1912

Events

April

• April 26: Italian forces capture Rhodes.

May

• May 13: First lieutenant Dimitrios Kamberos flies the first military plane in Greek history: a Henry Farman aircraft.

June

• June 24: Four people die during a heatwave in Athens.

October

• October 26: The Greek army liberates Thessaloniki

December

• December 3: The Greek Navy led by Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis on board the flagship Averoff, forces the Ottoman navy to retreat to the Dardanelles
• December 5: Greece uses for the first time airplanes to drop bombs at Bizani

Births

January

• January 1: Nikiforos Vrettakos, poet

Deaths

April

• April 3: Grigoris Lambrakis, politician

November

• November 29: Lorentzos Mavilis, poet