Twenty years: 40 different governments, a new Constitution, the first referendum, the transformation of the monarchy into a kingdom and the Senate into a Parliament, the first modern-style elections, the first Special Court for a prime minister, an uprising that overthrew a revolution, and the 48-hour war that was not a war.
These are just some of the political events that marked the historical course of the modern Greek state in the period 1860-1880. Following research in private archives, with previously unpublished secret documents, in the Diplomatic and Historical Archives Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the minutes of the sessions of the Parliament, secret processes have come to light that led to the dethronement of a king, the overthrow of many governments and the drawing of new borders in the Balkans.
All of the above, along with the current events of those years, are presented through the prism of the domestic and international press. The role of fake news, scandals, populism, corruption, crime and the role of the Church are only a few pieces of the mosaic of modern Greek society in the 1860s and 1870s, when the foundations were laid for the transformation of a weak and institutionally lame kingdom into a state according to Western standards. The difficulties were many, the adventures for the Greek people even more, while, in some cases, the mistakes of those directly and indirectly involved had disastrous consequences.