1922

Events

July

• July 18: *1922: The Greek government declares Asia Minor independent, after truce signing negotations with Turkey fail.

August

• August 26: The Battle of Afyon Karahisar commences.
• August 30: The Battle of Afyon Karahisar ends in defeat for the Greek army.

September

• September 9: Turkish troops enter Smyrna.
• September 13: Smyrna is set ablaze by the Turkish army. For the next three days the city will burn out of control and an estimated 100,000 Greeks and Armenians will be killed.
• September 27: King Constantine I abdicates the throne.

October

• October 11: The Armistice of Mudanya is signed between Britain, France, Italy on the one hand and Turkey on the other.
• October 14: Greece acceeds to the Armistice of Mudanya.
• October 20: The peace conference which eventually produces the Treaty of Lausanne, commences.

November

• November 28: Five members of the Laiko Party - Dimitrios Gounaris, Nikolaos Stratos, Petros Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Theotokis, Georgios Baltatzis - as well as General Georgios Hadjianestis are executed at Goudi, Athens, for their role in the Asia Minor disaster.

Births

February

• February 22: Apostolos Santas, member of the Greek Resistance who lowered the swastika from the Acropolis, Athens.

August

• August 15: Giorgos Mouzakis, composer

November

• November 3: Spiros Kelogerou, actor

December

• December 2: Iakovos Kambanellis, theatrical playwriter
• December 11: Grigoris Bithikotsis, singer

Deaths

September

• September 9: Bishop Chrysostom of Smyrna.

October

• October 24: : Andreas Karkavitsas, writer, physician