| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 1184 BC |
Apr |
24 |
Traditional Date Of The Fall Of Troy |
| 776 BC |
|
|
First Olympic Games |
| 480 BC |
Sep |
20 |
Greeks Defeat Persians, Battle Of Salamis |
| 478 BC |
|
|
Delian League Was Formed |
| 411 BC |
Jun |
09 |
Athenian Coup Succeeds |
| 371 BC |
Jul |
06 |
Battle Leuctra: Epaminodas Defeats Cleombrotus I |
| 356 BC |
Jul |
20 |
Alexander The Great was Born |
| 336 BC |
|
|
Alexander The Great Becomes King |
| 323 BC |
Jun |
10 |
Alexander The Great Dies |
| 362 |
Feb |
21 |
Athanasius Returns To Alexandria |
| 394 |
|
|
Ancient Olympic Games Abolished |
| 526 |
May |
31 |
Antioch Earthquake Kills 250,000 |
| 961 |
Mar |
06 |
Emirate Of Crete Falls To Nikephoros Phokas |
| 1821 |
Mar |
23 |
Kalamata Battles And Falls |
| 1821 |
May |
12 |
Major Greek War Battle Fought In Valtetsi |
| 1821 |
May |
26 |
Greek Rebels Establish Peloponnesian Senate |
| 1822 |
May |
16 |
Town Of Souli Captured By Turks |
| 1824 |
Aug |
04 |
Turkey And Greece Fought In Battle Of Kos |
| 1832 |
May |
24 |
The First Kingdom Of Greece Declared |
| 1834 |
Apr |
03 |
Generals In Greek War Trialed For Treason |
| 1837 |
May |
03 |
Founding University Of Athens, Greece |
| 1863 |
Mar |
30 |
Wilhelm George Named King Of Greece |
| 1864 |
Nov |
13 |
Greece Adopted New Constitution |
| 1881 |
Mar |
26 |
Thessaly Becomes Part Of Greece |
| 1893 |
Jul |
25 |
The Corinth Canal Is In A Gulf |
| 1896 |
Apr |
15 |
I Olympiad Closes In Athens |
| 1897 |
Feb |
03 |
The Greco-Turkish War Breaks Out |
| 1898 |
Feb |
27 |
King George I Survives Assassination Attempt |
| 1905 |
Mar |
23 |
Theriso Revolt Initiated By Eleftherios Venizelos |
| 1909 |
Aug |
28 |
Greek Army Officers Launch Coup For Reforms |
| 1910 |
Nov |
28 |
Liberal Party Wins Second Greek General Election |
| 1912 |
May |
04 |
Italy Occupies The Greek Island Of Rhodes |
| 1912 |
Oct |
11 |
Greek Army Liberates City Of Kozani |
| 1912 |
Dec |
16 |
Elli: Hellenic Navy Defeats Ottomans |
| 1913 |
Mar |
04 |
Greek Army Engages The Turks |
| 1913 |
Jun |
24 |
Greece, Seriba Annul Alliance With Bulgaria |
| 1913 |
Dec |
01 |
Post-Balkan War: Crete Annexed By Greece |
| 1914 |
Mar |
25 |
Aris Is Founded In Thessaloniki |
| 1917 |
May |
30 |
Alexander I Becomes King Of Greece |
| 1917 |
Jun |
30 |
Greece Declared War On The Central Powers |
| 1922 |
Sep |
07 |
Aydin, Turkey Declares Independence From Greece |
| 1922 |
Sep |
27 |
King Of Greece Abdicates Thrown For Son |
| 1923 |
Feb |
15 |
Greece Last European Adopter Of Gregorian Calendar |
| 1924 |
Jan |
16 |
Eleftherios Venizelos Greece Prime MInister |
| 1924 |
Jul |
24 |
Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis Becomes Greek Prime Minister |
| 1932 |
May |
30 |
The National Theatre Of Greece Is Founded |
| 1932 |
Nov |
03 |
Tsaldaris Becomes 142nd Greek PM |
| 1935 |
Nov |
03 |
George II Of Greece Regains His Throne |
| 1940 |
Nov |
02 |
Greece, Italy Clash In Elaia, Kalamas |
| 1940 |
Dec |
22 |
During World War II Himarë Was Captured By Greek Army |
| 1941 |
Apr |
21 |
Tsouderos Becomes 132nd Greek PM |
| 1941 |
Apr |
27 |
German Troops Enter Athens |
| 1944 |
Apr |
05 |
Germans Execute 270 In Kleisoura, Greece |
| 1944 |
May |
05 |
German Troops Execute 216 Civilians In Greece |
| 1944 |
Aug |
22 |
German Forces Massacre In Kedros, Crete |
| 1944 |
Oct |
12 |
World War II: Athens Liberation From Germans |
| 1947 |
Jan |
24 |
Banker Dimitrios Maximo Becomes Greece's Prime Minister |
| 1963 |
May |
22 |
Lambrakis Dies From Assassination Attempt |
| 1964 |
Feb |
11 |
Greeks And Turks Fight In Cyprus |
| 1964 |
Mar |
06 |
Constantine II Becomes King Of Greece |
| 1964 |
Sep |
18 |
Constantine II Marries Princess Anne-Marie |
| 1967 |
May |
11 |
Andreas Papandreou Is Imprisoned In Athens |
| 1973 |
Nov |
17 |
Violence As Athens Polytechnic, Greek Military Clash |
| 1974 |
Dec |
08 |
Monarchy Abolished In Greece |
| 1982 |
Jun |
25 |
Greece Ends Head Shaving Of Military Recruits |
| 1983 |
Dec |
14 |
Communist Youth Begins Congress In Greece |
| 1987 |
Jan |
01 |
Greece Introduces A Value-added Tax |
| 1988 |
Dec |
14 |
ET3 TV Network Launched In Thessaloniki |
| 1991 |
Aug |
04 |
MTS Oceanos Sinks Off South Africa Coast |
| 2011 |
Jan |
01 |
Greece's Administrative System Is Kallikratis's Plan |