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| 1954 |
| | George Grivas leads a guerrilla movement, EOKA, fighting for Cyprus's independence from Britain and union with Greece | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | Archaeologists at Olympia excavate the workshop of the Greek classical sculptor Phidias | |
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| 1965 |
| | Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London | |
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| 1967 |
| | A coup in Greece brings in an incompetent and repressive military junta that becomes known as the 'Greek colonels' | |
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| 1968 |
| | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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| c. 1977 |
| | Royal tombs are excavated at Vergina, in Macedonia, probably including that of Philip of Macedon | |
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| 2010 April 23 |
| | Greece is promised an EU and IMF bail-out package of 45 billion euros to cope with its high level of national debt | |
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| 2010 April 27 |
| | Greece's credit rating is downgraded by Standard & Poor to BB+ ('junk'), causing a run on global stock markets | |
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| 2010 May 1 |
| | Severe austerity measures in Greece persuade Germany to back an increased EU and IMF bail-out package of 110 billion euros | |
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| 2011 July 22 |
| | Eurozone leaders agree a second bail-out package for Greece of €109 billion | |
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