1900

Contents

Events

January

• January 5: The city of Piraeus gets electric lighting.

February

• February 12: The Maritime Hospital of Piraeus is founded.

March

• March 16: Arthur Evans purchases the site in Crete where he believes the Minoan palace of Knossos to be.

April

• April 1: Prince George is named High Commissioner of Crete.

May

• May 13: Sotiris Versis breaks the Greek record in the shot put with 11.49m.

June

• June 15: Stadiou, Ermoi Aeolou and Philellinon streets in Athens were gaslit.

September

• September 7: Almost 100 persons die as the steamship "Sarkia" sinks off Andros.

Births

February

• February 19: Giorgos Seferis, poet

March

• March 10: Pantelis Pouliopoulos, communist leader

December

• December 17: Katina Paxinou, actress

Unknown

• Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, banker, Prime Minister
• Fotis Giagoulas, notorious bandit
• Yiannis Andrianopoulos, football player and coach

Deaths

May

• May 11: Archbishop Sofronios III of Cyprus.

Unknown

• Dimitrios Bayraktaris, Athens chief of police