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| 1864 |
| | | The island of Corfu is ceded by Britain to the kingdom of Greece | |
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| 1885 |
| | | A secret revolutionary group (Union and Progress, later known as the Young Turks) is formed in Salonika in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The first modern Olympic Games, organized by Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904 | |
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| 1912 |
| | | An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia | |
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| 1912 |
| | | By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Treaty of Bucharest assigns to Greece nearly all the Greek-speaking regions in the Balkans and Mediterranean | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece | |
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