Phantis:Selected anniversaries/April
- 1854: Tsamis Karatasos led a revolt of Greeks in the Chalkidiki peninsula.
- 1900: Prince George was named High Commissioner of Crete.
- 1912: Kostas Tsiklitiras broke Ray Ewry's world record in the standing broad jump with 3.47m.
- 1951: The Greek Parliament approved the law giving women the right to vote
- 1955: The EOKA campaign began in Cyprus with a proclamation from General "Digenis" and several acts of sabotage
- Deaths: King George II of Greece (1947), Modestos Panteli, EOKA fighter (1955), Yiannis Kyrastas, footballer and coach (2004).
Recent days: March 31 - March 30
- 1453: The army of Mehmet II set up camp outside Constantinople, beginning the siege of the city.
- 1915: The Greek-American daily National Herald commenced publication in New York.
- 1952: Maria Callas debuted in La Scala, Milan.
- 1993: A great fire on Skiathos burned much of the island's forested areas.
- Births: Ferenc Puskas, footballer and coach of Panathinaikos and AEK (1927), Dimitris Mitropanos, singer (1948)
- Deaths: Manolis Angelopoulos, singer (1989), Spyros Kotzamanis, assassin of Gregoris Lambrakis (1993).
Recent days: April 1 - March 31
- 1949: Mitsos Partsalidis replaced Nikolaos Zachariadis as head of the "Provisional Democratic Government".
- 1997: The Greek Consulate in Argyrokastro was attacked by armed men.
- 1997: Aris defeated Tofas Bursa 88-70 to lift the Corac Cup.
- Births: Theodoros Kolokotronis, general during the Greek Revolution (1770), Grigoris Lambrakis, politician (1912), Alex Grammas, Greek-American baseball player and coach (1926), Sotiris Ninis, footballer (1990)
- Deaths: Spyros Mercouris, mayor of Athens and grandfather of Melina Mercouri (1939), Manolis Kalomiris, music composer (1962)
Recent days: April 2 - April 1
- 1919: The Battleship Georgios Averof entered Smyrna harbour with 50,000 Greeks wildly cheering on the quay.
- 1968: In the Panathenaic Stadium, before 80,000 fans, AEK defeated Slavia Prague 89-82 and won the European Cup-winners Cup of Basketball.
- 1995: Greek Minister of Defence, Gerasimos Arsenis, declared that further Turkish intervention in Cyprus would constitute "Causus belli" for Greece.
- Births: Litsa Diamanti, singer (1949)
Recent days: April 3 - April 2
- 1897: The Greek government declared war on Turkey and the Greco-Turkish War (1897) began.
- 1912: Many Asia Minor Greeks were prevented from voting in the Turkish elections as Young Turks vandalised many polling places, burning ballots or electoral registers.
- 1944: 270 Greeks were executed in the village of Kleisoura (Kastoria), by the German occupation forces, in retaliation for the killing of two German soldiers in the area.
- 1962: Former Communist Party of Greece Secretary General, Nikolaos Zachariadis, requested to return to Greece to stand trial. His request was denied.
- 1970: Athens daily "Ethnos" ceased all operations.
Recent days: April 4 - April 3
- 648 BC: The ancient Greeks recorded an eclipse of the sun for the first time.
- 1870: Greek police and soldiers attacked the Arvanitakis gang. All the British and Italian hostages, held by the gang, were killed in the operation.
- 1896: Commencement of the first modern Olympic Games. By the Julian calendar, the games commenced on March 25 - the national holiday of Greece - as a symbolic gesture.
- 1941: During World War II, Greek PM Alexandros Korizis personally rejected a German demand for unconditional surrender.
- 1985: The Greek Parliament accepted the proposal of the PASOK government to amend the constitution.
- Births: Christos Sartzetakis, former President of Greece (1929)
- Deaths: Adamantios Korais, Greek intellectual (1833), Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (1995)
Recent days: April 5 - April 4
- 1896: Leonidas Pyrgos became the first Greek to win an Olympic Gold Medal after defeating Frenchman Peronnet at fencing.
- 1999: AEK played against Partizan Belgrade, despite the NATO bombardments, to show solidarity with the Serbian people.
- 2001: Olympiakos defeat Ferencvaros 9-7 and became the first Greek water polo team to qualify for the Champions' Cup final four.
- Births: Apostolos Kaldaras, composer (1922)
- Deaths: El Greco, painter (1614), Antonis Tritsis, former Mayor of Athens (1992), Grigoris Bithikotsis, singer (2005)
Recent days: April 6 - April 5
- 1986: Industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos, chairman of Halivourgiki Steel Company and friend of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, was killed while leaving his home in Kolonaki. The Revolutionary Organization 17 November assumed responsibility.
- 1990: New Democracy won the 3rd parliamentary elections held within a year with 46.8% of the vote and 150 seats.
- Births: Dionysios Solomos, the national poet of Greece (1798), Manolis Angelopoulos, singer (1939)
- Deaths: Apostolos Kaldaras, composer (1990).
Recent days: April 7 - April 6
- 1911: Kostis Palamas was suspended for a month by the University of Athens for his defence of the Demotic version of the Greek language.
- 1941: During World War II, Thessaloniki fell to the German army.
- 1991: A fire set on a Greek bus in Istanbul caused the death of 36 tourists. The culprit had Grey Wolves connections.
- Births: Pavlos Kountouriotis, Admiral, President of the Hellenic Republic (1855).
Recent days: April 8 - April 7
- 1821: Patriarch Gregory V was hanged on the Central outside porte of the Patriarchate by the Turks.
- 1821: The island of Psara joined the Greek War of Independence.
- 1826: The Sortie of Messolonghi took place on Palm Sunday. Out of 6,000 "besieged freemen" Greeks, only 1,300 escaped.
- 1896: Spiros Loues won the marathon in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
- Births: Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus (1941)
- Deaths: Ezekias Papaioannou, Cypriot politician chairman of AKEL (1988), Archbishop Seraphim of Athens and all Greece (1998), Archbishop Iakovos Koukouzis of North and South America (2005).
Recent days: April 9 - April 8
- 1838: The people of Hydra revolted, demanding exclusion from Greek conscription laws. The revolt lasted five days.
- 1911: An English military delegation arrived in Greece. Its task was to reform the Hellenic Navy.
- 1996: Panathinaikos defeated Barcelona 67-66 to win the European Euroleague.
- 2000: AEK defeated Kinder Bologna 83-76, in Lausanne, to win the Saporta Cup.
Recent days: April 10 - April 9
- 1204: Constantinople fell to the Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade.
- 1820: Alexander Ypsilantis was chosen to lead Filiki Eteria.
- 1830: The Ottoman Empire accepted Greek independence.
- 1994: Greece and Albania expelled each others diplomats over an attack at an army base in Argyrokastro that Albania claimed was the work of Greek agents.
- Births: Ioannis Metaxas, General and politician who led Greece during the beginning of World War II (1871), Jimmy Makulis, Elafro singer (1935).
- Deaths: Nikos Mantzaros, composed the music to the Greek National Anthem (1872).
Recent days: April 11 - April 10
- 1924: Greeks voted to replace their Monarchy with a Republic.
- 1949: The Polk trial started in Thessaloniki.
- 1996: Long distance runner, Yiannis Kouros ran 293.7 km in 24 hours.
- 2003: A truck crashed into a school bus near the vale of Tempe. 21 students died and over 30 were injured in this accident.
- Births: Thanos Mikroutsikos, composer (1947)
- Deaths: PM Konstantinos Demertzis (1936).
Recent days: April 12 - April 11
- 1828: The Tsar declared war on the Ottoman Empire due to the latter's refusal to accept autonomy for Greece.
- 1837: Foundation of the University of Athens.
- 1924: Greece was proclaimed a Republic following the ousting of King George II -- Pavlos Kountouriotis was named President, the first ever for Greece.
- 1989: It was discovered that Giorgos Koskotas hid $8 million of embezzled funds into secret Swiss bank accounts.
- Births: Michalis Sarris, Minister for the Economy of the Republic of Cyprus (1946).
- Deaths: Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, historian (1891), Dionysis Papayiannopoulos, actor (1984)
Recent days: April 13 - April 12
- 412 BC: Athens and Sparta agreed to a truce during the Peloponnesian War. This, so-called "Peace of Nicias" only lasted six years.
- 1850: The Pacifico incident ended after the intervention of France and Russia.
- 1896: The Closing ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games was held.
- 1939: Archaeological digs brought to light a palace in ancient Pylos, possibly that of Trojan War hero King Nestor.
- 1951: Conservatives won the mayoral elections in Athens, Thessaloniki and Piraeus.
- Births: Jean Moreas, French-Greek poet (1856), Memos Ioannou, basketball player and coach (1958).
- Deaths: Georgios Vizyinos, poet/writer (1896).
Recent days: April 14 - April 13
- 1071: The Byzantine Empire lost its last holding in Italy after the Normans took Bari.
- 1914: The Greek Army completed its withdrawal from Northern Epirus to the new Greek-Albanian frontier.
- 1992: After the death of Athens Mayor, Antonis Tritsis, Deputy Mayor Leonidas Kouris was elected to replace him.
- 2003: The final documents were signed in Athens for the acceptance of ten new EU members including Cyprus.
- 2006: A passenger train crashed into a truck, at a crossing near Drama, killing four people and injuring 40.
- Births: Kaity Grey, Greek singer (1924)
- Deaths: Stavros Niarchos, shipowner (1996).
Recent days: April 15 - April 14
- 1897: The Greek Army, under Brig. Gen. Konstantinos Smolenskis, defeated the Turks at Velestino. This was the only Greek victory in the Greco-Turkish War (1897).
- 1944: Communist resistance group ELAS attacked and annihilated EKKA, a republican resistance group. EKKA leader, Dimitrios Psaros, was captured and executed.
- 1994: Andreas Papandreou was re-elected party leader of PASOK.
- Births: Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, politician, writer (1910), Theodoros Angelopoulos, producer (1935)
- Deaths: Sotiris Spatharis, master of the "shadow theatre" (Karagiozis) (1974), Takis Miliadis, comic (1985), Yiannis Latsis, shipowner (2003); Anna Kalouta, actress (2010); Nikos Papazoglou, singer-songwriter (2011)
Recent days: April 16 - April 15
- 1901: Advocates of Enosis (union with Greece) triumphed in the Cretan elections.
- 1941: Days before Greece capitulated to the Germans, PM Alexandros Korizis committed suicide.
- 1944: Alexandros Svolos replaced Evripidis Bakirtzis as head of the Political Committee of National Liberation (the government of the mountains).
- 1956: Maria Desylla became the first woman elected mayor of a Greek city (Kerkyra).
- 1996: Fanatic Islamists murdered 18 Greek tourists in Cairo, Egypt.
- Births: Queen Frederika of Greece (1917)
- Deaths: Alexandros Korizis, Greek Prime Minister (1941), Menios Koutsogiorgas, politician (1991)
Recent days: April 17 - April 16
- 1882: The Peloponnesus railroad - a brain child of PM Charilaos Trikoupis - began operations
- 1920: Petros Trivoulidas won the 24th Boston Marathon.
- 1961: Manos Hadjidakis received an Oscar for the score of the film "Never on a Sunday"
- Births: Rivaldo, football player (1972).
- Deaths: Lord Byron (1824)
Recent days: April 18 - April 17
- 1914: Louis Tikas, Greek-American labor organizer, was slain in the "Ludlow Massacre".
- 1926: PAOK was founded.
- 1946: Stelios Kyriakidis won the Boston Marathon with a record-breaking time of 2hr 29m 27s.".
- 1961: Father Kosmas Aitolos was proclaimed a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- 2000: Panathinaikos defeated Maccabi 73-67 and won the Euroleague for the second time in their history.
- Births: Yiannis Gaitatzis, football player (1944).
- Deaths: Louis Tikas, Greek-American labour organiser (1914), Manolis Triantafyllidis, linguistic expert and Demotic language advocate (1959), Timos Perlegas, actor (1993), Nikos Rizos, actor (1999)
Recent days: April 19 - April 18
- 1949: Gregorios Staktopoulos was convicted of the murder of journalist, George Polk and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1961: Scientific research determined that the average life expectancy of a Greek male was 57 years and that of a Greek female 62 years.
- 1963: MP Gregoris Lambrakis marched alone in the Marathon to Athens peace rally that was banned by the police.
- 1967: After a military coup, a Junta, led by George Papadopoulos, seized power in Greece.
- 2019: PAOK wins its third Greek League title defeating Levadiakos with 5-0 in a packed Toumba Stadium.
- Deaths: Stathis Psaltis, actor (2017).
Recent days: April 20 - April 19
- 1821: The Battle of Alamana took place during the Greek War of Independence.
- 1906: The 1906 Athens "Olympiad" commenced. This competition was outside the Olympic Games' four-year cycle and was organised in order to revive the Games which were in danger of dying out after the 1904 St Louis circus-like flop.
- 1980: Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, visited Athens.
- Births: Spyros Markezinis, economist, politician (1909)
- Deaths: Giorgos Economidis, radio host, songwriter (1985).
Recent days: April 21 - April 20
- 1910: 25 men and women farmers were indicted for the bloody events of March 6 at Kileler.
- 1941: King George II and the Greek Government fled to Crete as the Germans marched towards Athens.
- 1944: The revolt of Greek leftist troops in Alexandria was put down by force.
- 2003: Greek Cypriots were allowed to visit the occupied North for the first time since 1974. Turkish Cypriots were allowed to visit the South.
- Births: Melina Kanakaredes, Greek-American actress (1967).
- Deaths: Georgios Karaiskakis, hero of the Greek Revolution (1827), Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (1998)
Recent days: April 22 - April 21
- 1944: 318 Greeks were killed by German occupation troops in Pyrgoι, Kozani prefecture.
- 1997: Olympiakos defeated Barcelona 73-58 and wοn the Euroleague.
- 2004: Greek Cypriots rejected by 75.83% the Annan Plan for Cyprus reunification.
- Births: Ioannis Georgiadis, fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist (1876), Glafkos Clerides, Cypriot politician (1919).
- Deaths: Athanasios Diakos, hero of the Greek Revolution (1821), Konstantinos Spanoudis, one of the founders of AEK (1941)
Recent days: April 23 - April 22
- 1941: German troops entered Chalkida and invaded Attica.
- 1941: German paratroopers occupied the Corinth Isthmus.
- 1941: Adolf Hitler signed Directive Number 28, ordering the invasion of Crete.
- Deaths: Giorgos Gennimatas, PASOK politician (1994).
Recent days: April 24 - April 23
- 1821: During the Greek War of Independence, Athens was liberated by Greek forces under Dimos Antoniou.
- 1825: Ibrahim Pasha routed a force of 1,500 Greeks at Sphacteria.
- 1912: Italian forces captured Rhodes.
- 1944: Greek guerrilas and British commandos kidnapped Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, commander of the German garrison of Crete.
- Births: Giorgos Kostikos, footballer and coach (1958)
- Deaths: Count Annibale Santarosa, philhellene, (1825), Anagnostaras, (1825) both killed in the Battle of Sphacteria.
Recent days: April 25 - April 24
- 1941: The Germans entered Athens during World War II.
- 1952: the Cypriot National Assembly ratified the union of Greece and Cyprus.
- Births: Adamantios Korais, Greek intellectual (1748), Sir Edward Codrington, British admiral at the Battle of Navarino (1770)
- Deaths: Ioannis Makrygiannis, hero of the Greek War of Independence (1864)
Recent days: April 26 - April 25
- 1834: The trial for treason of Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitrios Plapoutas commenced.
- 1926: PAOK was founded in Thessaloniki.
- 1971: Panathinaikos overturned a 1-4 loss in Belgrade against Crvena Zvezda with a 3-0 victory in Athens and qualified for the final of the European Champions' Cup in Wembley.
- 1997: In Paralimni, Cyprus, Greek Foreign Minister, Theodoros Pangalos, became godfather to the daughter of Tasos Isaak who was clubbed to death by Turkish occupation forces in Derynia.
- Deaths: Sir Edward Codrington, British admiral at the Battle of Navarino (1851)
Recent days: April 27 - April 26
- 1941: Italian troops occupied Kefallonia.
- 1995: AEK supporters attacked referee Philippos Bakas for giving a penalty against their team in the waning moments of the final of the Greek Football Cup against Panathinaikos.
- Births: Constantine Cavafy, poet/writer (1863), Sofia Sakorafa, athlete (1957)
- Deaths: Constantine Cavafy, poet/writer (1933), Yiannis Cholevas, footballer (2002)
Recent days: April 28 - April 27
- 1925: Olympiakos took the field for the first time ever in a friendly match against the crew of the French warship "Jeanne d'Arc". The Piraeus club triumphed 5-0.
- 1942: The Greek government announced that bread would be distributed three times a week. Each person possessing the appropriate coupon would be entitled to 80 drams (250 grams) of bread each time.
- 1949: Two new prefectures were formed by law: Corinthia and Pieria.
- 1954: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) rocked Thessaly leaving 25 dead and 117 injured.
- Births: Nikos Gatsos, poet/writer (1915), Demetra Liani (1955).
- Deaths: Georgios Plytas, politician, Mayor of Athens (1997)
Recent days: April 29 - April 28