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January 15: France supplies the Kemalist army with weapons and ammunition in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).

July 18: The Greek government declares Asia Minor independent, after truce signing negotations with Turkey fail.
july 31: With a signed document, Panathinaikos president Giorgos Hatzopoulos, who designed the 3-leaf clover and general secretary, Mihalis Papazoglou, who selected it, announce the new name of Panathinaikos, from PPAO to PAO

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 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.
October 22: The Greek army evacuates Eastern Thrace followed by thousands of Greek and Armenian refugees.

December 3: War rallies are held in many Cypriot cities with the union between Greece and Cyprus being the main demand.

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 ===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]].
+===December===
+*[[December 3]]: War rallies are held in many Cypriot cities with the union between [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] being the main demand.
 ==Births==