1885, 6 September: Bloodless revolution in Eastern Rumelia and unification of the province with Bulgaria. 1893: Completion of the Corinth Canal. 1894, 27 April: Earthquakes occur in Atalanti. 255 people are dead. 1896, 6 April: Opening ceremonies of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. 1897, January: Cretan Rebellion. Greece refuses a Turkish offer of an autonomous administration in Crete and mobilizes for war. 1897, 25 February: Greece refuses to withdraw the Greek volunteers from Crete. The Great Powers announce a blockade of Greece. 1897, 17 April: The Ottoman Empire declares war against Greece. Greco-Turkish War (1897). 1897, 27 April: Greece loses the war, agrees to surrender Crete to international administration, to make minor territorial concessions in Thessaly in favor of the Turks and to pay a large indemnity. 1898: Creation of the Cretan State. 1904: Beginning of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. 1904, 13 October: Pavlos Melas is killed in Macedonia. 1905, 13 June: Assassination of Prime Minister Theodoros Deligiannis. 1908: Cretan deputies declare unilateral union with Greece. 1910, January: The Military League forces Parliament and King George I to summon a National Assembly to revise the Constitution of Greece. 1910, March 6: A protest in Kileler by the serfs of Thessaly for agricultural reform is violently suppressed by the Army. 1910, 2 October: Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece. First Balkan War 1912, 8 October: The members states of the Balkan League, after issuing ultimata, declare war on Turkey. Beginning of the First Balkan War. 1912, 22 October: Greek victory at the Battle of Sarantaporo. 1912, 1 November: Greek victory at the Battle of Giannitsa. 1912, 6–12 November: Greek victory at the Battle of Pente Pigadia. 1912, 9 November: The Greek army enters Thessaloniki. Most of southern Macedonia is occupied by Greece. 1912, 15 November: A Greek division marching towards Monastir is thrown back at the Battle of Vevi. 1912, 16 December: Greek victory at the Naval Battle of Elli. 1913, 18 January: Greek victory at the Naval Battle of Lemnos. 1913, 20–21 February: After overcoming Ottoman defenses in the Battle of Bizani, the Greek army enters Ioannina. Epirus is liberated. 1913, 18 March: King George I is assassinated in Thessaloniki. He's succeeded by his eldest son, King Constantine I. 1913, 30 May: Signing of the Treaty of London. End of the First Balkan War. Second Balkan War 1913, 16 June: Bulgarian forces attack Greece and Serbia.