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Revision as of 11:17, June 17, 2021
Contents
Events
January
- January 4: The number of deaths, due to COVID-19 in Greece, reaches the 5,000 mark.
- January 4: Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffles his cabinet.
February
- February 9: Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a near-total lockdown in Attica until February 28, citing a "worrying" rise in hospitalizations and the spread of the Covid-19 variants which are more transmissible.
- February 15: The heaviest snowfall to hit Greece in 12 years triggers power cuts and disrupts transport throughout the country.
March
- March 3: A powerful earthquake, measuring 6 on the Richter scale, strikes the Elassona area.
- March 9: More than 5,000 people demonstrate in Nea Smyrni after a video is shown of a police officer beating a protester two days earlier. A Greek policeman is seriously injured during the protests.
- March 25: Greece celebrates the 200th anniversary of her independence with parades that are broadcast to the general public due to the COVID19 epidemic.
April
- April 9: Veteran crime reporter, Giorgos Karaivaz, is shot dead as he exits his car, outside his house in Alimos.
- April 18: Greece and Israel sign a record-breaking $1.65 billion defence procurement deal.
- April 25: Greece mourns its 10,000th casualty due to COVID-19.
May
- May 22: PAOK defeat Olympiakos 2-1 to lift the Greek Football Cup for the eighth time in their history.
- May 23: A Ryanair passenger plane, flying from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, with Greek passengers aboard, is forced to land in Minsk by Belarus authorities.
- May 30: Parliamentary elections are held in Cyprus. The governing party, DISY gathers the largest share of the vote - 27.77% - followed by AKEL at 22.34%, however both parties suffer noticeable losses as smaller parties make gains.
June
- June 11: Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Alexander Zverev 3-2 sets to become the first Greek to make it to the final of the French Open.
- June 16: A Labour Reform bill passes the Hellenic Parliament with 158 votes in favour. Protests had preceeded the passage of the bill as opposition parties claimed t would erode workers rights.
Deaths
February
- February 11: Antonis Kaloyiannis, singer
May
- May 1: Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American actress
- May 27: Nikos Rolandis, Cypriot politician