1902
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Events
February
- February 1: The Ministry of the Military orders confiscated all copies of the translated Bible in Greece. The row over the translation of the Bible into modern Greek is known in history as "The Evangelical events" (Ta Evangelika).
May
- May 23: Chrysostom (later of Smyrna) was appointed Bishop of Drama
- May 24: Athens Mayor Spiros Mercouris is injured as the horses of his carriage go wild.
October
- October 15: German archaeologist, Rudolf Herzog, announces he has found the ancient Asklepieion on the island of Kos.
Births
December
- December 13: Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, politician, Prime Minister
- December 31: Nikos Ploumbidis, communist leader
Unknown
- Stylianos Mavromichalis, jurist and caretaker Prime Minister