Although parties were centered around the individual leaders, often bearing their names, two broad political tendencies existed: the liberals, led first by Charilaos Trikoupis and later by Eleftherios Venizelos, and the conservatives, led initially by Theodoros Deligiannis and later by Thrasivoulos Zaimis.

Trikoupis favoured co-operation with Great Britain in foreign affairs, the creation of infrastructure and an indigenous industry, raising protective tariffs and progressive social legislation, while the more populist Deligiannis depended on the promotion of Greek nationalism and the Megali Idea.

The job of prime minister alternated between Charilaos Trikoupis and Theodoros Deligiannis frequently during the last years of the 19th century.

In the following elections Trikoupis was defeated, and the new Prime Minister, Theodoros Deligiannis, seeking to downplay hostility between government and the Palace, regarded the matter closed.

After Deligiannis ' electoral victory over Trikoupis in 1895, those who favored a revival of the Olympic Games, including the Crown Prince, prevailed.

The Nationalists were later led by Theodoros Deligiannis who famously said " was against everything Trikoupis was for.

" This two-party system existed until 1910, even as Georgios Theotokis took over the New Party after the death of Trikoupis in 1895 and the assassination of Deligiannis in 1905 which led to a splintering of parties on the conservative and nationalist side.

Greek satirical poster of 1895 depicting Trikoupis and his main political opponent Theodoros Deligiannis.

Corruption and Trikoupis ' increased spending to create necessary infrastructure like the Corinth Canal overtaxed the weak Greek economy, forcing the declaration of public insolvency in 1893 and to accept the imposition of an International Financial Control authority to pay off the country's debtors.

* 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled " Who's to Blame?

* 1832 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician ( d. 1896 )

Universal conscription was introduced in 1879, and under the premiership of Charilaos Trikoupis, in 1882 – 1885 major steps were undertaken to improve the training and education of the officer corps: a French military mission was called to Greece, new schools were founded and Greek officers were sent abroad for studies, and efforts were made to make officers on active service refrain from participating in politics and focus on their professional duties.

He also met and became friends with Charilaos Trikoupis-the son of the Greek ambassador to Britain Spyridon Trikoupis, himself destined to become Prime Minister of Greece.

At the time they met, Charilaos Trikoupis was just starting his diplomatic and political career as an attaché, then chargé d ' affaires, of the Greek legation.

Charilaos Trikoupis was a 19th century Greek prime minister, and suggested the idea of building a bridge between Rio and Antirrio ; however, the endeavour was too expensive at the time, when Greece was trying to get a late foot into the Industrial Revolution.

* Nikolaos Trikoupis, Greek general in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 )

From this time forward, and particularly after 1882, when Trikoupis again came into power at the head of a strong party, the duel between these two statesmen was the leading feature of Greek politics.

The result of this confusion was that a gap opened in the Greek line between Frangou and Trikoupis Groups.

The Turkish V Cavalry Corps and the First Army's units ( I, II and IV Corps ) advanced towards the Greek Frangou and Trikoupis Groups.

The Turkish I Corps advanced towards Dumlupinar and made contact with the Greek Frangou Group, while the V Cavalry Corps and the IV Corps separated the Greek Trikoupis and Frangou Group.

The Turkish forces attacked also of the eastern flank of Trikoupis Group where the Greek 12th position was.

At 23: 00 on 29 August, the badly battered Greek units of Trikoupis Group, disengaged and began marching towards Çalköy, which was thought to be weakly held by Turkish forces.

The Greek 5th division lost its way and lost contact with the Trikoupis Group.

POW Greek generals at the Kırşehir Prisoner-of-war camp | POW camp: from left to right ; Colonel Dimitrios Dimaras ( commander of 4th Division ), Major General Nikolaos Trikoupis ( commander of I Corps ), Staff Colonel Adnan or Kemalettin Sami Gökçen | Kemaleddin Sami, Major General Kimon Digenis ( commander of II Corps ) and Lieutenant Emin.

Trikoupis nevertheless believed that he could raise the value of Greek paper currency to par in a short time, and all his calculations were based upon that assumption.

Despite the Greek government receiving more than generous funding from Evangelis Zappas, back in 1856, for Athens to host athletic Olympic Games at the Panathinaiko Stadium, in perpetuity, members of the Greek government, notably Trikoupis and Stephanos Dragoumis, were resoundingly against them being athletic games.

Trikoupis stood before parliament and made the most famous statement of his career: " Regretfully, we are bankrupt ") ( Greek: " Δυστυχώς επτωχεύσαμεν ").

Trikoupis is considered as one of the greatest modern Greek politicians for his reformist and modernising programs as well as for the introduction of the dedilomeni principle.

Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupis asked the King to recommend that his son avoid such interventions in politics without prior consultation with the government.

Despite Trikoupis ' anti-athletic politics, the Zappeion not only was the first indoor Olympic arena, hosting fencing in 1896, it also became the first Olympic Village in 1906.

Family names such as Zaimis, Rallis and Trikoupis occurred repeatedly as Prime Ministers.

The Hellenic Parliament in the 1880s, with PM Charilaos Trikoupis standing at the podium.

Initially, the royal prerogative in choosing his prime minister remained and contributed to governmental instability, until the introduction of the dedilomeni principle of parliamentary confidence in 1875 by the reformist Charilaos Trikoupis.

* July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis, seven-time Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1896 )

Because of this financial and political instability, both prime minister Trikoupis and Stephanos Dragoumis, the president of the Zappas Olympic Committee, which had attempted to organise a series of national Olympiads, believed that Greece could not host the event.

The incident caused a heated debate in Parliament, and Trikoupis finally resigned as a result.

The organization of the first modern Olympics in Athens was another issue which caused a Constantine-Trikoupis confrontation, with Trikoupis opposed to hosting the Games.

In 1875, Koumoundouros was successful in uniting all other parliamentary parties against Charilaos Trikoupis.

In the next 15 years, the party structures began to evolve into more modern ideological parties with the Nationalist Party led by Alexandros Koumoundouros on the right and the more liberal New Party led by Charilaos Trikoupis.

Trikoupis was successful after the election of 1874 in forcing the king to accept the " dedilomeni principle " ()-- that the leader of the majority in parliament must be selected as prime minister by the king.

During the government of Charilaos Trikoupis in 1889, the fleet was further increased with the acquisition of new battleships: Hydra, Spetsai, and Psara from France.