2013

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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. Bank depositors race to withdraw their money as the terms include a haircut on their accounts: Those with deposits of more than 100,000 euros are to be charged 9.9% and those with less 6.75% of their deposits.
• March 19: The Cyprus House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejects the terms of the EU bailout package. 36 MPs vote "no" while 19 DISY members abstain.
• March 21: Standard and Poor's downgrades the sovereign rating of Cyprus from CCC+ to CCC.
• March 22: The Cyprus House of Representatives approves nine bills to raise €5.8 billion in order to receive bailout aid from the EU.
• March 25: Eurozone finance ministers agree terms with Cyprus for a €10 billion bailout package. Under the terms - which focus on the Popular Bank - all accounts under €100,000 will be guaranteed while those above that amount will receive a "haircut".
• March 28: Banks reopen in Cyprus after nearly two weeks of being shut. Restrictions are imposed on transactions and the flow of capital.
• March 31: Panathinaikos sack coach Fabri Gonzalez after a disappointing 0-1 loss to Platanias.

April

• April 14: Dimitris Koutsoumbas is announced as the new chairman of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), succeeding Aleka Papariga.
• April 14: Fans go amok at the OAKA Stadium after an own-goal by Mavroudis Bougaidis, in the 88th minute of play, puts AEK 1-0 down to Panthrakikos. The referee is forced to abandon the game, condemning AEK to certain relegation to the B Division for the first time in history.
• April 22: Akis Tsochatzopoulos, goes on trial for kickbacks and money laundering related to arms procurements whilst he was Defence Minister.
• April 28: The Hellenic Parliament passes by 168 to 123 an "Omnibus" bill that, among other things, will give the government the power to dismiss 15,000 previously-tenured civil servants.
• April 30: The Cyprus House of Representatives approves by 29 to 27 the bailout agreement ("memorandum") with international creditors.

May

• May 5: Cyprus President, Nikos Anastasiades, visits Israel and holds talks with PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
• May 10: Kostas Filippidis wins the gold medal in the pole vault, at the Diamond League, in Doha, Qatar, with a 5.82m jump, setting a new outdoor Greek record.
• May 10: Olympiakos BC defeat CSKA Moscow 69-52 and qualify for the Euroleague final in London.
• May 11: Olympiakos defeat Asteras Tripolis 3-1 (aet) to win the Greek Football Cup.
• May 12: Olympiakos BC defeat Real Madrid 100-88 to win the Euroleague for the second year in a row.
• May 15: Fitch upgrades its sovereign credit rating for Greece to B- from CCC.
• May 16: PM Antonis Samaras meets with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.
• May 22: Apollon defeat AEL 2-1 in extra time to win the all-Limassol final of the Cyprus Football Cup.

June

• June 2: Katerina Nikolaidou wins the lightweight women's single sculls at the 2013 European Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain.
• June 7: The stockholders of AEK FC declare bankruptcy.
• June 11: PM Antonis Samaras shuts down ERT. Broadcasts are immediately shut down.
• June 12: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 76-72 and are crowned basketball champions of Greece. The match was interrupted 1 minute 27 seconds from time by supporters of Olympiakos who fired fireworks at the bench of Panathinaikos.
• June 18: The Conseil d' Etat orders ERT broadcasts to resume but uphold's PM Antonis Samaras' right to eventually shut it down.
• June 20: Fotis Kouvelis' Democratic Left party pulls out of the coalition government of Greece in protest over the closure of ERT.
• June 25: A reshuffled cabinet consisting only of New Democracy and PASOK members is sworn in. The reshuffle was necessitated due to the departure of the Democratic Left from the governing coalition.

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

May

• May 21: Thomas Protopapas, TV actor
• May 23: Georges Moustaki, singer, songwriter
• May 28: Fotis Polymeris, singer