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*[[August 14]]: The Eurozone emerges from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction. Across the bloc, GDP grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2013, slightly ahead of forecasts. In Greece, GDP shrank by 4.6%. | *[[August 14]]: The Eurozone emerges from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction. Across the bloc, GDP grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2013, slightly ahead of forecasts. In Greece, GDP shrank by 4.6%. | ||
*[[August 21]]: [[Hellenic Public Television]] ([[EDT]]) broadcasts live for the very first time. | *[[August 21]]: [[Hellenic Public Television]] ([[EDT]]) broadcasts live for the very first time. | ||
+ | *[[August 27]]: The [[Athens Stock Exchange]] General Index closes at 881.35 after losses of 4.08%. | ||
==Deaths== | ==Deaths== |
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Contents
Events
January
- January 2: The Athens Stock Exchange starts the new year in good fashion as the General Index closes at 941.26 after gains of 3.67%.
- January 4: The elections for the Presidency of Cyprus are officially proclaimed. The first round will be held on February 17 with the runoff - if necessary - being held one week later.
- January 10: Moody's downgrades Cyprus' government bond rating by three notches: from B3 to Caa3.
- January 20: A time bomb goes off at "The Mall" shopping centre in Maroussi.
- January 26: Athens Metro workers return to work after a 10-day strike.
- January 31: Kostas Filippidis breaks the Greek indoor and overall record in the pole vault with a jump of 5.83m.
February
- February 9: Nikoletta Kyriakopoulou breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the pole vault, at Donetsk, Ukraine, with 4.60m.
- February 10: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.
- February 17: In the Cyprus presidential elections, Nikos Anastasiades, the head of conservative DISY, receives 45.46% of the vote and advances to the runoff against AKEL candidate Stavros Malas who ends up with 26.91% barely edging out Giorgos Lillikas of EDEK.
- February 20: Major unions in Greece stage a 24-hour general strike.
- February 24: Nikos Anastasiades defeats Stavros Malas in the Cyprus runoff election and is elected President. Anastasiades polls 57.48% against 42.52% for Malas.
- February 27: Former Thessaloniki mayor, Vasilis Papageorgopoulos, is sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement of public money.
- February 28: Nikos Anastasiades is installed as President of the Republic of Cyprus.
March
- March 4: Former Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos is sentenced to eight years in jail and a €520,000 fine for failure to disclose certain assets during his term as MP.
- March 4: PM Antonis Samaras meets with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul and sign 25 bilateral pacts.
- March 10: Olympiakos clinch their 40th football championship with a 3-0 home win against AEK.
- March 16: Eurozone finance ministers agree a €10 billion bailout package for Cyprus. Bank depositors race to withdraw their money as the terms include a haircut on their accounts: Those with deposits of more than 100,000 euros are to be charged 9.9% and those with less 6.75% of their deposits.
- March 19: The Cyprus House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejects the terms of the EU bailout package. 36 MPs vote "no" while 19 DISY members abstain.
- March 21: Standard and Poor's downgrades the sovereign rating of Cyprus from CCC+ to CCC.
- March 22: The Cyprus House of Representatives approves nine bills to raise €5.8 billion in order to receive bailout aid from the EU.
- March 25: Eurozone finance ministers agree terms with Cyprus for a €10 billion bailout package. Under the terms - which focus on the Popular Bank - all accounts under €100,000 will be guaranteed while those above that amount will receive a "haircut".
- March 28: Banks reopen in Cyprus after nearly two weeks of being shut. Restrictions are imposed on transactions and the flow of capital.
- March 31: Panathinaikos sack coach Fabri Gonzalez after a disappointing 0-1 loss to Platanias.
April
- April 14: Dimitris Koutsoumbas is announced as the new chairman of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), succeeding Aleka Papariga.
- April 14: Fans go amok at the OAKA Stadium after an own-goal by Mavroudis Bougaidis, in the 88th minute of play, puts AEK 1-0 down to Panthrakikos. The referee is forced to abandon the game, condemning AEK to certain relegation to the B Division for the first time in history.
- April 22: Akis Tsochatzopoulos, goes on trial for kickbacks and money laundering related to arms procurements whilst he was Defence Minister.
- April 28: The Hellenic Parliament passes by 168 to 123 an "Omnibus" bill that, among other things, will give the government the power to dismiss 15,000 previously-tenured civil servants.
- April 30: The Cyprus House of Representatives approves by 29 to 27 the bailout agreement ("memorandum") with international creditors.
May
- May 5: Cyprus President, Nikos Anastasiades, visits Israel and holds talks with PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
- May 10: Kostas Filippidis wins the gold medal in the pole vault, at the Diamond League, in Doha, Qatar, with a 5.82m jump, setting a new outdoor Greek record.
- May 10: Olympiakos BC defeat CSKA Moscow 69-52 and qualify for the Euroleague final in London.
- May 11: Olympiakos defeat Asteras Tripolis 3-1 (aet) to win the Greek Football Cup.
- May 12: Olympiakos BC defeat Real Madrid 100-88 to win the Euroleague for the second year in a row.
- May 15: Fitch upgrades its sovereign credit rating for Greece to B- from CCC.
- May 16: PM Antonis Samaras meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.
- May 22: Apollon defeat AEL 2-1 in extra time to win the all-Limassol final of the Cyprus Football Cup.
June
- June 2: Katerina Nikolaidou wins the lightweight women's single sculls at the 2013 European Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain.
- June 7: The stockholders of AEK FC declare bankruptcy.
- June 11: PM Antonis Samaras shuts down ERT. Broadcasts are immediately shut down.
- June 12: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 76-72 and are crowned basketball champions of Greece. The match was interrupted 1 minute 27 seconds from time by supporters of Olympiakos who fired fireworks at the bench of Panathinaikos.
- June 18: The Conseil d' Etat orders ERT broadcasts to resume but uphold's PM Antonis Samaras' right to eventually shut it down.
- June 20: Fotis Kouvelis' Democratic Left party pulls out of the coalition government of Greece in protest over the closure of ERT.
- June 25: A reshuffled cabinet consisting only of New Democracy and PASOK members is sworn in. The reshuffle was necessitated due to the departure of the Democratic Left from the governing coalition.
- June 29: Louis Tsatoumas wins gold at the Mediterranean Games of Mersin, Turkey, in the long jump, with 8.14m.
July
- July 9: The Larnaca Criminal Court finds four former senior officials – including ex-Defence Minister Costas Papacostas – guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2011 Mari Naval Base blast that killed 13 people.
- July 10: Greek Public Television goes back on the air after nearly a month. The government had shut down the former public broadcasting company - ERT - to cut costs.
- July 14: The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is merged into a single political party. Alexis Tsipras is elected its leader with 74% of the vote.
- July 18: The Hellenic Parliament enacts an Omnibus reform bill by 153 votes out of 293 present. The bill provides for a new round of lay-offs and wage cuts in the public sector as well as the dissolution of the municipal police.
- July 20: Kostas Douvalidis breaks the Greek record in the 110m hurdles with a time of 13.34.
August
- August 2: Civil servants protest, throughout Greece, the planned mass layoff of teachers, hospital workers and other public servants.
- August 7: An earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, destroys hundreds of homes in the Phthiotis prefecture of Greece.
- August 8: PM Antonis Samaras meets with US president Obama in Washington, DC.
- August 10: Migrants riot at Amygdaleza detention centre. Ten Greek officers are injured before calm is restored.
- August 14: The Eurozone emerges from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction. Across the bloc, GDP grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2013, slightly ahead of forecasts. In Greece, GDP shrank by 4.6%.
- August 21: Hellenic Public Television (EDT) broadcasts live for the very first time.
- August 27: The Athens Stock Exchange General Index closes at 881.35 after losses of 4.08%.
Deaths
January
- January 2: Vasilis Emmanouilidis, football player.
- January 2: Nickolas Ambraseys, member of the Academy of Athens.
- January 4: Kostas Alexandridis, one-time president of the Hellenic Football Federation.
- January 4: Nikos Samaras, volleyball player.
- January 14: Dimitris Kastanas, Greek-American TV presenter.
- January 28: Nikolaos Dertilis, general of the Junta era.
March
- March 2: Giorgos Kolokithas, basketball player
- March 14: Andrew Athens, Greek-American President of the Council for Hellenes Abroad
May
- May 21: Thomas Protopapas, TV actor
- May 23: Georges Moustaki, singer, songwriter
- May 28: Fotis Polymeris, singer
June
- June 18: Takis Raptopoulos, footballer