Phantis:Selected anniversaries/March 18
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- 1844: King Otto took an oath of allegiance to the new constitution of Greece which was published in the Government's Annals.
- 1863: The Second National Assembly of Greece offered the throne to Prince George of Denmark.
- 1913: King George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki by Alexandros Schinas.Crown Prince Constantine ascended to the throne.
- Births: Yiannis Markopoulos, composer (1939), Temuri Ketsbaia, football player and coach (1968)
- Deaths: King George I, King of the Hellenes (1913), Eleftherios Venizelos, politician (1936), Odysseus Elytis, Nobel prize winning poet, (1996)