Born Georgios Angelopoulos from the village of Dimitsana in Arcadia the Peloponnese. He was a…
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The First National Assembly of Epidaurus adopted the first Greek Constitution on January 1, 1822.…
Manos Loizos was considered one of the most iconic Cypriot composers of his time. He…
October 14 marks the death of Hellenic Army officer Pavlos Melas who was one of…
The Balkan League, comprising of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, declared war against the Ottoman…
It was September 18, 1834, when by decree of Otto’s regency, Athens was declared the…
A devastating earthquake hit Athens on September 7, 1999- leaving 143 people dead, 700 injured…
On August 29, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Beheading of John the Baptist John…
On this day, 19 August, in 1928 the Liberal Party of Eleftherios Venizelos wins Greece’s…
Cypriot airplane belonging to Helios Airways plowed into a hill north of Athens on 14 August 2005 , killing all 121 people onboard in the worst airline disaster in Greek history.
June 27, 2013, was a game-changing day for the Milwaukee Bucks. On this day in…
On May 3, 1837, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, or simply known as…
The fall of Troy refers to the siege and destruction of the ancient city of…
The Venus (Aphrodite) de Milo, maybe the most recognizable of all ancient Greek statues was…
Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου) was a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology and…
The first Greek Constitution was adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus on January…
November 12, 333 BC. The second triumph of M. Alexander over the Persians, after Granikos, in the Battle of Issus. This time, his opponent was their king himself, Darius III, who panicked and fled in disorder. Losses of Persians 30,000, Greeks 7,000
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), or more commonly…
The Balkan League, comprising of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, declared war against the Ottoman…
Cypriot airplane belonging to Helios Airways plowed into a hill north of Athens on 14 August 2005 , killing all 121 people onboard in the worst airline disaster in Greek history.
