On this day in AD 532: The Nika riots sweep across Constantinople
Rioting at sports events is nothing new. In Constantinople in AD 532 a tense day’s chariot racing triggered a week of rioting that left a terrified emperor and half the city in flames.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/day-nika-riots-sweep-across-constantinople/Wikipedia has more on the
Nika riotsMany historians date the Nika riots to 13/01/532
In case you're wondering what the Roman Empire has to do with Greece: the city was (re-)founded around 667 BC by Greek settlers who named it Byzantion. At this time there was no Greece as such, just numerous city states which shared a common Greek language and culture. They became absorbed into the Roman Empire through conquest and the populace considered themselves Roman citizens. In 330 AD Roman Emperor Konstantinos moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantion. He was quite a popular emperor and Byzantion was renamed Konstantinopolis (Konstantine's city). Following this the empire was split into two parts, the Western Roman Empire (Roman Catholic), based in Rome, and the (Greek cultured) Eastern Roman Empire (Greek Orthodox). Around 476 AD the Western Empire collapsed. The Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantine Empire) continued until 1453 when 'the city' was captured by the Turks and renamed Istanbul.
