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*[[December 18]]: [[Vasilis Michailidis]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] poet | *[[December 18]]: [[Vasilis Michailidis]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] poet | ||
Revision as of 15:28, April 23, 2007
Events
June
- June 11: King Constantine I leaves Greece, exiled by his political opponents.
- June 29: Greece enters World War I.
- June 29: Eleftherios Venizelos declares King Constantine's abolition of the 1915 Hellenic Parliament unconstitutional. He controversially "resurrects" the 1915 Parliament which goes down in history as "The Parliament of the Lazaroi".
August
- August 5: The city centre of Thessaloniki is destroyed by a fire.
Births
April
June
- June 13: Phaedon Gizikis, Junta-appointed President of Greece.
- June 15: Michalis Genitsaris, rebetiko singer
Deaths
March
- March 25: Spyros Samaras, composer
- December 18: Vasilis Michailidis, Cypriot poet