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| − | ===January===
| + | *[[1453]]: Turkish ships enter the [[Golden Horn]] over land to tighten the noose on besieged [[Constantinople]]. |
| − | *[[January 6]]: Unknown arsonists set fire to the Jewish synagogue of [[Chania]], [[Crete]]. | + | *[[1821]]: The [[Battle of Alamana]] takes place during the Greek [[War of Independence]]. |
| − | *[[January 11]]: [[Cypriot]] Media executive, Antis Hadjikostis, is murdered outside his house at [[Engomi]]. | + | *[[1822]]: Turkish forces take [[Naousa]]. They destroy the city and several surrounding villages. |
| − | *[[January 14]]: The Socialist government of [[George Papandreou]] unveils an austerity programme. | + | *[[1906]]: The [[1906 Summer Olympics|1906 Athens "Olympiad"]] commences. This competition was outside the Olympic Games' four-year cycle and was organised in order to revive the Games which were in danger of dying out after the 1904 St Louis circus-like flop. |
| − | *[[January 16]]: [[Marcos Baghdatis]] defeats Richard Gasquet 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) to claim the Sydney International ATP. | + | *[[1948]]: A strong earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) destroys much of [[Lefkada]]. |
| − | *[[January 18]]: Greek-owned super-tanker, Maran Centaurus, is released by Somali pirates after a ransom was paid. Its crew of nine Greeks and 19 foreigners were unharmed. | + | *[[1980]]: Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, visits [[Athens]]. |
| − | *[[January 19]]: The British Court of Appeal judges in favour of [[Cypriot]] refugee Meletis Apostolides in the case of Apostolides v Orams. Apostolides had sued Mr and Mrs Orams for illegal use of his property in [[Lapithos]] in Turkish-occupied northern [[Cyprus]]. | + | *[[1988]]: [[Dimitris Christofias]] is elected Secretary General of [[AKEL]], succeeding [[Ezekias Papaioannou]] who died earlier in the month. |
| − | *[[January 19]]: [[Olympiakos FC]] sack coach [[Zico]]. | + | ===Sports=== |
| − | *[[January 20]]: Values on the [[Athens Stock Market]] drop 3.39% to 2,030. The drop is blamed on the uncertain state of the Greek economy.
| + | *[[1956]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] lose to Italy's seconds 7-1 in a Mediterranean Cup game played in Naples. |
| − | *[[January 30]]: [[Aphrodite Skafida]] breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the [[pole vault]] with 4.41m. | + | *[[1973]]: [[Alpha Ethniki|League]] leaders [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] are stunned 5-3 at home by [[Panachaiki FC|Panachaiki]]. The loss dropped the [[Thessaloniki]] club into 2nd place and ended up costing them the championship. |
| | + | *[[2024]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos']] youth team defeat AC Milan 3-0 to take the UEFA Youth League Cup, marking the first time a Greek team has ever won an UEFA competition. |
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| − | *[[February 3]]: [[Karolos Papoulias]] is re-elected President of Greece.
| + | *[[1909]]: [[Spyros Markezinis]], politician |
| − | *[[February 3]]: The European Union's executive Commission approves Greece's austerity plan, placing the country under surveillance.
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| − | *[[February 5]]: The [[Athens Stock Exchange]] closes at 1878.91 after losses of 3.73%.
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| − | *[[February 8]]: [[EDEK]] decide to pull out of the governing coalition of [[Cyprus]].
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| − | *[[February 10]]: Greece is hit by a general strike of public workers in protest of PM [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]]'s announced austerity measures.
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| − | *[[February 15]]: A state of emergency is declared for [[Evros prefecture]] due to severe flooding.
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| − | *[[February 16]]: PM [[Giorgos Papandreou]] visits Moscow and has talks with President Dmitri Medvedev and PM Vladimir Putin.
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| − | *[[February 17]]: [[Michalis Stamatoyiannis]] breaks the Greek [[shot put]] indoor record with 20.36 in [[Athens]]. The old record had stood for 24 years.
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| − | *[[February 20]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] win the [[Greek Basketball Cup]] defeating [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] 68-64. This snapped an 8-year Cup-winning streak by the Greens.
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| − | *[[February 22]]: The two largest Greek airlines - [[Οlympic Air]] and [[Aegean Airlines]] - decide to effect a merger in October.
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| − | *[[February 24]]: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as private and public sector workers protest the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.
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| − | *[[February 24]]: [[Greek-Australian]] [[Lydia Lassila]] (née Ierodiaconou) wins gold for Australia in freestyle skiing at the Vancouver winter Olympics.
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| − | *[[February 25]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] advance in the Europa Cup after a 3-2 triumph over AS Roma in Stadio Olimpico. The first game in [[Athens]] had also ended in a 3-2 victory.
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| − | ===March===
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| − | *[[March 3]]: PM [[Giorgos Papandreou]] announces a series of new austerity measures designed to combat the country's huge economic deficit. These include increases in VAT, a 15% increase in petrol tax, freezes in pensions and a 30% cut in Easter and Christmas bonuses for civil servants.
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| − | *[[March 8]]: PM [[Giorgos Papandreou]] arrives in Washington for a programmed 3-day official visit to the USA.
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| − | *[[March 8]]: The remains of [[Cypriot]] president [[Tassos Papadopoulos]], which were stolen on [[December 11]], [[2009]], are found by the police after an anonymous tip.
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| − | *[[March 11]]: A general strike, called by the unions [[ADEDY]] and [[GSEE]], cripples [[Greece]] as private and public sector workers again protest against the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.
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| − | *[[March 11]]: The remains of [[Cypriot]] president [[Tassos Papadopoulos]] are re-interred in Deftera Cemetery.
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| − | *[[March 12]]: [[Karolos Papoulias]] is sworn in for his second term as President of Greece.
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| − | *[[March 19]]: Unknown culprits blow up the offices of "[[Golden Dawn]]" - a far-right organisation - in the city centre of [[Athens]].
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| − | *[[March 22]]: Archbishop [[Chrysostomos II of Cyprus]] crosses into the Turkish-occupied north of [[Cyprus]] to visit the monasteries of Saint [[Barnabas]] and [[Saint Andrew]].
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| − | *[[March 25]]: The EU decides to involve the International Monetary Fund in a Greek rescue package.
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| − | *[[March 28]]: A bomb goes off in [[Athens]] killing a 15-year old boy.
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| − | ===April===
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| − | *[[April 8]]: Athanassios Lerounis, a Greek national kidnapped by the Taliban eight months ago in Pakistan is released. He was abducted while based in the northern district of Chitral, where he worked as the curator of a heritage museum for several years.
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| − | *[[April 11]]: The eurozone maps out a plan to lend Greece 30 billion euros in 2010, at a rate of five percent.
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| − | *[[April 22]]: The EU sharply increases Athens' 2009 public deficit estimate to 13.6 percent. Moody's cuts Greece's sovereign debt rating a notch from A2 to A3, sparking market panic.
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| − | *[[April 23]]: Greece asks for up to 45 billion euros of urgent aid at low rates, promising new austerity measures.
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| − | *[[April 24]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Aris FC|Aris]] [[Thessaloniki]] 1-0 in the final of the [[Greek Football Cup]] to complete their domestic double.
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| − | *[[April 27]]: Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign debt to junk status and cuts Portugal and Spain's credit ratings. European stock exchanges tumble.
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| − | ===May===
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| − | *[[May 1]]: Violent protests against proposed austerity measures take place throughout Greece.
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| − | *[[May 2]]: Athens announces a drastic austerity programme. Eurozone members and the IMF agree to a €110bn (£95bn; $146.2bn) three-year bail-out package to rescue Greece's embattled economy.
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| − | *[[May 3]]: The European Central Bank suspends benchmark criteria for lending to Greek banks.
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| − | *[[May 5]]: Greece is paralysed by a general strike as workers protest the austerity measures proposed by PM [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] to combat the national debt. During the protests, three people die in a firebomb attack on an [[Athens]] bank.
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| − | *[[May 7]]: Eurozone leaders meet at a summit to stem the Greek crisis and stop the crisis from spreading.
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| − | *[[May 7]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] defeat Partizan Belgrade 83-80 to advance to the final of the Euroleague.
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| − | *[[May 9]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] fail to win the Euroleague as they lose 86-68, in the final, to Barcelona.
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| − | *[[May 10]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] index rises by 9.13% to 1,779.30.
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| − | *[[May 14]]: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in [[Athens]], on an official state visit, accompanied by ten cabinet ministers.
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| − | *[[May 17]]: Deputy Minister for Tourism, [[Angela Gerekou]], resigns over a press revelation that her husband, singer [[Tolis Voskopoulos]], owes more than €5 million in back taxes and fines.
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| − | *[[May 25]]: Newly-elected Turkish-Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, meets for the first time with President [[Dimitris Christofias]] as the Cyprus talks continue where they left off before the Turkish-Cypriot elections.
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| − | ===June===
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| − | *[[June 1]]: The [[Hellenic Football Federation]] (EPO) rules that the papers submitted by [[Iraklis FC]] are inadequate and bars the [[Thessaloniki]] club from taking part in the upcoming [[Football A Division|Greek Super League]].
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| − | *[[June 4]]: Pope Benedict XVI visits [[Cyprus]] marking his first visit to an Orthodox country and the first visit ever to [[Cyprus]] by any pope of Rome.
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| − | *[[June 6]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 76-69 and win the Greek [[A1 League|basketball championship]]. The game was interrupted three times as rowdy fans threw objects onto the court. It was stopped a fourth time, 1min 3sec before the end, and was never actually completed.
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| − | *[[June 7]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] index plunges by 5.45% to 1,403.92 - its lowest level since February 1998.
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| − | *[[June 12]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] open their World Cup 2010 campaign with a disappointing 2-0 defeat at the hands of S. Korea.
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| − | *[[June 17]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] score their first goals and record their first win in World Cup Soccer at the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa, beating Nigeria with a score of 2-1. The goals for [[National Football Team|Greece]] were scored by [[Dimitris Salpingidis]] 44' and [[Vassilis Torosidis]] 71'.
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| − | *[[June 22]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] end their World Cup 2010 campaign with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Argentina.
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| − | *[[June 24]]: A nine-year era comes to a close as [[Otto Rehhagel]] announces his retirement from the position of head coach of the Greek [[National Football Team]].
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| − | *[[June 24]]: A bomb blast at the offices of [[Minister for Public Order (Greece)|Greece's public order ministry]] in [[Athens]] kills Giorgos Vassilakis, a 50-year-old father of two and a close aide to the minister responsible for counter-terrorism, [[Michalis Chryssohoidis]].
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| − | *[[June 24]]: [[Iraklis FC]] win the right to play in the upcoming [[Football A Division|Greek Super League]] season after winning an appeal against the [[June 1]] [[EPO]] ruling that their entry papers were inadequate.
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| − | *[[June 29]]: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as workers once more protest the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.
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| − | ===July===
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| − | *[[July 6]]: An era comes to an end as [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] president, [[Socrates Kokkalis]] sells his interests in the club to shipowner [[Vangelis Marinakis]].
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| − | *[[July 8]]: Yet another general strike takes place throughout [[Greece]].
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| − | *[[July 15]]: [[Olympiakos FC]] defeat KS Besa of Albania 5-0 in the 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League, recording their greatest ever away win in Europe. | |
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| | ==Deaths== | | ==Deaths== |
| − | ===January===
| + | *[[1985]]: [[Giorgos Economidis]], radio host, songwriter. |
| − | *[[January 21]]: [[Apostolos Vasiliadis]], footballer. | |
| − | *[[January 27]]: [[Yiannis Marditsis]], footballer.
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| − | ===February===
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| − | *[[February 4]]: [[Kostas Axelos]], philosopher
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| − | *[[February 5]]: [[Ioannis Palamiotis]], athlete ([[triple jump]])
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| − | ===March===
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| − | *[[March 15]]: [[Sotiris Zakapidas]], footballer
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| − | ===April===
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| − | *[[April 1]]: [[Tzannis Tzannetakis]], politician, former Prime Minister of Greece.
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| − | *[[April 17]]: [[Anna Kalouta]], stage and screen actress.
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| − | ===June===
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| − | *[[June 8]]: [[Andreas Voutsinas]], actor, drama coach and stage director
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| − | *[[June 21]]: [[Takis Nikolaidis]], football player
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| − | ===July===
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| − | *[[July 5]]: [[Yiannis Papaspyrou]], politician, Mayor of [[Piraeus]].
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| − | *[[July 6]]: [[Alekos Sofianidis]], footballer.
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| − | *[[July 17]]: [[Yiannis Stefas]], footballer.
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