Difference between revisions of "1920"

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June 22: Beginning of the Greek offensive in Anatolia.
June 24: The Greeks defeat Turkish forces at Alasehir during the first Greek offensive of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

July 9: The Greeks take Bursa during the first Greek offensive of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
July 22: Italy renounces the Titoni-Venizelos accord and refuses to place the Dodecanese - other than Rhodes - under Greek control.
July 25: The Greeks take Edirne during the first Greek offensive of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
July 30: Two former officers - Tserepis and Kyriakis - fire ten shots at Eleftherios Venizelos at the train station of Lyon, France. The Greek PM escapes death.
July 31: Ion Dragoumis is shot dead by policemen in Athens. The nationalist politician was believed to have been involved in the Venizelos murder attempt.

August 10: The Treaty of Sevres is signed creating the "Greece of two continents and five seas".

September 30: King Alexander of Greece is bitten in the left leg by a monkey in the royal gardens. The bite will prove fatal.

December 5: A referendum is held for the return of King Constantine I to Greece as a monarch.
December 15: Britain and France announce that, after the return of King Constantine I, they are no longer responsible for the presence of the Greek army in Asia Minor.

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 ===May===
 *[[May 13]]: Dr. [[Vasos Lyssaridis]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician.
+===October===
+*[[October 18]]: [[Melina Mercouri]], actress, activist and politician
 ==Deaths==