1849
Contents
Events
February
- February 3: King Otto awards the Gold Cross medal to poet Dionysios Solomos.
August
- August 19: A revolt against British rule with the aim of union with Greece is put down by the British in Kefallonia.
September
- September 2: 40 Greeks are hanged by the British in Kefallonia for the revolt of August 19.
Deaths
January
- January 22: Panoutsos Notaras, politician - at the age of 109!
September
- September 25: Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, better known as "Nikitaras", revolutionary
