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| 1984, Jan. 10 |
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| Parliament approved a law that legalized equal pay for equal work by women and men. | 1 |
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| 1985, March 10 |
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| President Karamanlis resigned after the ruling Socialist Party withdrew support for his reelection. Christo Sartzetakis was elected president on March 29. | 2 |
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| 1989, June 18 |
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| A general election in which no party won an overall majority led to a temporary Conservative-Communist coalition, with Tzannis Tzannetakis (New Democracy) as prime minister. PASOK suffered a serious political defeat because of its involvement in a bank scandal (the Koskotas affair) and other political corruption. | 3 |
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| Nov. 5 |
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| Another election was called. New Democracy increased its share of the vote, and PASOK increased its share as well, but the left-wing alliance fell. None had a clear majority in the parliament, and an all-party alliance was formed, led by Zenophon Zolotas, a nonpolitical former governor of the Bank of Greece. He would stay in office until the April elections. | 4 |
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