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*[[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 its European Union peers and the International Monetary Fund for up to 45 10 billion euros ($159 billion) of urgent aid (a bailout loan) at low rates, promising new austerity measures.
*[[April 24]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Aris FC|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 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 [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] to combat the national debt. During the protests, three people die in a firebomb attack on an [[Athens]] bank.
*[[May 6]]: Greek parliament approves latest austerity bill.
*[[May 7]]: Eurozone leaders meet at a summit to stem the Greek crisis and stop the crisis from spreading.
*[[May 7]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] defeat Partizan Belgrade 83-80 to advance to the final of the Euroleague.
*[[May 9]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] fail to win the Euroleague as they lose 86-68, in the final, to Barcelona.
*[[May 9]]: The IMF unanimously approves its part of the rescue loans, with 5.5 billion euros being provided immediately.
*[[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 18]]: Greece receives a 14.5 billion euro ($18.7 billion) loan from the EU and can now repay its immediate debt.
*[[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 7]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] index plunges by 5.45% to 1,403.92 - its lowest level since February 1998.
*[[June 12]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] open their World Cup 2010 campaign with a disappointing 2-0 defeat at the hands of S. Korea.
*[[June 17]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] score their first goals and record their first win in World Cup Soccer at the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa, beating Nigeria with a score of 2-1. The goals for [[National Football Team|Greece]] were scored by [[Dimitris Salpingidis]] (becoming the first Greek ever to score at the final tournament of a Euro and a World Cup) 44' and [[Vassilis Torosidis]] 71'.
*[[June 22]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] end their World Cup 2010 campaign with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Argentina.
*[[June 24]]: A nine-year era comes to a close as [[Otto Rehhagel]] announces his retirement from the position of head coach of the Greek [[National Football Team]].
*[[June 24]]: A bomb blast at the offices of [[Minister for Public Order (Greece)|Greece's public order ministry]] in [[Athens]] kills Giorgos Vassilakis, a 50-year-old father of two and a close aide to the minister responsible for counter-terrorism, [[Michalis Chryssohoidis]].
*[[June 24]]: [[Iraklis FC]] win the right to play in the upcoming [[Football A Division|Greek Super League]] season after winning an appeal against the [[June 1]] [[EPO]] ruling that their entry papers were inadequate.
*[[June 27]]: The [[Democratic Left]] party is founded by breakaway members of [[Synaspismos]].
*[[June 29]]: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as workers once more protest the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.
===July===
*[[July 6]]: An era comes to an end as [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] president, [[Socrates Kokkalis]] sells his interests in the club to shipowner [[Vangelis Marinakis]].
*[[July 7]]: Greek parliament passes pension reform, a key requirement of the EU/IMF deal, cutting benefits, curbing widespread early retirement and raising women's retirement age from 60 to match men at 65.
*[[July 8]]: Yet another general strike takes place throughout [[Greece]].
*[[July 15]]: [[Olympiakos FC]] defeat KS Besa of Albania 5-0 in the 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League, recording their greatest ever away win in Europe.
*[[August 1]]: Temperatures in [[Cyprus]] hit an all-time August record of 46C in the shade.
*[[August 5]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] lose 1-0 to underdogs Maccabi Tel-Aviv and are eliminated from European competition.
*[[August 5]]: EU and IMF inspectors give Greece the green light for a fresh 9 billion euro tranche from the bailout.
*[[August 6]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sack coach [[Ewald Lienen]].
*[[August 7]]: [[AEK FC|AEK]] coach, [[Dusan Bajevic]], is attacked and beaten by his team's supporters after a friendly match against [[Kallithea FC]].
*[[August 11]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] play their first match under [[Fernando Santos]]: a 1-0 away win against Serbia.
*[[August 13]]: Ethnic Greek, Artistotelis Goumas, is killed in [[Chimara]], [[Northern Epirus]], by a gang of Albanians. Earlier in the day, they had argued with Goumas over his speaking Greek.
*[[August 15]]: His All-holiness [[Patriarch Bartholomew I]] officiates at a liturgy at the monastery of Panagia Soumela. The is the first liturgy at the historic monastery since [[1923]].
*[[August 16]]: PM Benjamin Netanyahu visits Greece - the first ever official state visit by an Israeli PM to Greece.
*[[August 26]]: Two Hellenic Airforce F-16 jets collide over [[Crete]] during a military exercise. One pilot is killed, two are seriously injured.
*[[August 26]]: The three clubs representing [[Greece]] - [[AEK FC|AEK]], [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] and [[Aris FC|Aris]] - all draw in their Europa League playoff games and advance to the group stage. The two clubs representing [[Cyprus]] - [[APOEL FC|APOEL]] and [[Omonia FC|Omonia]] - also draw but are eliminated.
 
===September===
*[[September 1]]: A new law comes into force in Greece banning smoking in enclosed public spaces.
*[[September 13]]: Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani beats Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich and Madonna to buy [[Skorpios]] for a reported $190 Million. It was sold to Armani by heiress, [[Athina Onassis Roussel]].
===October===
*[[October 4]]: Greece submits a 2011 draft budget to parliament pledging to cut the 2011 budget deficit faster than agreed in the IMF/EU bailout deal.
*[[October 6]]: Russian PM Dmitriy Medvedev arrives in [[Cyprus]] on an official state visit.
*[[October 8]]: [[Giorgos Karagounis]] earns his 100th cap as [[National Football Team|Greece]] defeat Latvia 1-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier.
*[[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==
===March===
*[[March 15]]: [[Sotiris Zakapidas]], footballer
*[[March 22]]: [[Stelios Tourkomenis]], footballer
 
===April===
*[[April 1]]: [[Tzannis Tzannetakis]], politician, former Prime Minister of Greece.
*[[April 11]]: [[Alekos Tzanetakos]], actor
*[[April 17]]: [[Anna Kalouta]], stage and screen actress.
 
===June===
*[[June 8]]: [[Andreas Voutsinas]], actor, drama coach and stage director
*[[July 23]]: [[Stelios Kantonias]], president of [[AE Larisa FC]] in their championship season.
===August===
*[[August 2]]: [[Giorgos Giannakopoulos]], footballer
*[[August 16]]: [[Dimitrios Ioannides]], military officer.
*[[August 22]]: [[Stjepan Bobek]], Yugoslav soccer legend (coached [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in the 1960s - early 1970s)
*[[August 25]]: [[Christos Michas]], football referee
*[[August 28]]: [[Metropolitan]] [[Avgoustinos of Florina]]
 
===September===
*[[September 7]]: [[Vasilis Christodoulou]], cartoonist, satyrist

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