TIMELINE OF MODERN GREEK HISTORY

1821, March 25:

Metropolitan Germanos of Patras blesses a Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra. Greece declares its independence. Beginning of the Greek War of Independence

1821, 10 April, Easter Monday:

Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged in the central outside portal of the Patriarchate by the Ottomans. The door has remained shut and out of use ever since.

1821, 17 April:

Former Ecumenical Patriarch Cyril VI is hanged in the gate of the Adrianople's cathedral

1821, 4 April:

Constantine Mourousis, Dimitrios Paparigopoulos and Antonios Tsouras are decapitated by the Ottomans in Constantinople

1821, 5 April:

The Phanariotes Petros Tsigris, Dimitrios Skanavis and Manuel Hotzeris are decapitated, while Georgios Mavrocordatos is hanged by the Sultan forces in Constantinople

1821, 23-24 April:

Battle of Alamana. After the Greek defeat, Athanasios Diakos is impaled and put on a spit

1821, 4 May:

Metropolitans Gregorios of Derkon, Dorotheos of Adrianople, Ioannikios of Tyrnavos, Joseph of Thessaloniki, and the Phanariote Georgios Callimachi and Nikolaos Mourousis are decapitated on Sultan orders in Constantinople

1821, 9 July:

The head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church Archbishop Kyprianos, along with 470 prominent Greek Cypriots, amongst them the Metropolitans Chrysanthos of Paphos, Meletios of Kition and Lavrentios of Kyrenia, are executed by beheading or hanging by the Ottomans in Nicosia

1821, 11 September:

Tripoli falls to the Greeks, who proceed to eliminate the Ottoman garrison and officials

1822:

The Chios massacre takes place. A total of about 100,000 people perish
1822, 26 July, Battle at Dervenakia. A decisive victory of the Greeks which saved the revolution.

1823, 18 January:

Nafplio becomes the seat of the Revolutionary Government

1823, March:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under George Canning, recognizes the Greeks as a nation at war, thus recognizing de facto the Greek Independence

1824, 7-8 June:

The island of Kasos is completely destroyed by the Turkish-Egyptian forces of Hussein Rushdi Pasha

1824, 21 June:

More than 15,000 Greeks of Psara are slaughtered by the forces of Ibrahim Pasha

1824:

The First Siege of Missolonghi takes place

1825, 22 May:

Laskarina Bouboulina is assassinated in Spetses

1825, 5 June:

Odysseas Androutsos is assassinated in Athens

1825, 6 November:

Beginning of the Third Siege of Messolonghi

1826, 10-11 April:

The Siege of Messolonghi (1825)#The Escape takes place. Approximately 8,000 Greek soldiers and civilians perish

1826, 24 June:

Battle of Vergas

1826, 11 November:

Prime Minister Andreas Zaimis transfers the seat of the government to Aegina

1827, 22-24 April:

Battle of Phaleron. Georgios Karaiskakis is killed in action

1827, July 6:

Signing of the Treaty of London

1827, 20 October:

Battle of Navarino

1828, 24 January:

John Capodistria is elected Governor of Greece

1828, 31 January:

Alexander Ypsilantis dies in Vienna