Dilessi murders
The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one Italian and three English aristocrats were murdered at Dilesi (), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia, by Greek brigands while touring the area near Marathon. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and the United Kingdom. Further reading 
 Contemporary report on the incident by Ioannes Gennadius, founder of the Gennadius Library. First modern monograph on the subject by Romilly James Heald Jenkins. References 

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