1925

Events

January

• January 30: Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople is deported by the Turkish government.

March

• March 10: Olympiakos Club of Fans of Piraeus is founded

May

• May 1: Cyprus was declared a Crown colony.
• May 22: Constantine VI resigns as Patriarch of Constantinople.

June

• June 24: Officers loyal to Theodoros Pangalos stage a coup. For the next two years, Pangalos will rule Greece by decree.
• June 28: The first ever Panathinaikos - Olympiakos soccer derby ends in a tie (3-3) at Leoforos

July

• July 14: Basil III is elected Ecumenical Patriarch.
• July 26: PAOK play their first football match defeating Iraklis in Thessaloniki with 2-1. The four-leaf clover, on the players' shirt, will be replaced by the two-headed eagle on 20/3/1929, when the team will merge with AEK Thessaloniki

September

• September 10: The first constitution of the Greek Republic is published and immediately goes into effect.
• September 21: Greek authorities hunt down the bandit gang of Yiangoulas and Babanis.

October

• October 6: Censorship and martial law are instituted by the Pangalos dictatorship.
• October 22: The Pangalos government in reaction to Bulgarian provocations, orders the advancement of Greek troops into Bulgarian grounds. They withdraw a week later under preassure from the League of Nations

November

• November 27: Theodoros Pangalos tries to assert his authority by holding a publicly held hanging execution; Drakakos and Zafeiropoulos were executed for embezzling public funds.

Births

January

• January 25: Giorgos Zambetas, Laiko composer and singer.

February

• February 12: Christos Samaras, EOKA fighter

March

• March 10: Manolis Anagnostakis, poet

July

• July 29: Mikis Theodorakis, music composer

October

• October 23: Manos Hadjidakis, music composer, born in Xanthi

December

• December 22: Lefteris Antoniadis, Turkish Greek footballer

Unknown

• Panos Markovits, football coach

Deaths

Unknown

• Ioannis Polemis, poet