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Contents
Events
January
- January 7: Fanis Gekas signs for Samsunspor thus becoming the first football player from Greece to sign for a Turkish side.
- January 13: Standard & Poor's downgrades the credit rating of Cyprus by two notches pushing it into junk status.
- January 26: The Athens Stock Exchange General Index makes impressive gains of 3.93% closing at 766.23.
- January 27: Fitch cuts the credit rating of Cyprus to BBB- with a negative outlook.
February
- February 2: The House of Representatives of Cyprus rebukes UN envoy Alexander Downer over his "one-sided and detrimental statements and actions" that have eroded his credibility as an impartial facilitator in the talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
- February 3: The International Court of Justice rules that Italy "violated the immunity which Germany enjoys under international law" by allowing Greeks to sue Germany in Italian courts over WW II war crimes.
- February 7: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as private and public sector workers protest the government's plans to lower the minimum wage.
- February 10: The four Popular Orthodox Rally government members quit their posts in protest of the proposed new austerity measures.
- February 10: Unions begin a 48-hour strike throughout Greece.
- February 13: The Hellenic Parliament approves, by 199 to 74, a package of austerity measures demanded by the EU and IMF in return for a 130 billion euro bailout. Following the vote, coalition parties expel more than 40 MPs for failing to back the bill while tens of thousands violently protest in Athens and other cities across Greece.
- February 16: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu visits Cyprus marking the first time an Israeli leader has ever visited the nearby island republic.
- February 17: Armed robbers steal more than 60 artefacts from a museum in Olympia.
- February 17: The Athens Stock Exchange General Index closes at 824.26 as values rise 5.00%.
- February 21: Eurozone finance ministers agree to lend Greece 130 billion euros after 13 hours of late-night talks in Brussels.
- February 22: Fitch downgrades Greece two notches to C. In response, the Athens Stock Exchange General Index closes at 751.96 - a drop of 5.67%.
- February 23: The Hellenic parliament approves a law to write down 107 billion euros from its debt to private creditors.
- February 24: Former New Democracy MP Panos Kammenos announces the establishment of Independent Greeks - a centre-right party opposed to the EU-imposed austerity measures.
March
- March 7: APOEL become the first Cypriot club to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions' League after eliminating Lyon 4-3 on penalties. The regulation-time score was 1-0 which equalised the 0-1 loss in France.
- March 9: Greece achieves the biggest national debt writedown in history (€105 billion) as the vast majority of its private creditors sign up to a bond swap.
- March 10: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 71-70 and win the Greek Basketball Cup.
- March 11: Dimitris Chondrokoukis wins gold in the high jump in the world indoor track and field Championships in Istanbul as he clears 2.33m.
- March 13: Eleftheria Eleftheriou with the song Aphrodisiac is chosen to represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest.
- March 13: Moody's Investors Service cuts Cyprus' sovereign rating one notch to Ba1 from Baa3, pushing it to junk status.
- March 13: Fitch assigns Greece a B- rating, becoming the first major rating agency to lift the country out of default territory.
- March 14: Former PASOK MPs Louka Katseli and Haris Kastanidis announce the creation of a new political party: the Social Contract.
- March 18: Evangelos Venizelos is elected leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
- March 18: The match between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos is stopped after rowdy fans throw objects onto the pitch and set two fires in the stands. The score at the moment was 1-0 in favour of visitors Olympiakos.
- March 21: The Hellenic Parliament approves the international bailout deal by 213-79.
April
- April 4: 77-year old pensioner, Dimitris Christoulas, shoots himself dead in Syntagma Square Athens, not far from the Hellenic Parliament. Christoulas feared the austerity measures would leave him "scavenging for food in garbage cans".
- April 10: The Athens Stock Exchange General Index makes impressive gains of 3.17% closing at 730.03.
- April 10: The Panhellenic Maritime Federation (PNO) calls a 48-hour strike leaving thousands of holidaymakers stranded.
- April 11: President Karolos Papoulias proclaims national elections for May 6, 2012.
- April 11: Former Minister, Akis Tsochatzopoulos, is arrested on money laundering charges.
Deaths
January
- January 13: Lefteris Antoniadis, legendary Greek-Turkish footballer.
- January 13: Rauf Denktash, Turkish-Cypriot leader.
- January 17: Johnny Otis, Greek-American singer, musician, talent scout.
- January 20: Ioannis Kefalogiannis, politician
- January 24: Theodoros Angelopoulos, film maker
February
- February 3: Nikos Apergis, actor, politician
- February 29: Vasilis Tsivilikas, actor, comedian
March
- March 7: Smaroula Giouli, actress
- March 10: Nikos Dadinopoulos, actor
- March 10: Domna Samiou, folk singer
- March 18: Nikos Vastardis, actor
- March 29: Yiannis Banias, politician
April
- April 17: Dimitris Mitropanos, popular singer