1821

Events

March

• March 25: Greece declares the War of Independence against Turkey.
• March 29: Livadeia joins the War of Independence under Athanasios Diakos.

April

• April 10: Patriarch Gregory V is hanged on the Central outside porte of the Patriarchate by the Turks.
• April 22: The Battle of Alamana takes place during the Greek War of Independence.
• April 26: During the Greek War of Independence, Athens is liberated by Greek forces under Dimos Antoniou.

May

• May 3: A large Turkish force is sent to Cyprus to prevent Cypriots from joining the Greek War of Independence.
• May 8: Samos, under Lycurgus Logothetis, joins the Greek War of Independence.

June

• June 14: The Greek War of Independence breaks out in Crete with an attack against Turkish positions near Loulo, Chania.
• June 23: The Turks execute Archbishop Gerasimos of Crete in retaliation for the breakout of the Greek War of Independence on the island.

July

• July 3: A Greek force under Markos Botsaris defeats the Turks at the Battle of Komboti, near Arta.
• July 9: Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus is hanged by the Turks in an attempt to intimidate the Cypriots from joining the Greek Revolution. The bishops of Paphos, Kition and Kyrenia are also executed.

August

• August 1: The first Greek newspaper, the "Greek Herald", is published in Kalamata.
• August 1: Monemvasia is liberated during the Greek Revolution.

September

• September 23: Greeks capture Tripolis during the War of Independence against Turkey

October

• October 30: The Turkish army puts an end to the Greeks' revolt in Chalkidiki.

November

• November 4: The revolting Greeks prevail over the Turkish forces at Chalandri and then take over Athens
• November 5: First lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, Sir Thomas Maitland, expels all Greek refugees to prevent residents of the islands from giving assistance to the Greek War of Independence.