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==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
===January=== | ===January=== | ||
| + | *[[January 2]]: [[Vasilis Emmanouilidis]], [[football (soccer)|football]] player. | ||
*[[January 2]]: [[Nickolas Ambraseys]], member of the [[Academy of Athens]]. | *[[January 2]]: [[Nickolas Ambraseys]], member of the [[Academy of Athens]]. | ||
*[[January 4]]: [[Kostas Alexandridis]], one-time president of the [[Hellenic Football Federation]]. | *[[January 4]]: [[Kostas Alexandridis]], one-time president of the [[Hellenic Football Federation]]. | ||
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*[[January 14]]: [[Dimitris Kastanas]], [[Greek-American]] TV presenter. | *[[January 14]]: [[Dimitris Kastanas]], [[Greek-American]] TV presenter. | ||
*[[January 28]]: [[Nikolaos Dertilis]], general of the [[Junta]] era. | *[[January 28]]: [[Nikolaos Dertilis]], general of the [[Junta]] era. | ||
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===March=== | ===March=== | ||
*[[March 2]]: [[Giorgos Kolokithas]], basketball player | *[[March 2]]: [[Giorgos Kolokithas]], basketball player | ||
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Events
January
- January 2: The Athens Stock Exchange starts the new year in good fashion as the General Index closes at 941.26 after gains of 3.67%.
- January 4: The elections for the Presidency of Cyprus are officially proclaimed. The first round will be held on February 17 with the runoff - if necessary - being held one week later.
- January 10: Moody's downgrades Cyprus' government bond rating by three notches: from B3 to Caa3.
- January 20: A time bomb goes off at "The Mall" shopping centre in Maroussi.
- January 26: Athens Metro workers return to work after a 10-day strike.
- January 31: Kostas Filippidis breaks the Greek indoor and overall record in the pole vault with a jump of 5.83m.
February
- February 9: Nikoletta Kyriakopoulou breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the pole vault, at Donetsk, Ukraine, with 4.60m.
- February 10: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.
- February 17: In the Cyprus presidential elections, Nikos Anastasiades, the head of conservative DISY, receives 45.46% of the vote and advances to the runoff against AKEL candidate Stavros Malas who ends up with 26.91% barely edging out Giorgos Lillikas of EDEK.
- February 20: Major unions in Greece stage a 24-hour general strike.
- February 24: Nikos Anastasiades defeats Stavros Malas in the Cyprus runoff election and is elected President. Anastasiades polls 57.48% against 42.52% for Malas.
- February 27: Former Thessaloniki mayor, Vasilis Papageorgopoulos, is sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement of public money.
- February 28: Nikos Anastasiades is installed as President of the Republic of Cyprus.
March
- March 4: Former Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos is sentenced to eight years in jail and a €520,000 fine for failure to disclose certain assets during his term as MP.
- March 4: PM Antonis Samaras meets with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul and sign 25 bilateral pacts.
- March 10: Olympiakos clinch their 40th football championship with a 3-0 home win against AEK.
- March 16: Eurozone finance ministers agree a €10 billion bailout package for Cyprus.
Deaths
January
- January 2: Vasilis Emmanouilidis, football player.
- January 2: Nickolas Ambraseys, member of the Academy of Athens.
- January 4: Kostas Alexandridis, one-time president of the Hellenic Football Federation.
- January 4: Nikos Samaras, volleyball player.
- January 14: Dimitris Kastanas, Greek-American TV presenter.
- January 28: Nikolaos Dertilis, general of the Junta era.
March
- March 2: Giorgos Kolokithas, basketball player
- March 14: Andrew Athens, Greek-American President of the Council for Hellenes Abroad