Filiki Eteria

Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Greek nationalists form a secret organisation called the Friendly Society

Odessa · Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Nikolaos Skoufas, Manolis Xanthos, and Athanasios Tsakalov, influenced by the Italian Carbonari and profitting from their own experience as members of Freemasonic organisations, found the secret Filiki Eteria ("Friendly Society")

Odessa · Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Nikolaos Skoufas, Manolis Xanthos, and Athanasios Tsakalov, influenced by the Italian Carbonari and profitting from their own experience as members of Freemasonic organisations, found the secret Filiki Eteria ("Friendly Society")

Odessa · Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Nikolaos Skoufas, Manolis Xanthos, and Athanasios Tsakalov, influenced by the Italian Carbonari and profitting from their own experience as members of Freemasonic organisations, found the secret Filiki Eteria ("Friendly Society")

Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Alexander Ypsilantis, a Phanariote serving in the Russian army as general and adjutant to Alexander, agrees to become leader of the Filiki Eteria

Warfare / Greek War of Independence

Alexander Ypsilantis takes over leadership of Filiki Eteria and makes preparations for a revolt, as well as for setting up a military unit towards that purpose named as the Sacred Band

Warfare / Greek War of Independence

The Filiki Eteria plan to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities and Constantinople, the first of these revolts began on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities, but it was soon put down by the Ottomans