HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF EUROPE Jon Woronoff, Series ...

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1897 Greek forces, led by Prince Constantine I, are defeated by the
Ottoman army in Thessaly.
1903 Outbreak of the Macedonian struggle against the Bulgarian
rebels.
1908 Outbreak of the Young Turks’ revolution in Thessaloniki.
1909 Revolt by the Military League in Goudi, Athens, results in parliamentary
reforms. Eleftherios Venizelos arrives in Greece.
1910 Venizelos prevails in the national elections and begins implementing
his reform program.
1911 Following the war in Libya, Italy occupies the Dodecanese
islands.
1912 Venizelos’ Liberal Party wins the national elections. First Balkan
War: Greece enters into alliances with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro
against the Ottoman Empire.
1913 Second Balkan War: Bulgaria against Greece and the Balkan
allies. King George is assassinated in Thessaloniki. King Constantine I
becomes king. 30 May: Treaty of London. 10 August: Peace Treaty of
Bucharest. Both treaties add Crete, Macedonia, Epirus, and the eastern
Aegean Islands to Greece.
1915 The National Schism (Ethnikos Dihasmos) begins, following a
disagreement between Prime Minister Venizelos and King Constantine
I on Greece’s participation in World War I.
1916 Venizelos establishes a revolutionary government in Thessaloniki
and enters World War I.
1917 King Constantine I is forced to abdicate and his second son,
Alexander, becomes king. Venizelos returns to Athens, and his government
establishes its authority over the whole of Greece.
1918 The end of World War I finds Greece among the victors.
1919 15 May: At the invitation of the Allies, Greek forces land in
western Asia Minor and occupy Smyrna (Izmir); the three-year Greek
campaign in Asia Minor begins. 27 November: With the Treaty of
Neuilly, Greece is awarded western Thrace from Bulgaria.
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