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On March 18, 1913, King George I of the Hellenes was shot and killed while out walking in Thessaloniki, Greece. His assassin, Alexandros Schinas, died six weeks later under somewhat mysterious circumstances. King George I of the Hellenes. source: Wikipedia. King George I of the Hellenes. King George I was born Prince Christian Vilhelm Ferdinand ...
Greek royal family. The currently deposed Greek royal family ( Greek: Βασιλική Οικογένεια της Ελλάδος [1] [2]) was the ruling family of the Kingdom of Greece from 1863 to 1924 and again from 1935 to 1973. The family is a branch of the Danish royal family, itself a cadet branch of the House of Glücksburg. The family ...
Following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (in which Greece remained neutral despite the attempts of George’s sister, Tsarevna Maria Feodorovna of Russia, to get Greece to join with the Russians), Greece claimed Crete and the regions of Epirus and Thessaly which were all under the Ottoman rule. Eventually, in 1881, the Ottomans ceded Thessaly.
When King George I of Greece was born on 24 December 1845, in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark, his father, King Christian IX of Denmark, was 27 and his mother, Princess Louise Caroline Hessen-Kassel, was 28. He married Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna Romanov of Russia on 27 October 1867, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.
Mar 18, 2013 · March 18, 1913: King George I of Greece Assassinated. The Greek conquest of Salonika on November 9, 1912 was a major historical event by any standard. Founded in 315 BCE and captured by the ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Georg_1. Georg 1. Christian Vilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg Γεώργιος George I, King of the Hellenes, Prins Vilhelm til Danmark Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg aka of Greece (24 Dec 1845 - certain 18 Mar 1913)
George I ( Greek: Γεώργιος Α΄, Geórgios I; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 30 March 1863 until his assassination in 1913. Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen, and seemed destined for a career in the Royal Danish Navy. He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National ...
