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*[[December 15]]: Anti-austerity protests in [[Athens]] turn bloody as MP [[Kostis Hadjidakis]] is attacked and beaten by protesters as he leaves the Parliament building.
 
*[[December 15]]: Anti-austerity protests in [[Athens]] turn bloody as MP [[Kostis Hadjidakis]] is attacked and beaten by protesters as he leaves the Parliament building.
 
*[[December 30]]: A bomb explodes in front of the Greek embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing material damage but no injuries, police say.
 
*[[December 30]]: A bomb explodes in front of the Greek embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing material damage but no injuries, police say.
*[[December 30]]: A powerful explosion wrecks several cars in central [[Athens]], but no one was hurt according to police.
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*[[December 30]]: A powerful explosion wrecks several cars and damages a courthouse and nearby buildings in central [[Athens]], but no one was hurt according to police.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:10, December 30, 2010

Events

January

February

March

April

  • April 8: Athanassios Lerounis, a Greek national kidnapped by the Taliban eight months ago in Pakistan is released. He was abducted while based in the northern district of Chitral, where he worked as the curator of a heritage museum for several years.
  • April 11: The eurozone maps out a plan to lend Greece 30 billion euros in 2010, at a rate of five percent.
  • April 22: The EU sharply increases Athens' 2009 public deficit estimate to 13.6 percent. Moody's cuts Greece's sovereign debt rating a notch from A2 to A3, sparking market panic.
  • April 23: Greece asks for up to 45 billion euros of urgent aid at low rates, promising new austerity measures.
  • April 24: Panathinaikos defeat Aris Thessaloniki 1-0 in the final of the Greek Football Cup to complete their domestic double.
  • April 27: Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign debt to junk status and cuts Portugal and Spain's credit ratings. European stock exchanges tumble.

May

  • May 1: Violent protests against proposed austerity measures take place throughout Greece.
  • May 2: Athens announces a drastic austerity programme. Eurozone members and the IMF agree to a €110bn (£95bn; $146.2bn) three-year bail-out package to rescue Greece's embattled economy.
  • May 3: The European Central Bank suspends benchmark criteria for lending to Greek banks.
  • May 5: Greece is paralysed by a general strike as workers protest the austerity measures proposed by PM Papandreou to combat the national debt. During the protests, three people die in a firebomb attack on an Athens bank.
  • May 7: Eurozone leaders meet at a summit to stem the Greek crisis and stop the crisis from spreading.
  • May 7: Olympiakos defeat Partizan Belgrade 83-80 to advance to the final of the Euroleague.
  • May 9: Olympiakos fail to win the Euroleague as they lose 86-68, in the final, to Barcelona.
  • May 10: The Athens Stock Market index rises by 9.13% to 1,779.30.
  • May 14: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in Athens, on an official state visit, accompanied by ten cabinet ministers.
  • May 17: Deputy Minister for Tourism, Angela Gerekou, resigns over a press revelation that her husband, singer Tolis Voskopoulos, owes more than €5 million in back taxes and fines.
  • May 25: Newly-elected Turkish-Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, meets for the first time with President Dimitris Christofias as the Cyprus talks continue where they left off before the Turkish-Cypriot elections.

June

July

August

September

October

  • October 6: Russian PM Dmitriy Medvedev arrives in Cyprus on an official state visit.
  • October 8: Giorgos Karagounis earns his 100th cap as Greece defeat Latvia 1-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier.
  • October 8: Yiannis Okkas becomes the first Cypriot to earn 100 caps as Cyprus lose 2-1 to Norway in a Euro 2012 qualifier.
  • October 11: Policeman, Epaminondas Korkoneas, is found guilty, by a court in Amfissa, of intentionally shooting 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6, 2008. He is sentenced to life imprisonment. A second policeman, Vasilis Saraliotis, is convicted of complicity and receives a 10-year sentence.
  • October 11: Cypriot Christopher Pissarides wins a share of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.
  • October 14: Cypriot President, Dimitris Christofias, and Turkish-Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, attend a ceremony opening the Limnitis crossing point in NW Cyprus.
  • October 20: Reversing one of the most infamous court decisions in Greek history, the Supreme Court posthumously acquits six top politicians and soldiers executed nearly 90 years ago for a crushing military defeat that indelibly marked modern Greece. The six - who included three ex-prime ministers (Petros Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Stratos and Dimitrios Gounaris) and a former general-in-chief - were convicted of high treason in 1922, amid a wave of popular discontent after Greece lost the 1919-1922 war against Turkey. The Supreme Court judges accepted evidence for the defense that was not available at the 1922 court martial, and reversed the guilty verdict.
  • October 26: The European Court on Human Rights awards 19 Cypriots the sum of €15,001,498 as compensation for denial, by Turkey, of use and enjoyment of their property in the occupied north.

November

  • November 2: The company that publishes Athens daily Apogevmatini files for bankruptcy.
  • November 3: Greece suspends international airmail for 48 hours after more than 10 suspicious packages are sent to targets within Greece and across Europe.
  • November 7: The first round of local elections are held throughout Greece. They are marked by indifference as a record-breaking 40% of the electorate stay away from the polls.
  • November 8: A Greek bus, on the Tirana-Ioannina line, crashes in Albania. The accident results in nine deaths.
  • November 14: The second round of local elections is held throughout Greece. Giorgos Kaminis is elected mayor of Athens, Yiannis Boutaris prevails in Thessaloniki while Vasilis Michaloliakos is elected in Piraeus. 54% of the electorate stay away from the polls setting a negative record for the post-1974 era.
  • November 15: Panathinaikos sack coach Nikos Nioplias after a string of disappointing League results.
  • November 20: Former Porto and Malaga coach Jesualdo Ferreira signs a one-and-a-half year contract with Panathinaikos.
  • November 26: To Vima newspaper says it is ending its printed daily edition due to declining readership, as the country's debt crisis takes a growing toll on the media sector. An editorial said online visitors had far outnumbered newsstand buyers — selling 8,000 print issues Thursday, while receiving 82,000 online visitors.

December

  • December 1: Aris Thessaloniki defeat Atletico Madrid 3-2 and become the first Greek club to win a European competition match on Spanish soil. AEK also win away 3-1 v. Hajduk Split.
  • December 6: Three injured, 40 detained in Athens in clashes between Greek youth and police in a series of rallies to mark the second anniversary of the fatal police shooting of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
  • December 14: The eighth edition of the Match Against Poverty is held in Greece. Zidane and Ronaldo's All-Stars draw 2-2 against Olympiakos with the proceeds going to combat poverty in Haiti and Pakistan.
  • December 15: Anti-austerity protests in Athens turn bloody as MP Kostis Hadjidakis is attacked and beaten by protesters as he leaves the Parliament building.
  • December 30: A bomb explodes in front of the Greek embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing material damage but no injuries, police say.
  • December 30: A powerful explosion wrecks several cars and damages a courthouse and nearby buildings in central Athens, but no one was hurt according to police.

Deaths

January

February

March

April

June

July

August

September

October

November

December