Difference between revisions of "1921"

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January 9: The First Battle of Inonu commences.
January 11: The First Battle of Inonu ends inconclusively after both sides pull back and both claim victory.

April 8: Georgios Papandreou publishes his article "The King and the Nation" urging King Constantine I to resign.
April 16: Prime Minister, Dimitrios Gounaris, arrives in Smyrna to assess first-hand the military situation in Asia Minor.

July 4: The Greek Army enters Kutahya.
July 15: A war council, under King Constantine I, at Kutahya, decides to capture Ankara, seat of the Kemalist movement.

August 19: The Greek Army crosses the Sakarya river and enters the Salty Desert.
August 23: The Battle of the Sakarya commences during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
August 27: The Greek Army captures the first line of defence of the Turks during the Battle of the Sakarya.

September 2: Farthest advance of the Greek Army during the Battle of the Sakarya.
September 13: The Battle of the Sakarya ends with the withdrawal of the Greek Army.
September 15: Eleftherios Venizelos - a widower - weds Elena Skilitsi in London.

November 9: The Great Powers decide to once again grant Northern Epirus to Albania.
November 27: Meletios Metaxakis, Archbishop of North and South America, is elected Ecumenical Patriarch. Meletios was labeled a Venizelist.

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 ===January===
 *[[January 9]]: The [[First Battle of Inonu]] commences.
+*[[January 11]]: The [[First Battle of Inonu]] ends inconclusively after both sides pull back and both claim victory.
 ===February===
 *[[February 27]]: Crown Prince [[King George II|George]] of [[Greece]] weds [[Princess Elisabeth of Romania]].
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 *[[March 2]]: [[Kazimierz Gorski]], football coach
 *[[March 9]]: [[Dimitris Horn]], stage actor.
+*[[March 21]]: [[Manolis Chiotis]], musician
 ===August===