March 22

Events

1880: Charilaos Trikoupis forms a government.
1912: Stavros Baretis assassinates Andreas Kopasis - the pro-Turkish governor of Samos.
1930: Prisoners in Greece go on strike demanding better food.
1949: Communists blow up the power station of Xylokastro but are slain by national forces.
1982: Civil wedding ceremonies are given equal status to religious ones in Greece.
1983: In a letter to the Police, an organisation called "Anti-terrorist Struggle" assumes responsibility for the murder of publisher Tzortzis Athanasiadis.
1987: Odysseus Angelis, a member of the junta of 1967-1974, is found hanged in his prison cell - a suicide.
1992: 20,000 Greeks demonstrate in Bonn, Germany, on the issue of Macedonia.
2010: Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus crosses into the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus to visit the monasteries of Saint Barnabas and Saint Andrew.

1896: Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first marathon ever run with a time of 3hrs 17mins.
1997: Vouliagmeni win the European Cup-winners Cup in water polo by defeating Roma 7-6.
2009: Panathinaikos lose 3-1 sets to Russia's Lokomotiv-Belogorie Belgorod in the final of the CEV Cup.
2025: Emmanouil Karalis wins silver at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Nanjing, China, breaking the Greek record for the pole vault with a 6.05m jump.