July 1

Events

1428: Future emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus marries Maddalena Tocco, his first wife.
1863: France, Britain and Russia sign an agreement with Denmark concerning the election of Prince George as King of Greece.
1920: The Greek Army enters Panormos during the first Greek offensive of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
1927: A major earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) strikes Laconia.
1946: The first eleven special military courts are set up in Greece following the Emergency Measures Act of June 17.
1963: Aristotle Onassis acquires Skorpios island off the coast of Lefkada.
1995: Former Crown Prince Pavlos marries American Marie-Chantal Miller in London. 10 New Democracy MPs attend the wedding causing a stir in Greek politics
2009: A ban on smoking in nearly all enclosed public places goes into effect throughout Greece.

1973: Spyros Kontosoros breaks the Greek record in the 3000m steeplechase with 8:25.6.
1976: Apostolos Kathiniotis breaks the Greek record in the triple jump with 16.61m.
2004 - The Greek National Football Team advances to the Euro 2004 final game after beating the Czech Republic 1-0 (silver goal in extra time by Traianos Dellas).
2009: Two members of Greece's weightlifting team at the Mediterranean Games in Italy test positive for doping, according to the head of the Greek Weightlifting Federation (EOAB): Nikos Kourtidis, who won two gold medals in the men's 94-kg category, and Konstantina Lapou, who took silver in the women's 58-kg.

1839: Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence