Places
Gunpowder works and iron foundry
5 events
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March 1858
The village councillor welcomes King Otto and Queen Amalia
King Otto and Queen Amalia came by steamer from Nafplio to Myloi, where all the villagers met them with local music. The special councillor (ειδικός πάρεδρος) of Myloi, "Mr Loukas", had strewn the streets with myrtle and…
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17 June 1868
The national gunpowder works explodes
The national gunpowder works at Myloi blew up together with the powder magazine next to it. Five people were killed, among them a sergeant and two powder makers, and eight to ten more were injured. Some 6,000 to 7,000…
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29 March 1873
The arsenal's water-driven forge at Myloi
A newspaper listed 'the hammer forge at Myloi' among the branches of the army arsenal of Nafplio, together with works for saltpetre and percussion caps. The forge stood at the 'stomalimni', the outlet of the spring lake,…
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15 December 1876
A steam hammer replaces the water wheel
The arsenal decided that the forging done 'at the water wheel at Myloi' would be replaced by a steam hammer. It marked the beginning of the end for the water-driven state forge.
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26 July 1877
The gunpowder works of Myloi at full work
In the tense summer of the Russo-Turkish war, the press reported that the gunpowder works at Myloi was 'working actively'. Nine years after the explosion of 1868, powder was being made here again.
People
- Loukas Giannakopoulos Local councillor (πάρεδρος) of Myloi
- Otto, King of Greece First king of modern Greece (1833–1862)
- Amalia, Queen of Greece Queen of Greece (1836–1862)