1941

Events

January

• January 29: PM Ioannis Metaxas dies in office. He is replaced by Alexandros Korizis.

March

• March 17: The first British and New Zealand troops arrive in Greece as a German attack is deemed imminent.

April

• April 10: The hospital ship "Attica" is sunk off Cape Kafireas by Axis aircraft. Aboard the ship, captained by Dimitrios Meletopoulos, were several wounded soldiers.
• April 18: Days before Greece capitulates to the Germans, PM Alexandros Korizis commits suicide.

May

• May 20: The Battle of Crete begins.
• May 30: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas take down the German flag from the Acropolis, Athens.

June

• June 3: German occupation troops enter and destroy the village of Kandanos, Crete.

September

• September 29: The massacre of Doxato, Drama prefecture, takes place as Bulgarian occupation forces kill 350 Greek men from the town aged 16 - 50.

Deaths

January

• January 29: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek PM during World War II.

April

• April 18: Alexandros Korizis, Greek PM who succeeded Metaxas.
• April 27: Penelope Delta, writer