Ionian University 1864, up to the Union of the Ionian Islands with the Greek State. Τhe Ionian University was established in 1984 by the Greek government under the Prime Ministership of Andreas Papandreou in recognition of Corfu's contribution to education in Greece as the seat of the first University of Greece, the Ionian Academy, that was established in 1824, forty years before the cession of the Ionian islands to Greece and just three years after Greece's Revolution of 1821. The Prime Ministership thus kept an election promise to the people of Corfu, satisfying their long held demand that a successor university to
1953 Ionian earthquake were also several large earthquakes on January 26 and February 3, 2014, which were measured 6.1 and 6.0 on the Richter scale. The epicenters of both were in Kefalonia at very shallow depths and caused damage to the island. On October 25, 2018 there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast that damaged parts of the Zante port dock. Following that quake, there were more than 50 additional quakes over 4 magnitiude in the Ionian Sea between the 25th and the end of October. 1953 Ionian earthquake The 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck