1963
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Events
January
- January 13: A mudslide kills 13 persons in Mikro Chorio, Evritania prefecture.
May
- May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, a leftist politician is assassinated in Thessaloniki
June
- June 2: AEK defeat Iraklis 5-0 for the Greek League. All five goals are scored by Kostas Nestoridis.
November
- November 3: Georgios Papandreou's political party, Center Union, emerges the winner in the national elections held, and forms a minority government with 42.2% of the votes.
- November 30: Archbishop Makarios III proposes 13 amendments to the constitution of Cyprus.
December
- December 3 : Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students.
- December 9: Constantine Karamanlis resigns from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.
- December 27: Student rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of a union between Greece and Cyprus.
June
- June 14: Toni Savevski, football player and coach
Deaths
May
- May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, politician