* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )

* 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1927 )

* 1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1936 )

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

* 1918 – George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 2006 )

* 1898 – Konstantinos Dovas, Greek Greek general and interim Prime Minister ( d. 1973 )

* 1923 – Yiannis Grivas, Greek judge, 87th Prime Minister of Greece

* 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1996 )

* 1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer, politician and Prime Minister ( d. 1987 )

In early 1988, the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers met at Davos, Switzerland, and later in Brussels.

Following an official complaint from Greece on 24 December seeking clarification over comments by former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz relating to forest fires in Greece in the mid-1990s, the Greek and Turkish foreign ministers, Stavros Dimas and Ahmet Davutoglu, spoke on Wednesday 28 December.

Venizelos became Prime Minister in October 1910, ushering a period of 25 years where his personality would dominate Greek politics.

In addition, as the Commander-in-chief of the Greek Army during the Balkan Wars, his popularity was enormous, rivalled only by that of Venizelos, his Prime Minister.

* 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

* 1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

* 1968 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1907 )

* 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.

The Greek letter λ ( lambda ), is used to denote the location of a place on Earth east or west of the Prime Meridian.

* 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

* 1894 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, three times Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1964 )

* 1973 – Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.

* 1956 – Kostas Karamanlis, Greek politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece

Since 1983 ( on the initiative of Culture Minister Melina Mercouri ), the Greek government has been committed to the return of the sculptures to Greece, so far with no success.

* 1927 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 2010 )

* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.

) After his death the city was called Constantinople ( Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις or Konstantinoupolis ) (' city of Constantine ').

These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age ( about 3200 BC ) to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century AD.

Constantinople was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I on the site of an already-existing city, Byzantium, settled in the early days of Greek colonial expansion, probably around 671 – 662 BC.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

As Constantine Porphyrogennetos ' warnings show, the ingredients and the processes of manufacture and deployment of Greek fire were carefully guarded military secrets.

Hence, even after he ceased to be Greek king, it is still standard to refer to the deposed king as Constantine II of Greece.

With the declaration of war, the Greek Army of Thessaly under Crown Prince Constantine advanced to the north, successfully overcoming Ottoman opposition in the fortified Straits of Sarantaporo.

In March 1913, an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, assassinated King George in Thessaloniki, and his son came to the throne as Constantine I. Constantine was the first Greek king born in Greece and the first to be Greek Orthodox.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

Since Greece, a maritime country, could not oppose the mighty British navy, and citing the need for a respite after two wars, King Constantine favored continued neutrality, while Venizelos actively sought Greek entry in the war on the Allied side.

Even more surprisingly, Venizelos ' Liberal Party lost the elections called in November 1920, and in a referendum shortly after, the Greek people voted for the return of King Constantine from exile, following the sudden death of Alexander.

* 1688 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer ( b. 1667 )

Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius ( consul in 335 ), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a woman of Greek origin.

* Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral and statesman

During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the city was the headquarters of Greek Crown Prince Constantine.

** Constantine Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister

* Constantine the African, Carthaginian Christian physician and translator of ancient Greek medicine

Constantine the African examines patients ' urine ; he taught ancient Greek medicine and Islamic medicine at the Schola Medica Salernitana.