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Events
March
- March 30: The bandit gang of Christos and Takos Arvanitakis kidnaps several British tourists and an Italian diplomat at Pikermi.
April
- April 6: Greek soldiers attack the Arvanitakis gang. Four British and Italian hostages are killed. This event goes down in history as the Massacre at Dilesi.
July
- July 22: The government of Thrasivoulos Zaimis resigns on account of the botched Massacre at Dilesi affair.
- July 22: Epameinondas Deligeorgis forms a government.
December
- December 15: Alexandros Koumoundouros forms a government.
Births
March
- March 29: Pavlos Melas, hero of the Macedonian Struggle
June
- June 14: Queen Sophie of Greece.
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- Makarios II, Archbishop of Cyprus
