On this day

18/12/1803

The dance at Zalongo. Twenty-two Souliot women in danger of capture by Turk-Albanians escaped with their children to the Rock of Zalongo. There they sang and danced before they first threw their children off the precipice and then jumped themselves, preferring death to dishonor.

18/12/1943

German occupation forces executed 118 inhabitants of Drakeia village in Magnesia.