1911

Events

January

• January 30: Anorthosis Famagusta FC is founded.

February

• February 12: A number of professors from the University of Athens petition Parliament to declare the Katharevousa version of the Greek language as the one and only official language of the Greek state.
• February 26: Serious debates take place on the matter of the Greek language. Writer/MP Lorentzos Mavilis states in Parliament: "there is no vulgar language. Only vulgar people". University students protest against poet Kostis Palamas' strong pro-Demotic stand.

March

• March 31: A French military delegation under Gen. Eydoux, arrives in Greece. Its task is to reform the Hellenic Army.

April

• April 4: A major earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) strikes Thera and the surrounding area.
• April 9: Kostis Palamas is suspended for a month by the University of Athens for his defence of the Demotic version of the Greek language.
• April 11: An English military delegation arrives in Greece. Its task is to reform the Hellenic Navy.

September

• September 1: The Battleship Georgios Averof is commissioned by the Hellenic Navy.

October

• October 6: Grevena Metropolitan Aimilianos goes missing during a tour.

November

• November 7: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople closes all churches until the persecution of Christians stops.

Births

July

• July 29: Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America.

October

• October 23: Antonis Migiakis, football player and coach.

November

• November 2: Odysseus Elytis, Nobel prize winning poet, born in Heraklion, Crete

December

• December 14: Georgios Ivanof, athlete, hero of the resistance.
• December 18: Eleni Vlachos, newspaper publisher

Deaths

January

• January 3: Alexandros Papadiamantis, writer.

November

• November 3: Constantine Christomanos, poet, writer, innovator of the Greek theatrical scene