1922
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Events
July
- July 18: *1922: The Greek government declares Asia Minor independent, after truce signing negotations with Turkey fail.
August
- August 26: The Battle of Afyon Karahisar commences.
- August 30: The Battle of Afyon Karahisar ends in defeat for the Greek army.
September
- September 9: Turkish troops enter Smyrna.
- September 13: Smyrna is set ablaze by the Turkish army. For the next three days the city will burn out of control and an estimated 100,000 Greeks and Armenians will be killed.
- September 27: King Constantine I abdicates the throne.
October
- October 11: The Armistice of Mudanya is signed between Britain, France, Italy on the one hand and Turkey on the other.
- October 14: Greece acceeds to the Armistice of Mudanya.
- October 20: The peace conference which eventually produces the Treaty of Lausanne, commences.
November
- November 28: Five members of the Laiko Party - Dimitrios Gounaris, Nikolaos Stratos, Petros Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Theotokis, Georgios Baltatzis - as well as General Georgios Hadjianestis are executed at Goudi, Athens, for their role in the Asia Minor disaster.
Births
February
- February 22: Apostolos Santas, member of the Greek Resistance who lowered the swastika from the Acropolis, Athens.
August
- August 15: Giorgos Mouzakis, composer
November
- November 3: Spiros Kelogerou, actor
December
- December 2: Iakovos Kambanellis, theatrical playwriter
- December 11: Grigoris Bithikotsis, singer
Deaths
September
October
- October 24: : Andreas Karkavitsas, writer, physician