
1935: A fire destroys the city centre of Edessa.
1956: EOKA attempt to assassinate Cyprus military governor, Sir John Harding. The attempt fails as the time bomb, under the governor's bed, fails to go off.
1997: Miltiades Ewert resigns as head of the New Democracy Party

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March 22

• 1880: Charilaos Trikoupis forms a government.
• 1930: Prisoners in Greece go on strike demanding better food.
• 1949: Communists blow up the power station of Xylokastro but are slain by national forces.
• 1983: In a letter to the Police, an organisation called "Anti-terrorist Struggle" assumes responsibility for the murder of publisher Tzortzis Athanasiadis.
• 1987: Odysseus Angelis, a member of the junta of 1967-1974, is found hanged in his prison cell - a suicide.
• 1992: 20,000 Greeks demonstrate in Bonn, Germany, on the issue of Macedonia.

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March 25

• 717: Byzantine emperor Theodosius III resigns the throne after a coup by Leo the Isaurian.
• 1770: Daskaloyiannis raises the flag of revolution at Sfakia, Crete during the "Orlov Events".
• 1821: Greece declares the War of Independence against Turkey.
• 1914: The sports club of Aris Thessaloniki is founded.

Births

• 1771: Bishop Germanos of Patra who was to bless the Greek War of Independence on his 50th birthday.
• 1886: Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras.
• 1953: Christos Ardizoglou, footballer

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March 26

1821: Aigion is liberated during the Greek War of Independence

Births:

1553: Vitsentzos Kornaros, Cretan poet.
1904: Xenophon Zolotas, Greek Economist and Prime Minister.

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March 27

Events

1921: The Second Battle of Inonu commences.
1979: An earthquake in Elis prefecture causes considerable damage.
1987: The Armed Forces of Greece are placed on high alert after a series of hostile remarks by Turkish PM Turgut Ozal and the stated intention of his government to send ships into Greek territorial waters in search of petroleum.
2001: The newly-built Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport begins operations

Deaths

1938: Andreas Michalakopoulos, politician, Prime Minister

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March 28

Events

• 364: Valens is proclaimed emperor in the east. His brother, Valentinian I, retains rule over the west.
• 1821: Three days after the proclamation of the Greek Revolution, a provisional government is formed in the liberated city of Kalamata.
• 1832: Augustinos Kapodistrias is forced to resign from his post as Governor of Greece.
• 1921: During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), battles break out along the Afyon Karahisar - Eskisehir line.
• 1930: The Turkish government announces that henceforth Constantinople shall be called Istanbul. Angora is officially named Ankara.
• 1957: EOKA fighter, Stylianos Lenas, who was wounded in a firfight with British soldiers on February 17, succumbs to his wounds. He is buried without a funeral at the Imprisoned Tombs in the Central Jail of Nicosia.
• 1964: The Turkish government starts expelling ethnic Greeks. During the 1964, almost 10,000 Greeks will be forced out of Turkey.
• 1964: Saudi King Ibn Saud is ousted by his brother Faisal. He will take refuge in Greece where he will spend the rest of his life.
• 1972: Dictator George Papadopoulos becomes: Royal Regent, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and President of the Greek Parliament.
• 1994: EU representative Van der Brook asks Greek PM Andreas Papandreou to lift all the measures his government has taken against FYROM.
• 2003: Greek police put an end to the hijacking of a Turkish jet which landed at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport. All 192 passengers and 11 crew members are safe.

Deaths

• 1957: Stylianos Lenas, EOKA fighter.
• 1998: Mimis Traiforos, author, song writer, director

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March 29

Events

• 1430: The Turks, under Murad II, capture Thessaloniki.
• 1821: Livadeia joins the War of Independence under Athanasios Diakos.
• 1864: The Ionian Islands become part of Greece.
• 1919: The last of the Greek forces cross the Dniester River into Bessarabia, ending the Ukraine Expedition.
• 1941: The Battle of Cape Matapan (Cape Tainaro) takes place during World War II.
• 1956: Dorotheus is elected Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
• 1993: George Rallis resigns from the Greek Parliament in protest over the government's handling of the FYROM problem.
• 1996: The Cyprus Stock Exchange commences operations.
• 2007: A 25-year old fan is killed during riots in Athens, prior to a women's volleyball game between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.

Births

1870: Pavlos Melas, hero of the Macedonian Struggle

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Events

• 1827: The Third National Assembly elects Ioannis Kapodistrias as governor of Greece.
• 1841: The National Bank of Greece is established. Its first director is Georgios Stavrou.
• 1847: Greece recalls its Ambassador to Turkey, Emmanouil Argyropoulos.
• 1870: The bandit gang of Christos and Takos Arvanitakis kidnaps several British tourists and an Italian diplomat at Dilesi.
• 1921: The Second Battle of Inonu ends in defeat for the Greek Army.
• 1952: Communist official Nikos Beloyiannis and three companions are executed at Goudi despite the public outcry.
• 1968: Dictator George Papadopoulos adopts the slogan "Greece of Greek Christians".
• 1983: The 5-day, 40-hour work week is enacted for private industry in Greece.
• 1995: After an act by the Greek Parliament, the shipyards of Skaramanga are privatised.

Deaths

1873: Richard Church, general during the Greek War of Independence

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March 31

Events

• 1822: The massacre of Chios takes place during the Greek War of Independence. An estimated 100,000 persons are killed or sold into slavery.
• 1911: A French military delegation under Gen. Eydoux, arrives in Greece. Its task is to reform the Hellenic Army.
• 1922: During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Sultan's army join forces with the Kemalists.
• 1926: The law prohibiting short skirts is abolished in Greece.
• 1946: The first post-WW II elections are held in Greece. Stylianos Gonatas' Laiko Komma emerges victorious. The elections were boycotted by the Communist Party of Greece.
• 1947: Brig Gen A.S. Parker transfers military command of the Dodecanese islands to Vice Admiral Pericles Ioannidis of the Hellenic Navy.
• 1965: A strong earthquake (6.8 on the Richter scale) strikes Agrinio and the surrounding area.
• 1982: Composer Vangelis Papathanasiou is awarded the Oscar for the score of "Chariots of Fire".

Births

250: Constantius Chlorus, emperor and father of Constantine the Great.




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April 1

Events

• 527: Byzantine emperor Justin I makes his nephew, Justinian I, associate emperor.
• 1854: Tsamis Karatasos leads a revolt of Greeks in the Chalkidiki peninsula.
• 1900: Prince George is named High Commissioner of Crete.
• 1944: Leftist officers and troops of the Greek 1st Brigade revolt in Alexandria.
• 1947: King George II of Greece dies suddenly of a heart attack. He is succeeded by his brother King Paul.
• 1951: The Greek Parliament approves the law giving women the right to vote.
• 1955: The EOKA campaign begins in Cyprus with a proclamation from General "Digenis" and several acts of sabotage.
• 1993: A defendant is shot and wounded and his lawyer is killed, during a trial for negligent homicide. The culprit - who kills himself afterwards - is the father of the man whom the defendant killed in a traffic accident.

Deaths

• 1865: Antonios Kriezis, revolutionary, Prime Minister
• 1947: King George II of Greece.
• 1955: Modestos Panteli, EOKA fighter.
• 2004: Yiannis Kyrastas, footballer and coach

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Events

• 1453: The army of Mehmet II sets up camp outside Constantinople. The siege of the city begins.
• 1868: Dimitrios Voulgaris wins the general elections electing 114 MPs out of 184. These elections were the first in Greek history to be held within a single day.
• 1915: The Greek-American daily National Herald commences publication in New York.
• 1952: Maria Callas debuts in La Scala, Milan.
• 1993: A great fire on Skiathos burns much of the island's forested areas.

Births

• 1927: Ferenc Puskas, footballer and coach of Panathinaikos and AEK.
• 1948: Dimitris Mitropanos, singer

Deaths

• 1989: Manolis Angelopoulos, singer
• 1993: Spyros Kotzamanis, assassin of Gregoris Lambrakis.