January 26: The official results of the parliamentary election are announced. SYRIZA: 36.34%, 149 seats; New Democracy: 27.81%, 76 seats; Golden Dawn: 6.28%, 17 seats; Potami: 6.05%, 17 seats; KKE: 5.47%, 15 seats; ANEL: 4.75%, 13 seats; PASOK: 4.68%, 13 seats
January 26: A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashes at Los Llanos base in Albacete, Spain, during a NATO exercise. Both pilots are killed along with eight others.
January 28: An earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, strikes south of Crete.
February 5: "We did not even agree to disagree", says Yanis Varoufakis after a meeting with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, contradicting his host. Varoufakis received no support from Wolfgang Schaeuble in the newly elected government's plan to win debt relief and end austerity policies.
February 20: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement to extend Greece's financial rescue by four months, provided they approve reform proposals to be submitted by Greece with a deadline of February 23.
February 24: Eurozone finance ministers approve reform proposals submitted by Greece in order to gain an extension of its bailout. The Athens Stock Exchange responds with gains of 9.81%.
March 23: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet in Germany. Both Tsipras and Merkel urge an end to German and Greek cultural stereotypes about "good and bad" eurozone members, saying such labels threaten European unity.
March 27: Ratings agency Fitch downgrades the sovereign rating of Greece by three notches, from B to CCC, citing "extreme pressure on Greek government funding."
April
April 2: Vicky Stamati, wife of the jailed former minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, escapes from Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital.
April 3: Vicky Stamati surrenders to authorities just one day after her escape from Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital.
April 8: Greek Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras wins pledges of closer cooperation from Russia at talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
April 15: An earthquake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, strikes Cyprus, 18km SW of Paphos.
April 15: Ratings agency S&P downgrades Greece's credit rating, saying it expects its debt and other financial commitments will be "unsustainable". S&P drops long and short-term sovereign credit ratings to CCC+/C from B-/B and says its outlook is negative.
April 16: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes around 50 km (30 miles) off the eastern tip of the island of Crete.
April 17: A powerful aftershock, measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, is felt throughout Crete.
April 25: The women’s water polo team of Olympiakos win their first ever Euro League title by beating holders Sabadell from Spain 10-9
May
May 3: Two inmates are killed and 18 others are injured during a clash at Korydallos prison.
May 4: A 27-year old Bulgarian national is arrested for the hideous murder of his 4-year old daughter, Anny Borisova, in Athens.
May 9: Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades is the lone leader of an EU country who attends the 70th anniversary celebrations of the victory against Nazi Germany, in Red Square, Moscow.
May 11: Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades meets Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, for the first time since the latter's election as president of the so-called TRNC.
May 15: Inter-communal talks resume in Cyprus after an eight-month break.
May 16: Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, abolishes the requirement that Greek Cypriots fill in a ‘visa’ form to cross to the breakaway north.
May 17: Olympiakos fall to Real Madrid 78-59 in the final of the Euroleague.
May 20: APOEL defeat AE Limassol 4-2 to lift the Cyprus Football Cup. The match was halted for 40 minutes when AEL fans threw debris on the pitch. Afterwards, the Larnaca fire department had to respond to ten calls as the same fans lit fires throughout the city.
June 3: Iraklis Thessaloniki mathematically clinches the second spot in the second-division play-offs, behind AEK, to secure its promotion back to the Super League after four years in lower divisions.
June 5: Greece misses its €300 million payment to the International Monetary Fund and announces that it will instead bundle all four of its June payments together at the end of the month. The Athens Stock Exchange responds with a 5% plunge in values.
June 9: An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale strikes near Chalkida.
June 10: Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras meets in Brussels with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for negotiations on new bailout funds.
June 11: Greece's state broadcaster ERT goes back on air, two years after being closed down under austerity measures.
June 14: Negotiations between Greece and the International Monetary Fund fall apart in less than an hour, with both sides blaming the other.
June 15: Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades visits Israel and meets with President Reuven Rivlin and PM Benjamin Netanyahu. He is the first head of state to visit Israel since Mr Rivlin's election to the Israeli presidency.
June 22: The Athens Stock Exchange posts gains of 9.00% in response to fresh proposals submitted by the Greek government to its lenders.
June 27: PM Alexis Tsipras calls for a referendum on the bailout deal proposed by the EU lenders.
June 28: As thousands of Greeks queue up to withdraw their money from ATMs, the European Central Bank announces it will not increase emergency funding to Greek banks. PM Alexis Tsipras responds by calling a bank holiday of unspecified duration.
June 30: Greece misses the deadline for a €1.5bn payment to the International Monetary Fund.
July 5: Greeks overwhelmingly reject the final bailout deal offered by the EU lenders in a referendum. 61.3% cast "no" ballots, confounding the pollsters who had predicted a close vote. New Democracy leader, Antonis Samaras, who had led an all-out campaign for a "yes" vote, resigns after pressure from his own party.
July 20: Banks in Greece open for the first time in three weeks. Bank customers are allowed to make a single withdrawal of €420 a week, instead of just €60 in daily withdrawals. However, restrictions on cash transfers abroad remain in place.
July 20: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirms that Greece has cleared overdue debt repayments of €2.05bn and is no longer in arrears.
July 23: A second package of measures, required by the EU for the third bailout, is approved in the Hellenic Parliament by 230 to 63. 31 SYRIZA MPs vote against the measures.
August 27: Supreme Court justice Vasiliki Thanou is named caretaker Prime Minister. She becomes the first woman to hold that post in Greece.
September
September 7: The National Football Team draws 0-0 in Bucharest against Romania and equalises a negative record of 11 straight matches without a victory.
September 9: There is no clear winner in a televised debate of the leaders of the major parties that will take part in the upcoming national elections.
September 12: Greece defeat Belgium 75-54 to advance to the quarterfinals of EuroBasket 2015.
September 14: The second televised debate of the leaders of the major parties takes place.
November 12: Thousands of Greek workers take to the streets to protest proposed austerity measures.
November 13: PM Alexis Tsipras sends his condolences to French President Hollande over the Paris terrorist attacks.
November 17: A powerful earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, strikes Lefkada moving the island 36cm to the south.
November 21: The derby between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos is called off, 30 minutes after the scheduled kick-off, following violent scenes with flares being thrown onto the pitch and fans battling police outside the stadium.
December 3: The EU border agency Frontex said that it will deploy additional guards at Greece’s border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) where migrants have been stranded for more than a week.
December 6: Riots take place in Athens on the anniversary of the killing of 15-year old Alexis Grigoropoulos.
December 22: The Hellenic Parliament unanimously recognises a "Palestinian state" as Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, visits Athens.
December 22: The Hellenic Parliament passes by 194 to 55 (with 51 abstentions) legislation that grants gay couples full marriage rights.
December 25: Cyprus president Nikos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci make a joint television appearance to wish Cypriots happy holidays. Both leaders speak in both Greek and Turkish.