1913

Events

January 5: The Naval Battle of Lemnos commences during the First Balkan War.
January 18: The Naval Battle of Lemnos ends in Greek victory.
January 24: The first ever combat mission involving naval forces or naval aviation in the world! First Lieutenant Mihail Moutousis and Ensign Aristidis Moraitis not only bombarded the Turkish Navy in the Bay of Nagara, they also reported the location of Turkish ships to the commander of the Hellenic Navy located in Moudros, Limnos. The mission took 2 hours 20 minutes, and the distance traveled totaled some 180 kilometers.

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 16: The Second Balkan War breaks out as Bulgaria attacks Serbia and Greece - her allies in the First Balkan War.
June 21: During the Second Balkan War, the Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas ends in victory for the Greek army.
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 29: The Battle of Kresna Gorge commences between Greece and Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.
July 31: Bulgaria signs an armistice ending hostilities in the Second Balkan War.

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.