- 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).
