total of about 30,000 people perish. 1821, 15 October: Turkish Cypriot mobs hang most of the Greek Cypriots in Larnaca and other towns, among them an archbishop, five bishops, thirty six ecclesiastics 1822, 9 April: After a month's resistance, the city of Naousa is captured by Abdul Abud, devastating the city and massacring its Greek population. Ending of the Greek revolution in Macedonia. 1822: The Chios massacre occurs. A total of about 100,000 people perish, mostly Greeks. 1822, 26 July, Battle at Dervenakia. A decisive victory of the Greeks which saved the revolution. 1823, 18 January: Nafplio becomes the site of the Revolutionary Government. 1823, March: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, represented by George Canning, recognizes the Greeks as a nation at war, thus recognizing de facto the Greek Independence. 1824, 7–8 June: The civilization of the island of Kasos is completely destroyed by the Turkish-Egyptian forces of Hussein Rushdi Pasha. About 7,000 people perish. 1824, 21 June: More than 15,000 Greeks of Psara are slaughtered by the forces of Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. 1824: The First Siege of Missolonghi occurs. 1825, 22 May: Laskarina Bouboulina is assassinated in Spetses. 1825, 5 June: Odysseas Androutsos is assassinated in Athens. 1825, 22 June: Ibrahim Pasha retakes Tripoli, kills the Greek population and destroys the city and its walls. 1825, 6 November: Beginning of the Third Siege of Missolonghi. 1826, 10–11 April: The Sortie of Missolonghi occurs. Approximately 8,000 Greek soldiers and civilians perish. 1826, 24 June: Battle of Vergas. 1826, 11 November: Prime Minister Andreas Zaimis transfers the site of the government to Aegina. 1827, 22–24 April: Battle of Phaleron. Georgios Karaiskakis is killed in action. 1827, July 6: Signing of the Treaty of London. 1827, 20 October: Battle of Navarino. 1828, 24 January: John Capodistria is elected Governor of Greece. 1828, 31 January: Alexander Ypsilantis dies in Vienna. First Hellenic Republic (1828–1832) The First Hellenic Republic (Greek: Αʹ Ελληνική Δημοκρατία) is a historiographic term used for a series of councils and "Provisional Governments" during the Greek War of Independence. During the first stages of the rebellion, various areas elected their own regional governing councils. These were replaced by the united administration at the First National Assembly of Epidaurus during early 1822, which also adopted the first Greek Constitution. A series of National Assemblies ensued, while Greece was threatened with collapse due to civil war and the victories