1901
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Events
April
- April 6: Alexandros Touferis breaks the Greek record in the triple jump at 13.16m.
August
- August 17: Archaeologist Ch. Tsountas announces the discovery of a neolithic settlement in Sesklo, near Volos.
October
- October 20: Daily "Acropolis" finishes its publication of the Bible, translated into Modern Greek.
November
- November 5: Students ransack the offices of Athens daily "Acropolis" in protest over the newspaper's publication of the Bible translated into modern Greek. The events surrounding the Bible's translation in 1901 would go down in history as "Ta Evangelika" (Evangelical Events).
- November 8: During the "Evangelical Events", a student demonstration, by the temple of Olympian Zeus, turned bloody with 8 deaths.
- November 24: The National Theater (Royal Theater at the times) is established on St. Constantine Street in Athens
Births
July
- July 9: Konstantinos Kallias, politician
September
- September 2: Andreas Empirikos, writer.
October
- October 23: I.M. Panagiotopoulos, writer and philosopher
November
- November 4: Spyros Marinatos, archaeologist
December
- December 14: King Paul of Greece
Unknown
- Constantine Kollias, Junta-appointed PM of Greece
Deaths
January
- January 4: Nikolaos Gyzis, painter.
November
- November 23: Ioannis Kambysis, writer