| Aug 10,1920 | Treaty of Sevres
signed but never ratified by Entente powers of Turkey. Gives Greece eastern
Thrace, the islands of Tenedos and Imbros and administration of the Smyrna
district that stays under Turkish sovereignty for five years. By a plebescite
after this period the population could ask for incorporation into the Greek
state. |
| Aug 12,1920 | Assassination
attempt on Venizelos and retaliatory death of Ion Dragoumis by fanatical
pro-Venizelists on the streets of Athens |
| Sept
30,1920 | King Alexander(1893 to 1920) bit by pet monkey
and dies of blood poisoning on October 25 |
| Nov
14, 1920 | Venizelos loses elections and leaves the country
|
| Dec 5, 1920 | Greeks vote
for King Constantine's return over the allies warnings of cutting off all aid to
Greece |
| Sept 1921 | Greek drive brings troops to
within 65 km of Ankara before being pushed back |
| Sept8/14,1922
| Smyrna evacuated after Greek army routed, 30,000
civilians killed, million refugees fled to Greece joining half a million Greeks
who had fled earlier |
| Sept 26, 1922 | Military coup in reaction to the loss in Asia Minor led by
Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas creating the Revolutionary Government results in
abdication by King Constantine, Prince George becomes King George II |
| Nov 28, 1922 | The Six, five former
ministers including the Prime Minister Gounaris, Stratou and the Commander in
Chief Hadjianesti, were executed by firing squad in reaction to the loss in
Asia Minor |
| 1922 | Collapse
of Ottoman Empire |
| Jan 30, 1923 | Convention signed by Greece and Turkey for the compulsory exchange
of minority populations except the Turks in western Thrace and the 100,000
Greeks in Constantinople. |
| July 23, 1923 | Treaty of Lausanne signed
ending Greco-Turkish War. Eastern Thrace, islands of Tenedos and Imbros
reverted to Turkey
|
| 1923 | Abortive royalist
military coup in Macedonia led by Metaxas led the Revolutionary Government to
request King George II to leave Greece until elections could be held on the
monarchy |
| 1924 | Elections
held that restored constitutional rule with Venizelos as Prime Minister and
Revolutionary Government stepped down. Venizelos resigns after a month over
monarchy question and numerous governments form and fall until 1928 |
| Apr 13, 1924 | Plebescite resulted in
69% for establishing a republic |
| Jun 25, 1925
| Political instability and general unrest among urban
workers, especially the refugees, brings on a coup by General Pangalos |
| August 1926 | Pangalos economic and
diplomatic mishandling of national affairs brings coup by General Kondylis |
| Nov 7, 1926
| Elections resulted in almost even split of
Liberals(Venizelists) and republicans vs Populists. Ten Communist deputies
elected, 8 from Macedonia |
| 1928-1932 | Venizelos returns to govern Greece. Instituted educational
reforms. Built many primary schools, made education less classical and more
practical, established demotic Greek in the schools |
| 1928 | Exchange of population increased
Greece's numbers by 3.6 million to 6.2 million inhabitants. Population of
Athens doubles between 1907 and 1928 |
| 1931 | British go off gold standard;
Greece effected by Great Depression |
| Apr 15,
1932 | Greece suspends payments on foreign loans |
| Sep 1932 | Populists form government
after close elections; 11% of vote for Left, Communist, Agrarians |
| Jan 12, 1933 | Populist government
falls, Venizelos forms government |
| Mar 5, 1933
| Close elections, Venizelos loses. Tsaldaris forms
government. Attempted coup by republicans fails. |
| Jun 6, 1933 | Venizelos escapes
assassination for role in attempted coup. The car used by the assassins
belonged to the brother of the Athens chief of Police who was appointed by
Tsaldaris. |
| Mar 1934 | Populists passed bill to
retire officers, republican officers were threatened. Also attempted to change
election laws and voting districts to insure their reelection. One of Venizelos
assassins was caught and tried twice without an outcome. |
| Mar 1, 1935 | Republicans attempt coup to
regain power. Coup failed. More than a thousands put on trial and convicted;
three officers executed as revenge for the Six. Venizelos condemned to death in
absentia, leaves country. |
| Oct 10, 1935 | General Papagos gives ultimatum to Prime Minister Tsaldaris to
restore the monarchy; Tsaldaris declares government overthrown by force;
General Kondylis forms government supported by the armed forces |
