“Victory shall be ours, but has to be in our hearts only the Greek sentiment. Anyone ready to listen servily to the foreign [powers] is a traitor.”
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Ioannis Kapodistrias
Count Ioannis Antoniou Kapodistrias, sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe.
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science · Greek statesman and diplomat (1776–1831) · politician · diplomat · physician · also Ioannis Kapodistrias, Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, Capo d’Istria, Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, John Anthony Capodistrias, Count John Anthony Capodistrias
Born 10 February 1776 · Died 27 September 1831 · Q220430
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2026· 2 entries
“Providence will decide and it will be for the best”
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2025· 1 entry
Prokerala: Ioannis Kapodistrias Airport, Kerkyra, Greece [ CFU / LGKR ]
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2019· 2 entries
Moviefone: Ioannis Kapodistrias - His Life and Work - Miniseries (2019)
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Moviefone: Ioannis Kapodistrias - His Life and Work (2019)
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2015· 1 entry
The Weather Network: Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport, GR Current Weather
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1946· 1 entry
To celebrate the anniversary of 25 March
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1944· 1 entry
Nikos Kazantzakis wrote the play "Capodistria" in his honour
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1831· 2 entries
Died 1831-09-27.
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Kapodistrias ordered the imprisonment of Petrobey Mavromichalis, who had been the leader of the successful uprising against the Turks
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1830· 1 entry
Granted legal equality to Jews in the new state; being one of the first European states to do so
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1827· 1 entry
Learned that the newly formed Greek National Assembly had, as he was the most illustrious Greek-born statesman in Europe, elected him as the first head of state of newly liberated Greece, with the title of Kyvernetes
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1822· 1 entry
Took an extended leave of absence from his position as Foreign Minister and retired to Geneva where he applied himself to supporting the Greek revolution by organising material and moral support
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1821· 2 entries
And who had expected a leadership role in the post-revolution Government
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When Kapodistrias learned that Prince Alexander Ypsilantis had invaded the Ottoman protectorate of Moldavia (modern north-eastern Romania) with the aim of provoking a general uprising in the Balkans against the Ottoman E
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1819· 1 entry
Awarded Legion of Honour (1819).
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1818· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (Congress Poland) (1818).
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And in 1819 he went to London to discuss the islanders' grievances with the British government, but the British gave him the cold shoulder, partly because, uncharacteristically, he refused to show them the memorandum he
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1814· 1 entry
Founded in Vienna the "Philomuse Society", an educational organization promoting philhellenism, which included funding scholarships for Greeks in Europe
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1809· 1 entry
Kapodistrias entered the service of Alexander I of Russia
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1807· 1 entry
The French re-occupied the islands and dissolved the Septinsular Republic
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1802· 1 entry
Founded an important scientific and social progress organisation in Corfu, the "National Medical Association", of which he was an energetic member
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1776· 1 entry
Born 1776-02-10.
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