2014

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Events

January

• January 1: Greece assumes the presidency of the European Union.
• January 6: Convicted November 17 member, Christodoulos Xiros, fails to report at a police station on his second-last day of prison leave, sparking a search by the Greek Police throughout central Macedonia.
• January 11: Two Golden Dawn MPs - Giorgos Germenis and Panagiotis Iliopoulos - are placed in pre-trial detention.
• January 12: Golden Dawn MP, Stathis Boukouras, is also placed in pre-trial detention.
• January 26: An earthquake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, strikes Kefalonia.
• January 28: Kostas Nakopoulos breaks the Greek indoor record for the 800m with 1:48:64.

February

• February 1: An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale strikes Amfiklia, Phthiotis prefecture.
• February 3: An earthquake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, strikes Kefalonia in the early hours of the morning.
• February 6: Moody's Investors Service upgrades the rating of the City of Athens to Caa3 from C.
• February 9: Panathinaikos defeat Aris 90-53 to lift the Greek Basketball Cup for their 15th time.
• February 12: An earthquake, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, strikes Kefalonia in the early afternoon.
• February 15: An earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, strikes Kefalonia in the early hours of the morning.
• February 21: The executive office of the Democratic Party of Cyprus (DIKO) votes to pull out of the government of Nikos Anastasiades.
• February 25: Kostas Douvalidis breaks the Greek record for the 60m hurdles with 7.60.
• February 25: Olympiakos defeat Manchester United 2-0 in the first leg of the knock out phase of the Champions' League.
• February 27: The central committee of the Democratic Party of Cyprus (DIKO) accepts the vote of the executive office and votes to pull out of the government of Nikos Anastasiades. Four DIKO ministers are called to resign from the Cabinet of Cyprus.

March

• March 2: Panathinaikos ends Olympiakos' 27-match unbeaten league run with a 3-0 away victory.
• March 6: German President, Joachim Gauck, pays a state visit to Greece.
• March 8: Kostas Filippidis wins the gold medal in the pole vault, with 5.80m, at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland.
• March 15: Olympiakos defeat Panthrakikos 2-0 and become the first European team to clinch their championship.
• March 19: Public sector union ADEDY starts a 48h strike against reserve labour and possible layoffs in the public sector.
• March 22: Cyprus declares a three-day mourning period for the death of serving Defence Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos.
• March 25: Corrections officer, Georgios Tsironis, is brutally murdered by Albanian inmate Ili Kareli in Malandrino prison.
• March 28: Murderer Ili Kareli is found dead in his cell at Nigrita prison where he was transferred, following his murder of warden Georgios Tsironis.

April

• April 4: An earthquake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, strikes 29km SE of Hydra.
• April 8: Six Nigrita prison officers are held in custody for the death of inmate Ili Kareli.
• April 9: Unions begin a 24-hour general strike, throughout Greece, to protest layoffs and privatisations.
• April 10: A bomb blows up outside the Greek central bank in Athens. There is damage but no injuries.
• April 10: Greece returns to the international bond market after a four-year absence.
• April 25: Standard and Poor’s and Fitch both upgrade their ratings and outlook for Cyprus based on the better-than-expected performance of its economy.
• April 26: Panathinaikos defeat PAOK 4-1 to lift the Greek Football Cup.
• April 27: A 13-year old boy dies and his 9-year old sister is injured in a freak accident at an amusement park.

May

• May 5: Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiades pays an official state visit to Germany.
• May 6: Alki Larnaca announce their dissolution.
• May 12: An earthquake, measuring 5 on the Richter scale, strikes 32km North of Igoumenitsa.
• May 12: The European Court of Human Rights orders Turkey to pay €90 million in part compensation to Cyprus over the 1974 invasion of the island. €30 million are for damages to relatives of those missing in the invasion and €60 million for the enclaved Greek-Cypriot residents of the Karpasia peninsula.
• May 13: Turkey announces that it has no plans to pay the €90 million to Cyprus awarded by the European Court of Human Rights.
• May 18: The first round of Mayoral and regional elections are held throughout Greece.
• May 21: US Vice President, John Biden, arrives in Cyprus on an official 3-day visit. This marks the first time a senior US official visits the island since Lyndon Johnson’s visit in 1962.

Deaths

January

• January 23: Takis Papadimitriou, footballer

February

• February 5: Jenny Vanou, singer
• February 21: Sakis Boulas, singer, actor
• February 26: Lakis Maramenidis, footballer

March

• March 22: Tasos Mitsopoulos, Minister for Defence of Cyprus.
• March 24: Stavros Daifas, ex-president of Olympiakos FC.
• March 26: Lakis Pappas, singer.

May

• May 17: Anna Polatou, gymnast,bronze medalist in 2000 Olympiad.