2025
Events
January
- January 16: PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominates Hellenic Parliament Speaker, Konstantinos Tasoulas, as Greece’s next president.
- January 25: MP Konstantinos Tasoulas receives 160 votes in the first round of voting, in the Hellenic Parliament, for President of Greece.
- January 26: Thousands of Greeks protest throughout the country and abroad demanding justice for the train crash of February 28, 2023 at Tempe.
- January 31: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.90 performance.
February
- February 4: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Santorini. This earthquake is the strongest of the 550 tremors that have hit the area between Santorini, Amorgos and Ios over the past three days.
- February 8: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.92 jump in Lodz, Poland.
- February 12: Former Hellenic Parliament Speaker, Konstantinos Tasoulas, is elected President of Greece.
- February 14: Emmanouil Karalis breaks yet again the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.94 jump in Berlin, Germany.
- February 16: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 79-75 to lift the Greek Basketball Cup.
- February 22: Emmanouil Karalis breaks, for the third time in the month, the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 6.01m jump.
Births
Deaths
January
- January 1: Giorgos Bistikeas, footballer
- January 5: Costas Simitis, former PM of Greece
- January 6: Stella Greka, singer
- January 19: Kaiti Grey, singer
- January 23: Andreas Stamatiadis, footballer
- January 24: Mimis Domazos, footballer
February
- February 10: Takis Oikonomopoulos, footballer
- February 11: Giorgos Roubanis, athlete, bronze medalist in the pole vault