* 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.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias ( 1776 – 1831 ), Greek patriot and first governor of the Greek state ( 1828 – 1831 ) his family hailed originally from Koper / Capodistria

She was survived by her husband, and her one daughter from her first marriage to Ioannis Paxinos, whose surname she had been using after their divorce.

* Ioannis Pallikaris ( Greece ) Performed the first laser-assisted intrastromal keratomileusis or LASIK surgery.

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

Ioannis Rinopoulos ), the first full-scale opera in Greek.

During the period of the 4th of August Regime ( 1936 – 1941 ), the labrys was used as the main symbol of the regime-sponsored National Organisation of Youth ( EON ), as its leader, Ioannis Metaxas believed the symbol to be the first symbol of all Hellenic civilizations.

The term appeared for the first time during the debates of Prime Minister Ioannis Kolettis with King Otto that preceded the promulgation of the 1844 constitution.

In qualifying races for the 1896 Summer Olympics, Greek runners Kharilaos Vasilakos ( 3: 18: 00 ) and Ioannis Lavrentis ( 3: 11: 27 ) won the first two modern marathons.

In the first presidential elections for independent Cyprus, AKEL backed Ioannis Kliridis ( father of Glafkos Klerides ) against Makarios III.

In the first presidential elections Clerides backed Makarios III, the other candidate being his father Ioannis Clerides.

Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, first head of state of newly liberated Greece, set foot on the Greek mainland for the first time in Nafplio on 7 January 1828 and made it the official capital of Greece in 1829.

Such climatic and biological diversity, along with the rich flora and fauna that comes with it, made the need for the creation of national parks obvious as early as 1937, when the government of Ioannis Metaxas, first issued a law that established national parks in Greece.

Among its most widely known members were Costas Simitis, subsequently Prime Minister of Greece, Nikos Konstantopoulos, subsequently president of the Synaspismos party, professor of economics in Panteion UniversitySakis Karagiorgas, George Magkakis, professor of criminal law in the University of Athens, general Georgios Iordanidis, a well known military analyst and a national security advisor of George Papandreou sr during his administration, Vasilis Filias, professor of sociology in Panteion University, lawyer Dimosthenis Konaris, John Starakis, a journalist, Christos Rokofyllos, subsequently minister of Foreign Affairs, Dimitrios Kotsakis, a trade union member, Athanasios Filias, a mechanical engineer, Georgios Kouvelakis, subsequent minister of Justice, brothers Antonios Michalakeas ( subsequently, a judge of the supreme court of Greece ) and Athanassios Michalakeas ( subsequently a president of the court of Appeal ), Georgios Kosmas ( later on also a member of the supreme court of Greece ), Spyros Plaskovitis ( later on also a juge of the supreme court of Greece and a member of the European Parliament elacted with PASOK ), Ioannis Papadopoulos, a well known plastic surgeon ( later on a minister of Health during the first government formed by PASOK in 1981 ) etc.

The political experience of administering the Republic was hugely important for the young Ioannis Kapodistrias, who thereby attracted Russian patronage, and would later became the first governor of independent Greece.

The first Cretans to be commissioned as lieutenants on 14 January 1907, in order of seniority, were: Evangelos Sarris, Dimitrios Kokkalas, Andreas Androylakis, Alexandros Hatzioannou, Nikiforos Nikiforakis, Zaharias Mprillakis, Ilias Mourginakis, Minos Mylogjannakis, Emannouel Vogiatzakis, Georgios Vouros, and Ioannis Souris.

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

Outstanding Greek public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period ; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death ; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister ( 1955 – 63, 1974 – 80 ) and president ( 1980 – 85 ) of Greece ; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ( 1963 – 65 ); and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

In his memoirs, KKE leader Ioannis Ioannidis wrote about a regional Communist cadre who proclaimed the following as Greece was being bombed by the axis: " The Germans will not bomb us.

* Ioannis Metaxas, Greek dictator during the 4th of August Regime from 1936 until his death in 1941, assumed the title of Αρχηγός ( Archigós, ) meaning " leader ".

The team's leader was Ioannis Chrysafis.

* Ioannis Passalidis, the most prominent of the EDA co-founders and leader of its group in the Parliament from 1951 until 1967.

Ioannis Metaxas, the authoritarian leader of the regime.

In 1830 Paparrigopoulos travelled to Greece to study in the " Central School " ( Κεντρικό Σχολείο ) of Aegina, founded by the Greek leader Ioannis Kapodistrias.