The Greek Parliament, after weeks of debate, formally invited Prince William of Denmark to become the nation's monarch. William accepted in a formal ceremony in Copenhagen a week later and became King George I of Greece, ending a six-month international crisis over who would succeed the deposed Greek ruler Otto I, a Bavarian prince who had ruled for thirty years. (By Brian Bockelman)
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Neville Williams, ed., Chronology of World History (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 3: 310.
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