1981

Events

May

• May 31: PAOK coach Gyula Lorant suffers a heart attack during a football match.

October

• October 21: - Andreas Papandreou is elected Prime Minister of Greece.

November

• November 23: The monotonic system (μονοτονικό σύστημα) is implemented at schools around the country in place of the polytonic system (πολυτονικό σύστημα)

December

• December 5: Adultery is decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery is revoked.
• December 10: Evangelos Averoff is elected Chairman of the New Democracy party.

Births

February

• February 5: Loukas Vyntra, Panathinaikos footballer.

June

• June 4: Giourkas Seitaridis, football player