1955 - Revision history

Irlandos: /* October */

2014-06-10T19:20:11Z

October

2011-05-10T11:30:08Z

December

2011-05-10T11:25:06Z

November

2011-05-10T11:24:03Z

November

2011-05-10T11:11:42Z

October

2011-05-10T10:56:59Z

September

2011-05-10T10:51:47Z

July

2011-05-10T10:26:46Z

Events

2011-05-10T10:20:25Z

April

2011-05-10T10:20:09Z

April

@@ Line 53: / Line 53: @@
 *[[April 30]]: [[Demetra Liani]], [[Olympic Airways]] hostess who married PM [[Andreas Papandreou]].
 ===October===
 *[[October 17]]: [[Georgios Alogoskoufis]], economist, politician
 *[[October 26]]: [[Antros Kyprianou]], [[Cypriot]] politician

@@ Line 42: / Line 42: @@
 *[[December 12]] - The [[Battle of Spilia]] is fought in the [[EOKA]] struggle against the British in [[Cyprus]].
 *[[December 14]]:  The foundations for the [[Aspropyrgos Refinery]] are set.
 *[[December 15]]: The [[battle of Soloi]] is fought during the [[EOKA]] struggle against the British in [[Cyprus]]. [[Charalambos Mouskos]] is killed (first battle fatality of the struggle).

@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 ===November===
-*[[November 26]]: [[Cyprus]] governor [[John Harding]] declares a state of emergency throughout the island.
+*[[November 26]]: [[Cyprus]] governor [[Sir John Harding]] declares a state of emergency throughout the island.
 *[[November 28]]: [[EOKA]] member, [[Andreas Dimitriou]], shoots and injures a British Intelligence agent named Taylor. For the assault, Dimitriou would become, along with [[Michalis Karaolis]], one of the first two Cypriots hanged by the British during the EOKA struggle.

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:24, May 10, 2011
Line 35:		Line 35:

	===November===		===November===
		+	*[[November 26]]: [[Cyprus]] governor [[John Harding]] declares a state of emergency throughout the island.
	*[[November 28]]: [[EOKA]] member, [[Andreas Dimitriou]], shoots and injures a British Intelligence agent named Taylor. For the assault, Dimitriou would become, along with [[Michalis Karaolis]], one of the first two Cypriots hanged by the British during the EOKA struggle.		*[[November 28]]: [[EOKA]] member, [[Andreas Dimitriou]], shoots and injures a British Intelligence agent named Taylor. For the assault, Dimitriou would become, along with [[Michalis Karaolis]], one of the first two Cypriots hanged by the British during the EOKA struggle.

@@ Line 30: / Line 30: @@
 *[[October 3]]: [[Sir John Harding]] is made military governor of [[Cyprus]].
 *[[October 4]]: Prime Minister [[Alexandros Papagos]] dies in office.
 *[[October 28]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]] is arrested in [[Cyprus]].

@@ Line 25: / Line 25: @@
 *[[September 6]]: The [[Istanbul Pogrom]] breaks out against the Greek minority.
 *[[September 7]]: Riots break out against Greeks in [[Smyrna]] (Izmir) - a follow-up to the [[Istanbul pogrom]] one day earlier.
 ===October===

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 *[[June 16]]: [[Stylianos Lenas]] and [[Markos Drakos]] unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate [[Cyprus]] governor [[Sir Robert Perceval Armitage|Robert Armitage]].
 ===July===
-*[[July 15]]: [[Cyprus]] governor, [[Sir Robert Perceval Armitage|Robert Armitage]], abolishes the writ of habeas corpus in [[Cyprus]].
+*[[July 15]]: [[Cyprus]] governor, [[Sir Robert Perceval Armitage|Robert Armitage]], establishes the "Detention of Persons Law" which abolishes the writ of habeas corpus in [[Cyprus]].
 *[[July 17]]: 27 communists break out of Vourla prison in [[Piraeus]].

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 *[[April 1]]: Start of the [[EOKA]] campaign against the British in [[Cyprus]].
 *[[April 24]]: In a "Free Greece" radio broadcast, [[KKE]] chairman, [[Nikos Zachariadis]], reveals that [[EOKA]] leader "Digenes" is none other than former [[Organisation X]] commander [[Georgios Grivas]].
 *[[May 6]]: A British colonial court in [[Cyprus]] convicts 11 Greeks of transporting weaponry and ammunition on board the sailboat "Agios Georgios".