1913

Events

January

• January 5: The Naval Battle of Lemnos commences during the First Balkan War.
• January 18: The Naval Battle of Lemnos ends in Greek victory.

March

• March 18: King George I is assassinated in Thessaloniki by Alexandros Schinas.Crown Prince Constantine ascends to the throne.

May

• May 6: Alexander Schinas (assassin of King George I) kills himself by jumping out of a Police Station window.
• May 30: The Treaty of London concludes the First Balkan War.

June

• June 30: The first massacre at Doxato takes place during the Second Balkan War, as Bulgarian troops kill 650 inhabitants of this Drama prefecture town before burning it to the ground. A second massacre would take place in the same town during World War II (see September 29).

July

• July 31: Bulgaria signs an armistice ending hostilities in the Second Balkan War.

August

• August 9: The Battle of Kresna Gorge is concluded as Bulgaria surrenders during the Second Balkan War.
• August 10: The Treaty of Bucharest is concluded ending the Second Balkan War.

December

• December 1: Crete officially becomes part of Greece. King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos preside on an official ceremony of the raising of the Greek flag on Fort of Firkas Bastion.
• December 17: The Florence Protocol is signed which drew the border between Greece and Albania. Northern Epirus is awarded to the newly-created Albanian state. The Great Powers (England, France, Italym, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary) set language as the only criteria for their decision.

Births

January

• January 18: Yiannis Papaioannou, rebetika songwriter.

March

• March 13: Lambros Konstantaras, actor

August

• August 2: Seraphim, Archbishop of Athens.
• August 13: Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus

November

• November 7: Alekos Sakelarios, director, writer, reporter

Deaths

March

• March 18: King George I, King of the Hellenes

May

• May 6: Alexander Schinas, assassin of King George I