* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

* 1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece ( d. 1831 )

Ioannis Kapodistrias.

Assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias by Dionysios Tsokos.

Ioannis Kapodistrias was succeeded as Governor by his younger brother, Augustinos Kapodistrias.

* 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece ( b. 1776 )

* Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias ( Greece )

In 1956 Maria Desylla Kapodistria, relative of first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias, was elected mayor of Corfu and became the first female mayor in Greece.

Ioannis Kapodistrias ' summer home in Koukourisa in his birthplace of Corfu has been converted to a museum commemorating his life and accomplishments and has been named in his honour.

Donated by Maria Desylla Kapodistria, grand niece of Ioannis Kapodistrias, former mayor of Corfu and first female mayor of Greece.

In the same year, Alexander also forced the resignation of his ethnic Venetian / Greek foreign minister, Count Giovanni Capo d ' Istria ( Ioannis Kapodistrias, later president of the First Hellenic Republic ), for his passionate advocacy of the Greek cause.

The Greek statesman Ioannis Kapodistrias asked a French engineer to assess the feasibility of the project but had to abandon it when it was costed at some 40 million gold francs – far too expensive for the newly independent country.

On 30 June 1828, by decree of the Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias, the civil ensign was discontinued, and the cross-and-stripes naval ensign became the national ensign, worn by both naval and merchant ships.

The Executive continued to govern Greece until 1828, when the first true national government was formed, under the direction of Ioannis Kapodistrias, who as " Governor of Greece " was head of the state and the government.

During the reign of Ioannis Kapodistrias, they violently resisted outside interference to the point of killing Kapodistrias.

In 1828, modern Greece ’ s first president Ioannis Kapodistrias whose maternal ancestors were Greek Cypriots, called for union of Cyprus with Greece, and numerous minor uprisings took place.

The governorship of Ioannis Kapodistrias ( 1828 – 1831 ) saw a drastic reorganization of the national military: a Secretariat on Army and Naval Affairs and the Hellenic Army Academy were created, the Army engineering corps was founded ( 28 July 1829 ), and a concerted effort was made to reform the various irregular forces into regular light infantry battalions.

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* Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat and Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire and later the first head of state of independent Greece

Demetrios Ypsilantis ( also spelt using Dimitrios, Demetrius and / or Ypsilanti ; ; ; 1793August 16, 1832 ) was a dragoman of the Ottoman Empire, served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army in Moldavia and was appointed as modern Greece's first Field Marshal by Ioannis Kapodistrias, a hero of the Greek War of Independence.

In 1828, he was appointed by Ioannis Kapodistrias as commander of the troops in eastern Greece.

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

* 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

* 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the WWII Axis Occupation.

* The Consulate of East Greece ( Livadeia ) ( from 15 November 1821, under the Areopagus of East Greece ) was headed 1 April 1821 – 15 November 1821 by three Consuls: Lambros Nakos, Ioannis Logothetis & Ioannis Filon

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

Popular Autocracy in Greece, 1936 – 1941: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas.

* 1977 – Ioannis Okkas, Greek-Cypriot footballer

* 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.

* 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( b. 1871 )

* 1825 – Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero and benefactor ( b. 1745 )

* 1979 – Ioannis Kanotidis, Greek footballer

* 1962 – Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer

* 1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician

* 1939 – Ioannis Banias, Greek politician ( d. 2012 )

According to the diary of the German attache in Sofia at the time, Colonel von Schoenebeck, the two German doctors who attended the king – Sajitz and Hans Eppinger – both believed that the king had died from the same poison that Dr. Eppinger had allegedly found two years earlier in the postmortem examination of the Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas, a slow poison which takes weeks to do its work, and which causes the appearance of blotches on the skin of its victim before death.

* Ioannis Clerides, 1 June 1946 – 31 May 1949 ( Last elected Mayor until 1986 ).