Person
George I of Greece
George I, a Danish prince, was elected king of the Hellenes in 1863 after the deposition of Otto and reigned for fifty years. Britain ceded the Ionian Islands on his accession in 1864, Thessaly was gained in 1881, and the Balkan Wars brought Macedonia, Epirus and Crete. He accepted a democratic constitution in 1864 and was assassinated in Thessaloniki in March 1913.
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