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This is a '''timeline of Romanian history''', comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in [[Romania]] and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see [[History of Romania]].
 
<div class="toc"> '''Millennia''': [[#1st millennium BC|1st <small>BC</small>]]{{·}}[[#1st millennium|1st]]{{·}}[[#2nd millennium|2nd]]{{·}}[[#3rd millennium|3rd]]</div>
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| || King [[Rhemaxos]] protected Greek colonies in [[Dobruja]].<ref>Kurt W. Treptow and Ioan Bolovan in "A history of Romania – East European Monographs", 1996, {{ISBN|9780880333450}}, page 17 "..Two inscriptions discovered at Histria indicate that Geto-Dacian rulers (Zalmodegikos and later Rhemaxos) continued to exercise control over that city-state around 200 BC ...."</ref><ref>The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII by Stanley M. Burstein, 1985, Index Rhemaxos Getic or Scythian ruler</ref>
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 100 <small>BC</small> || || King [[Dicomes]] ruled [[Dacia]].<ref>Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization by Ioana A Oltean, 2007, page 47, "Dicomes of the Getians"</ref>
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| || King [[Rholes]] ruled [[Dobruja]].{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| || King [[Dapyx]] ruled [[Dobruja]].{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[82 BC|82 <small>BC</small>]] || || King [[Burebista]] rules [[Dacia]]. (to 44 <small>BC</small>){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[44 BC|44 <small>BC</small>]] || || [[Deceneus]] is High Priest of [[Dacia]]. (to 27 <small>BC</small>){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| 40 <small>BC</small> || || King [[Cotiso]] ruled [[Banat]] and [[Oltenia]]. (to 9 <small>BC</small>){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[29 BC|29 <small>BC</small>]] || || King [[Zyraxes]] ruled northern [[Dobruja]]. (to 27 <small>BC</small>){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[9 BC|9 <small>BC</small>]] || || King [[Comosicus]] ruled [[Dacia]]. (to <small>AD</small> 30){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[AD 30|30]] || || King [[Scorilo]] ruled [[Dacia]]. (to 70){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[AD 68|68]] || || King [[Duras (Dacian king)|Duras]] ruled [[Dacia]]. (to 87){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[AD 86|86]] || || Roman Emperor [[Domitian]] loses war with the Kingdom of [[Dacia]]. (to 88){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| [[AD 87|87]] || || King [[Decebalus]] ruled [[Dacia]]. (to 106){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| 101 || || [[First Dacian War|First war between the Roman Empire]] and [[Dacia]] which ended in an unfavorable peace treaty for emperor [[Trajan]]. (to 102){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| 105 || || Peace broken, [[Decebalus|King Decebalus]] loses [[Second Dacian War]], the south-west part of Dacia becomes a [[Roman province]]. (to 106){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| 170 || || The [[Costoboci]] tribe invades Roman territory.{{sfn|Cortés|1995|pp=191–193}}{{sfn|Kovács|2009|p=198}}{{sfn|Birley|2000|p=168}}{{sfn|Kovács|2009|p=198}}{{sfn|SchiedelScheidel|1990}}{{sfn|Croitoru|2009|p=402}} Meeting little opposition, they swept through and raided the provinces of [[Moesia Inferior]], [[Moesia Superior]], [[Thracia (Roman province)|Thracia]], [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] and [[Achaea (Roman province)|Achaea]].{{sfn|Birley|2000|p=165}}{{sfn|Croitoru|2009|p=402}}{{sfn|Johnson|2011|p=206}} (to 171)
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| 177 || || Written on bronze tablets, the Roman laws of Troesmis attest the joint rule of Roman emperors [[Marcus Aurelius]] and [[Commodus]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.digi24.ro/special/campanii-digi24/romania-furata/romania-furata-cine-are-interesul-sa-continue-furturile-de-aur-din-siturile-arheologice-897457 |title = România furată. Cine are interesul să continue furturile din siturile arheologice| date=March 18, 2018 }}</ref><ref>[http://revistapeuce.icemtl.ro/wp-content/uploads/Arhiva-Peuce-Serie-noua/11-Peuce-SN-XII-2014/09-Alexandrescu-Gugl-Peuce-SN-12-2014ca.pdf Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu, Christian Gugl, ''Troesmis și romanii la Dunărea de Jos. Proiectul Troesmis 2010–2013'']</ref> (to 180)
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| 260 || || After the defeat and capture of Roman emperor [[Valerian (emperor)|Valerian]], [[Dacians|Dacian]] general [[Regalianus]] became Roman emperor for a brief period.<ref name=Akerman>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-NCAAAAIAAJ&q=Regalianus&pg=PA80|title=A descriptive catalogue of rare and unedited Roman coins:from the earliest period of the Roman coinage, to the extinction of the empire under Constantinus Paleologos|first=John Yonge |last=Akerman|page=80|year=1834}}</ref>
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| 271 || || [[Roman withdrawal from Dacia]] occurs under Roman emperor [[Aurelian|Aurelianus]]us after 169 years of rule. (to 275){{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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| 305 || May || [[Galerius]], born in [[Sofia|Serdica]]<ref name="thelatinlibrary.com">[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/eutropius/eutropius9.shtml#22 Eutropius. Breviarivm historiae romanae, IX, 22] {{in lang|la}}</ref> ([[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]]), whose mother had fled from Dacia Traiana, becomes and rules as [[Roman Emperor]]. He is also awarded six [[Carpicus Maximus]] titles after winning six battles against the [[Carpi (people)|Carps]].<ref>[http://oracle-vm.ku-eichstaett.de:8888/epigr/epieinzel_en?p_belegstelle=CIL+03%2C+06979&r_sortierung=Belegstelle CIL III.6979]</ref> Galerius died in late April or early May 311<ref>{{citation | last = Corcoran | first = Simon | title = The empire of the tetrarchs: imperial pronouncements and government, AD 284–324 | page = 187}}</ref> from a horribly gruesome disease described by [[Eusebius]]<ref>Eusebius, ''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Historia Ecclesiae]]'' 352–356</ref> and [[Lactantius]],<ref>Lactantius, ''De Mortibus Persecutorum'' 33</ref> possibly some form of [[Colorectal cancer|bowel cancer]], [[gangrene]] or [[Fournier gangrene]]. (to 311)
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 308 || || Dacian-born [[Maximinus II]] (Galerius' nephew) becomes [[Roman Emperor]]. He competed with [[Licinius]] in the [[Civil wars of the Tetrarchy]]. He ruled together with other [[Roman Emperors]] as per the [[Civil wars of the Tetrarchy]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} (to 313)
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| || [[Licinius I]], born to peasant family which had fled from Dacia Traiana,<ref name=Jones509>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=A.H.M. |last2=Martindale |first2=J.R. |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD260-395 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1971 |page=509}}</ref><ref name=DiMaio>{{cite web |url=http://www.roman-emperors.org/licinius.htm |last=DiMaio |first=Michael Jr. |title=Licinius (308–324 A.D.) |work=De Imperatoribus Romanis |date=February 23, 1997}}</ref> becomes [[Roman Emperor]] of the eastern part of the [[Roman Empire]]. He was the childhood friend of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Galerius]]. (to 324)
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| 311 || || Galerius signs the [[Edict of Serdica]] (modern day [[Sofia]], Bulgaria) thus officially ending the [[Diocletianic persecution]] of Christianity in the East two years before the Edict of Milan being the first edict legalizing Christianity.<ref name="Gibbon2008">{{cite book|author=Edward Gibbon|title=The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pksA7j6ZXLgC&pg=PA132|date=January 1, 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-122-1|pages=132–}}</ref>
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 313 || || Shortly before [[Maximinus II]]'s death at Tarsus, while previously persecuting Christians and opposing the Edict of Serdica, he issued an edict of tolerance on his own, granting Christians the rights of assembling, of building churches, and the restoration of their confiscated properties.<ref>''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Ecclesiastical History]]'', X, 7–11</ref>
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| February || Licinius I co-authored the [[Edict of Milan]] with [[Roman Emperor]] [[Constantine I]] thus bestowing legal status on the Christian religion. Christianity was later made the official religion of the [[Roman Empire]] under [[Roman Emperor]] [[Theodosius I]] in 380.
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| || According to [[Lactantius]]' literary chronicle [[De mortibus Persecutorum]], Galerius affirms his Dacian (Thracian<ref name="thelatinlibrary.com"/>) identity by avowing himself the enemy of the Roman name once made emperor, even proposing that the empire should be called the "Dacian Empire". He exhibited anti-Roman attitude as soon as he had attained the highest power, treating the Roman citizens with ruthless cruelty, like the conquerors treated the conquered, all in the name of the same treatment that the victorious Trajan had applied to the conquered Dacians, forefathers of Galerius, two centuries before.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leadbetter |first1=William Lewis |title=Galerius and the Will of Diocletian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBBjy7l-NWQC&q=dacian+empire |via=Google Books |access-date=September 21, 2018 |page=number unavailable in preview |format=eBook |year=2009 |publisher=Routledge |quote=Lactantius, for example, noted that Galerius intended to change the name of the Empire from "Roman" to "Dacian", and was an enemry of tradition and culture (22.4).|isbn=9781135261320 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schaff |first1=Philip |title=Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 7 |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf07.iii.v.xxvii.html?highlight=dacian#highlight |publisher=Christian Classics Ethereal Library |access-date=September 21, 2018 |page=Chapter 27 |format=eBook |year=1885 |quote=Long ago, indeed, and at the very time of his obtaining sovereign power, he (Galerius) had avowed himself the enemy of the Roman name; and he proposed that the empire should be called, not the Roman, but the Dacian empire}}</ref> (to 316)
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| March 1 || [[Licinius II]] (Licinius I's son) serves in the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] with the rank of [[Caesar]] as per the inscription "LICINIUS IUNior NOBilissimus CAESar" which translates as 'Licinius Junior Most Noble Caesar'. (to 324)
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| 324 || || [[Constantine I]] defeats [[Licinius I]] at the [[Battle of Chrysopolis]] and becomes [[Roman Emperor]] during the [[Civil wars of the Tetrarchy]].
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| 325 || || [[Licinius I]] is hanged by Constantine due to being accused of conspiring to raise troops among the barbarians.<ref name=Gibbon>{{cite book |last=Gibbon |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Gibbon |title=The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |volume=II |year=1776 |chapter=Chapter XIV}}</ref>
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| 326 || || [[Licinius II]] is killed by the Roman Emperor Constantine, probably in the context of the execution of Caesar [[Crispus]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Michael |year=1993 |title=The Emperor Constantine |location=London |isbn=0-7538-0528-6 |pages=47–48}}</ref>
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| 333 || || The [[Itinerarium Burdigalense]] mentions Troesmis.<ref name="ReferenceA">Laura-Diana Cizer, Toponimia județului Tulcea: considerații sincronice și diacronice, 303 pag., Editura Lumen, 2012</ref> (to 334)
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| 353 || || The Roman soldier and historian [[Ammianus Marcellinus]] places the [[Carps]] as living inside the [[Roman Empire]].<ref>Ammianus XXVIII.1.5; XXVII.5.5</ref> (to 378)
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| 370 || || [[Alaric I]] is born on [[Peuce Island]], [[Dobruja]], modern-day [[Romania]]. He later led the [[Goths]] in the [[Sack of Rome (410)]].
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| 381 || || The Byzantine chronicler [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] records an invasion over the Danube by a barbarian coalition of [[Huns]], [[Sciri]] and what he terms Karpodakai, or [[Carpo-Dacians]], as being defeated by emperor [[Theodosius]].<ref>Zosimus, Historia Nova, IV (114)</ref>
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| || A 5th–6th century Christian basilica was discovered in 2012 at [[Noviodunum]]. According to the archeologist Florin Topoleanu, the population of 5th century Noviodunum was Christian.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Manolache|first1=Dumitru|title=The 5th–6th century Christian basilica at Noviodunum|url=http://ziarullumina.ro/bazilica-crestina-de-secol-v-vi-de-la-noviodunum-117719.html|access-date=May 28, 2018|publisher=Ziarul Lumina|date=November 23, 2016}}</ref> (to 600)
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| || [[Blachernae]] was a suburb of [[Constantinople]]. The Romanian philologist Ilie Gherghel, wrote a study about Blachernae and concluded that it possibly derived from the name of a Vlach (sometimes written as Blach or Blasi), who came to Constantinople from the lower Danube, a region named today [[Dobruja]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gherghel|1920|pp=4–8}}</ref> Gherghel compared data from old historians like [[Genesios]] and from the Greek lexicon ''Suidas'' and mentioned the existence of a small colony of Vlachs in the area of today Blachernae. Similar opinions were sustained by Lisseanu.<ref>G. Popa Lisseanu, Continuitatea românilor în Dacia, Editura Vestala, Bucuresti, 2014, p.78</ref>
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| 571 || || A bronze coin from the time of the [[Eastern Roman Emperor]] [[Justin II]] was discovered at Troesmis.<ref name="revistapontica.files.wordpress.com"/> (to 573)
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| 587 || || First written record about a Romance language spoken in Southeastern Europe: a Byzantine soldier, native to [[Thrace]] (in present-day [[Bulgaria]], Greece or Turkey), shouted at his companion ''"torna, torna fratre"'' ("turn around, turn around, brother") during a Byzantine campaign against the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] invading the [[Balkan Peninsula]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Georgescu |first=Vlad |year=1991 |title=The Romanians: A History |url=https://archive.org/details/romanianshistory0000geor |url-access=registration |publisher=Ohio State University Press |isbn= 0-8142-0511-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/romanianshistory0000geor/page/n30 13]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mihăescu |first=H. |year=1993 |title=La Romanité dans le Sud-Est de L'Europe |publisher=Editura Academiei Române |isbn=97-3270-342-3 |language=fr |page=421}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Opreanu |first=Coriolan Horațiu |editor1-last=Pop|editor1-first=Ioan-Aurel |editor2-last=Bolovan |editor2-first=Ioan | title=History of Romania: Compendium |publisher=Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies) |year=2005 |chapter=The North-Danube Regions from the Roman Province of Dacia to the Emergence of the Romanian Language (2nd–8th&nbsp;Centuries&nbsp;AD) |isbn=978-973-7784-12-4 |page=129}}</ref>
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| 588 || || Troesmis was inhabited until 593.<ref>BOGDAN-CĂTĂNICIU 1984, p. 49.</ref><ref name="revistapontica.files.wordpress.com"/><ref>For the campaigns of Byzantine emperor Maurice see CURTA 2006, p. 87 – 88 și 104.</ref> [[Byzantine]] coins were discovered here and dated between 588 and 593 during the reign of Byzantine emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]].<ref>CHIRIAC, BOUNEGRU 1973–1975, p. 102, catalog 7.</ref><ref>OBERLÄNDER-TÂRNOVEANU 1980, p. 274, catalog 177.</ref><ref>Pentru campanile lui Mauriciu vezi CURTA 2006, p. 87 – 88 și 104.</ref> (to 593)
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| 610 || || Roman Emperor [[Heraclius]] grants lands to the sclavenes located in Macedonia eventually the sclavenes later form Sclavinias a term described by Byzantine historians referring to tribal groups.
| 610 || || Roman Emperor [[Heraclius]]
grants lands to the sclavenes located in Macedonia eventually the sclavenes later form Sclavinias a term described by Byzantine historians referring to tribal groups.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 700 || || The [[Ravenna Cosmography]] mentions Troesmis.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="perseus.tufts.edu"/><ref name="quod.lib.umich.edu"/><ref name="TOCILESCU 1883a, p. 101"/><ref name=revistapontica/>
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| || [[Ananias of Shirak]], a 7th-century Armenian geographer described the "large country of [[Dacia]]" as inhabited by Slavs who formed "twenty-five tribes".{{sfn|Spinei|2009|pp=80–81}}{{sfn|Bóna|1994|pp=98–99}}<ref>''The Geography of Ananias of Şirak (L1881.3.9)'', p. 48.</ref>
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| || Some authors state that Troesmis was inhabited until the end of the 7th century based on archeological evidence.<ref>BAUMANN 1980, p. 169 – 172. De la Cetatea de Est mai putem aminti încă o monedă de la acest împărat, emisiune din 568/569, cf. POPESCU, IACOB, GEORGESCU 1996, p. 94, catalog 79.</ref><ref name="revistapontica.files.wordpress.com"/>
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| 805 || || Around 805, the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian]] khan [[Krum]] defeated the [[Avar Khaganate]] to destroy the remainder of the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]], conquered eastern part of the [[Pannonian Basin|Carpathian Basin]] including[[ Transylvania]], spreading from the middle [[Danube]] to the [[Dnieper]]. The [[Battle of Ongal|Ongal]] was the traditional Bulgar name for the area [[Bulgarian lands across the Danube|north of the Danube]] across the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]] covering Transylvania and along the [[Danube]] into eastern part of the Carpathian Basin.{{sfn|Fine|1991|p=94}}<ref name="Krum | Bulgar khan">{{Cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Krum |title = Krum &#124; Bulgar khan}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceC">Ian Mladjov, "Trans‐Danubian Bulgaria: Reality and Fiction", in ''Byzantine Studies/Etudes Byzantines'', n.s. 3, 1998 [2000], 85–128.</ref> This resulted in the establishment of a common border between the [[Franks|Frankish Empire]] and [[Bulgaria]].<ref name="Krum &#124; Bulgar khan"/><ref name="ReferenceC"/><ref>[[s:Essential History of Bulgaria in Seven Pages|Essential History of Bulgaria in Seven Pages]], p. 3, Lyubomir Ivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 2007</ref>
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| 824 || || [[The Fourth Section]] of the [[Royal Frankish Annals]] mentions the [[Abodrites]] who lived in "[[Dacia]] on the Danube as neighbors of the [[Bulgars]]" sent envoys to [[Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor]] [[Louis the Pious]] in 824, complaining "about vicious aggression by the Bulgars"<ref>''Royal Frankish Annals'' (year 824), p. 116.</ref> and seeking the emperor's assistance against them, according to the ''[[Royal Frankish Annals]]''.{{sfn|Curta|2006|p=153}}{{sfn|Sălăgean|2005|p=134}} The Abodrites inhabited the lands along either the [[Timiș River|Timiș]] or the [[Tisza]] rivers.<ref name="Bóna_ST_u_B-R">{{cite web |last=Bóna |first=István |title=From Dacia to Erdőelve: Transylvania in the period of the Great Migrations (271–896); Southern Transylvania under Bulgar rule |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2001 |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/49.html |access-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Curta|2006|p=159}}
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| 890 || || [[Menumorut]], [[Glad (duke)|Glad]], and the Vlach [[Gelou]] are the rulers of [[Crișana]], [[Banat]], and [[Transylvania]] when the Magyars invaded the territoriy, according to the [[Gesta Hungarorum]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Madgearu |first=Alexandru |year=2005 |title=The Romanians in the Anonymous'' Gesta Hungarorum'': Truth and fiction |publisher=Romanian Cultural Institute, Center for Transylvanian Studies |isbn= 973-7784-01-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Macartney |first=C. A. |year= 1953 |title=The Medieval Hungarian Historians: A Critical & Analytical Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/medievalhungaria0000maca |url-access=registration |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-08051-4}}</ref>
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| 900 || || Fine, gray vessels were also unearthed in the 9th-century "Blandiana A"{{sfn|Opreanu|2005|p = 122}} cemeteries in the area of [[Alba Iulia|Alba-Iulia]], which constitutes a "cultural enclave" in Transylvania.{{sfn|Fiedler|2008|p = 159}}{{sfn|Madgearu|2005b|p = 68}} Near these cemeteries, necropolises of graves with west–east orientation form the distinct "Ciumbrud group".{{sfn|Fiedler|2008|p = 161}}{{sfn|Opreanu|2005|p = 122}}{{sfn|Madgearu|2005b|p = 134}} Female dress accessories from "Ciumbrud graves" are strikingly similar to those from Christian cemeteries in [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgaria]] and [[Great Moravia|Moravia]].{{sfn|Fiedler|2008|p = 161}}{{sfn|Madgearu|2005b|p = 134}}
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| 906 || || Menumorut dies and is succeeded by his son-in-law, [[Zoltán of Hungary]], according to the ''Gesta Hungarorum''.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
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| 943 || || An [[Old Church Slavonic in Romania|Old Slavonic]] ([[Old Bulgarian]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Bulgaria/The-first-Bulgarian-empire#ref476452 |title = Bulgaria – the first Bulgarian empire}}</ref>) inscription found among the remains of [[Trajan's Wall#Romania|Trajan's Wall]] in [[Dobruja]] bears the name of [[župan]] Demetrius.<ref>Ovidiu Drimba – Istoria culturii și civilizației românești, Editura Științifică și Pedagogică, București, 1987, vol.2, pg.404</ref>
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| 969 || || The "Western part" of Troesmis is supposed to have been rebuilt and used again during the reign of the [[Eastern Roman Emperor]] [[John I Tzimiskes]] based on archaeological discoveries.<ref>BARNEA, ȘTEFĂNESCU 1971, p. 80.</ref><ref name="revistapontica.files.wordpress.com"/>{{better source needed|date=January 2018}}
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| 976 || || The Greek historian [[John Skylitzes]] mentions the word βλάχοι (Vlachs) in his work [[Synopsis of Histories]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9KwCQAAQBAJ&q=john+skylitzes&pg=PA102|title=The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century|author1=Spinei|first=Victor|year=2009|via=Google Books|publisher=Brill|page=102|format=Print Book on Google Books|access-date=September 21, 2018|quote=The account of the rebellion of the Comitopouloi related in the chronicle of John Skylitzes, written in the late eleventh century, includes one of the earliest attestations of the Vlachs south of the Danube.|isbn=9789047428800}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Skylitzes |first1=John |title=A Synopsis of Byzantine History 811–1057 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGE8Xq832A0C&q=vlachs&pg=PR16 |via=Google Books |access-date=September 21, 2018 |page=312 |format=eBook |date=976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |quote=Of these four brothers David died right away killed between Kastoria and Prespa, at a place called Kalasdrys (beautiful oaks), by some vagabond Vlachs.|isbn=9781139489157 }}</ref>
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1000 || || According to the Arab chronicler [[Al-Muqaddasi|Mutahhar al-Maqdisi]], "They say that in the Turkic neighbourhood there are the Khazars, Russians, Slavs, ''Waladj'', Alans, Greeks and many other peoples."<ref>A. Decei, V. Ciocîltan, "La mention des Roumains (Walah) chez Al-Maqdisi,"in Romano-arabica I, Bucharest, 1974, pp. 49–54</ref>
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| || Another [[župan]] by the name of George is possibly mentioned in an inscription in the [[Murfatlar Cave Complex]], in [[Dobruja]].{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} The Complex is a relict from a widespread [[Monasticism|monastic]] phenomenon in a [[First Bulgarian Empire|10th -century Bulgaria]].<ref>Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250, Florin Curta, Cambridge University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0521815398}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YIAYMNOOe0YC&dq=murfatlar+cave+bulgar&pg=PA232 p. 232.]</ref>
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| || The [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Constantine VII]] mentions Troesmis.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
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| 1166 || || Byzantine historian [[John Kinnamos]] described Leon Vatatzes' military expedition along the northern Danube, where Vatatzes mentioned the participation of Vlachs in battles with the Magyars (Hungarians) in 1166.<ref>A. Decei, op. cit., p. 25.</ref><ref>V. Spinei, The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta From the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century, Brill, 2009, p.132, {{ISBN|9789004175365}}</ref>
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| 1185 || || [[Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria]] and [[Peter II of Bulgaria]], described unanimously by chronicles written in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as [[Vlachs]],<ref>Vásáry 2005, pp. 36–37.</ref> [[Uprising of Asen and Peter|rebelled against byzantine authority]] and restored the [[Second Bulgarian Empire]] as co-rulers, founding the [[Asen dynasty]].{{sfn|Curta|2006|pp=358–359, 379}}
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| 1196 || || [[Kaloyan of Bulgaria]], younger brother of [[Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria]] and [[Peter II of Bulgaria]], became [[Tsar|Emperor]] of [[Second Bulgarian Empire|Bulgaria]]. (to October 1207){{sfn|Madgearu|2016|p=112}}
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| 1197 || || [[Dobromir Chrysos]] was a leader of the [[Vlachs]] and [[Bulgarians]]Bulgaria in eastern [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] during the reign of Byzantine emperor [[Alexios III Angelos]]. According to [[Niketas Choniates]], a 12th-century Greek byzantine government official, Dobromir was Vlach by birth.<ref>Paul Stephenson, Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204, Cambridge University Press, 29 iun. 2000, p.307</ref>
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| 1200 || || [[Benjamin of Tudela]] of the [[Kingdom of Navarre]] was one of the first writers to use the word ''Vlachs'' for a Romance-speaking population.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://users.clas.ufl.edu/fcurta/tudela.html |title = Tudela}}</ref>
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| 1204 || November 8 || A papal legate delivered a royal crown to [[Kaloyan of Bulgaria]] and crowned him "King of the Bulgarians and Vlachs".
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| 1213 || || An army of [[Vlachs]], [[Transylvanian Saxons]], and [[Pechenegs]], led by [[Ioachim of Sibiu]], attacked the [[Bulgarians]]Bulgaria and [[Cumans]] that were from [[Vidin]]{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}.
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| 1222 || || [[Țara Făgărașului]] was mentioned in documents as Terra Blacorum{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}.
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| 1224 || || The [[Diploma Andreanum]] was issued by [[Andrew II of Hungary]] granting provisional autonomy to colonial [[Germans]] residing in the present-day area of [[Sibiu]].
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| 1224 || || [[Țara Făgărașului]] was mentioned in documents as Silva Blacorum{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}.
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| 1241 || || The Persian chronicle [[Jami' al-tawarikh|Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh]] mentions several rulers from [[Wallachia]] such as [[Bezerenbam and Mișelav]] and the country of [[Ilaut]].<ref name="Xenopol, p. 552">Xenopol, p. 552.</ref><ref>C-tin C Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003, p. 281</ref><ref name="Djuvara, cited article">Djuvara, cited article.</ref>{{LopsidedUnbalanced opinion|reason=Several scholars (including the translator of the text) say, they were Poles.|date=April 2017}}
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| 1247 || || The diploma of King [[Béla IV of Hungary]] issued on July 2, 1247, mentions the local rulers [[knyaz]] [[John (knez)|John]], knyaz [[Farcaș]], [[voivode]] [[Litovoi]] and voivode [[Seneslau]].<ref name="Vásáry">{{cite book | last = Vásáry | first = István | title = Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365}}</ref> Seneslau and Litovoi are expressly said to be Vlachs (Olati) in the king's diploma.<ref name="Vásáry"/>
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| 1252 || || [[Țara Făgărașului]] was mentioned in documents as Terra Olacorum{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}.
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| 1277 || || [[Bărbat]] succeeds his brother Litovoi as ruler of [[Oltenia]] after the later was killed during a battle with the Hungarian army. (to 1280)
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| 1288 || || First evidence of [[Diet (assembly)|Diet]] in [[Transylvania]]{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}.
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| 1290 || || According to legend and the 17th century [[Cantacuzino]] Annals, [[Radu Negru]] founded [[Wallachia]].
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| 1310 || || [[Basarab I]]'s rule starts and lasts until 1351/1352.
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| 1330 || || [[Basarab I]] of [[Wallachia]] wins the [[Battle of Posada]] against [[Charles I of Hungary|Charles I Robert]] of [[Hungary]].
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| 1332 || || [[Thocomerius]] is named in a diploma of [[Charles I of Hungary]]<ref name="Vásáry"/> as being the father of [[Basarab I]]. Certain historians such as [[Vlad Georgescu]] and Marcel Popa believe him to have been a ''voievode'' in [[Wallachia]] having succeeded [[Bărbat]] who ruled around 1278.<ref name='Georgescu'>{{cite book |last=Georgescu |first=Vlad |title=The Romanians: A History|year=1991 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |isbn=9780814205112 |url=https://archive.org/details/romanianshistory0000geor |url-access=registration }}</ref><ref name='Treptow'>{{cite book |last1=Treptow |first1=Kurt W. |last2=Popa |first2=Marcel |title=Historical Dictionary of Romania}}</ref>
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| 1340 || || During the reign of [[Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria]] (1331–1371) the control over powerful vassals, such as the rulers of [[Wallachia]] and [[Dobruja]], who pursued their own foreign policies, was hardly stronger.<ref name="fine-p366">Fine, ''Late Medieval Balkans'', p. 366.</ref> The [[Principality of Karvuna]] or [[Despotate of Dobruja]] ({{lang-bg|Добруджанско деспотство or Карвунско деспотство}}; {{lang-ro|Despotatul Dobrogei or Țara Cărvunei}}) split off from the [[Second Bulgarian Empire]] in the region of modern [[Dobruja]] and Northeast [[Bulgaria]]<ref>{{cite book | title = Istorija i civilizacija za 11. klas | last = Delev | first = Petǎr |author2=Valeri Kacunov |author3=Plamen Mitev |author4=Evgenija Kalinova |author5=Iskra Baeva |author6=Bojan Dobrev | chapter = 19. Bǎlgarija pri Car Ivan Aleksandǎr | year = 2006 | language = bg | publisher = Trud, Sirma }}</ref>
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|1345
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|King [[Louis I of Hungary]] dispatched [[Andrew Lackfi]], [[Count of the Székelys]] to invade the lands of the [[Golden Horde]] in retaliation for the [[Tatars|Tatars's]] earlier plundering raids against [[Transylvania]]. [[Andrew Lackfi|Lackfi]] and his army of mainly [[Székelys|Székely]] warriors inflicted a defeat on a large [[Tatars|Tatar]] army on 2 February 1345.{{sfn|Kristó|1988|pp=96–97}}{{sfn|Bertényi|1989|p=58}} The campaign had finally expelled the Tatars and ended the devastations of the Mongols in [[Transylvania]].<ref name=":34">{{Cite book |last=Makkai |first=László |title=History of Transylvania Volume I. From the Beginnings to 1606 – III. Transylvania in the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom (896–1526) – 3. From the Mongol Invasion to the Battle of Mohács |publisher=Columbia University Press, (The Hungarian original by Institute of History Of The Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |year=2001 |isbn=0-88033-479-7 |language=English |chapter=The Three Feudal 'Nations' and the Ottoman Threat |chapter-url=http://mek.niif.hu/03400/03407/html/82.html}}</ref> The Golden Horde was pushed back behind the [[Dniester|Dniester River]], thereafter the Golden Horde's control of the lands between the [[Eastern Carpathians]] and the [[Black Sea]] weakened.{{sfn|Kristó|1988|pp=96–97}}{{sfn|Sălăgean|2005|p=199}}
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|In the year of 1442, [[John Hunyadi]] won four victories against the Ottomans, two of which were decisive.{{sfn|Jefferson|2012|p=278}} In March 1442, Hunyadi defeated Mezid Bey and the raiding Ottoman army at the [[Battle of Hermannstadt|Battle of Szeben]] in the south part of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] in [[Transylvania]].{{sfn|Jefferson|2012|p=278–286}} In September 1442, Hunyadi defeated a large Ottoman army of [[Beylerbey]] [[Hadım Şehabeddin|Şehabeddin]], the Provincial Governor of [[Rumelia]]. This was the first time that a European army defeated such a large Ottoman force, composed not only of raiders, but of the provincial cavalry led by their own [[Sanjak-bey|sanjak beys]] (governors) and accompanied by the formidable [[Janissary|janissaries]].{{sfn|Jefferson|2012|p=286–292}}
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| 1465 || October 14 || [[Radu cel Frumos]] issues a [[writ]] from his residence in [[Bucharest]].
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| 1476 || || The Polish chronicler [[Jan Długosz]] remarked in 1476 that [[Moldavia]]nsMoldavians and [[Wallachia]]nsWallachians "share a language and customs".<ref>''The Annals of Jan Długosz'' {{ISBN|19-0101-900-4}}, p. 593</ref>
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|The [[Battle of Breadfield]] was the most tremendous conflict fought in [[Transylvania]] up to that time in the [[Ottoman–Hungarian Wars]], taking place in 1479 during the reign of King [[Matthias Corvinus]]. The [[Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)|Hungarian]] army defeated a highly outnumbered [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army and the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] casualties were extremely high. The battle was the most significant victory for the Hungarians against the Ottomans, and as a result, the Ottomans did not attack southern Hungary and Transylvania for many years thereafter.
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|King [[John Zápolya|John I of Hungary]] died in 1540, the Habsburg forces besieged [[Buda]] the Hungarian capital in 1541, Sultan [[Suleiman the Magnificent|Suleiman]] led a relief force and defeated the Habsburgs, the Ottomans captured the city by a trick during the [[Siege of Buda (1541)|Siege of Buda]] and the south central and central areas of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] came under the authority of the Ottoman Empire, therefore Hungary was divided into three parts.
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| 1542 || || The Transylvanian Szekler [[Johann Lebel]] wrote that "the Vlachs name each other Romuini".<ref>''"Ex Vlachi Valachi, Romanenses Italiani,/Quorum reliquae Romanensi lingua utuntur.../Solo Romanos nomine, sine re, repraesentantes./Ideirco vulgariter Romuini sunt appelanti"'', Ioannes Lebelius, De opido Thalmus, Carmen Istoricum, Cibinii, 1779, p. 11 – 12</ref>
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| 1554 || || The Polish chronicler [[Stanislaw Orzechowski]] mentions that "in their language, the vlachs name themselves romini".<ref>''"qui eorum lingua Romini ab Romanis, nostra Walachi, ab Italis appellantur"'' St. Orichovius, Annales polonici ab excessu Sigismundi, in I. Dlugossus, Historiae polonicae libri XII, col 1555</ref>
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| 1563 || || An [[Acts of the Apostles]] book is printed by the printer [[Coresi]] from [[Brașov]] in [[Romanian language|Romanian]], though written with the Cyrillic alphabet at the time.
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|1568
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|The [[Eastern Hungarian Kingdom]] is consideredwas the predecessor state of the [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]]. The [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]] was established after the signing the [[Treaty of Speyer (1570)|Treaty of Speyer]] in 1570 by king [[John Sigismund Zápolya|John II]] and emperor [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximiliam II]], thus [[John Sigismund Zápolya]], the Eastern Hungarian king became the first [[List of princes of Transylvania|prince of Transylvania]]. According to the treaty, the Principality of Transylvania nominally remained part of the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)|Kingdom of Hungary]] in the sense of public law.<ref>Anthony Endrey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ewYiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22belonged+to%22 The Holy Crown of Hungary], Hungarian Institute, 1978, p. 70</ref> The Treaty of Speyer stressed in a highly significant way that John Sigismund's possessions belonged to the [[Holy Crown of Hungary]] and he was not permitted to alienate them.<ref>Anthony Endrey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ewYiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA70 ''The Holy Crown of Hungary''], Hungarian Institute, 1978, p. 70</ref>
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| || The Croatian [[Ante Verančić]] specifies that "the vlachs from Transylvania, Moldova and Transalpina name themselves Romans".<ref>''"...Valacchi, qui se Romanos nominant..." "Gens quae ear terras (Transsylvaniam, Moldaviam et Transalpinam) nostra aetate incolit, Valacchi sunt, eaque a Romania ducit originem, tametsi nomine longe alieno..."'' De situ Transsylvaniae, Moldaviae et Transaplinae, in Monumenta Hungariae Historica, Scriptores; II, Pesta, 1857, p. 120</ref>
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| 1574 || || [[Pierre Lescalopier]] writes that "those that live in Moldova, Wallachia and most of Transylvania consider themselves as being descendants of Romans and name their language romanian".<ref>''"Tout ce pays: la Wallachie, la Moldavie et la plus part de la Transylvanie, a esté peuplé des colonies romaines du temps de Trajan l'empereur… Ceux du pays se disent vrais successeurs des Romains et nomment leur parler romanechte, c'est-à-dire romain … "'' în Voyage fait par moy, Pierre Lescalopier l'an 1574 de Venise a Constantinople, în: Paul Cernovodeanu, ''Studii și materiale de istorie medievală'', IV, 1960, p. 444</ref>
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| 1575 || || [[Ferrante Capecci]], after travelling through [[Wallachia]], [[Transylvania]] and [[Moldova]], mentions that the dwellers of these lands are named "romanesci".<ref>''"Anzi essi si chiamano romanesci, e vogliono molti che erano mandati quì quei che erano dannati a cavar metalli..."'' în: Maria Holban, ''Călători străini despre Țările Române'', București, Editura Stiințifică, 1970, vol. II, p.158 – 161</ref>
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| 1580 || || The [[Orăștie Palia]] is the oldest translation of the [[Pentateuch]] written in the [[Romanian language]].<ref>Palia de la Orăștie (1581–1582), Bucharest, 1968</ref>
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| 1600 || 27 May || [[Wallachia]]nWallachian prince [[Michael the Brave]] briefly imposes his rule over [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]] and [[Moldavia]] which had a Romanian population.
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| valign="top" | 1601 || || The assassination of [[Michael the Brave]] ends the personal union between Transylvania, Moldova and Wallachia that had been established one year prior.
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| 1605 || || [[Stephen Bocskay]] becomes Prince of Transylvania guaranteeing religious freedom and broadening Transylvania's independence.
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| 1606 || || The [[Treaty of Vienna (1606)|Treaty of Vienna]] gives [[constitutional]] and religious rights and privileges to all [[Hungarian language|Hungarian-speaking]] Transylvanians but none to [[Romanian language|Romanian-speaking]] people. The treaty guarantees the right of Transylvanians to elect their own independent princes in the future.
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| 1613 || || [[Gabriel Bethlen]] becomes Prince of Transylvania succeeding to [[Gabriel Báthory]]. Under Bethlen's rule, the principality experiences a golden age. He promoted agriculture, trade, and industry, sank new mines, sent students abroad to Protestant universities, and prohibited landlords from denying an education to children of serfs.{{editorializing|date=January 2018}}
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| 1648 || || [[Peace of Westphalia]] ends the [[Thirty Years' War]]. Transylvania is mentioned as a [[sovereign state]].
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| 1653 || || The second war between [[Matei Basarab]] and [[Vasile Lupu]] ends with the [[Moldavia]]nMoldavian throne being given to [[Gheorghe Ștefan]].
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| 1655 || || [[Seimeni]] revolt begins.
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| 1657 || || [[George II Rákóczi]] invades Poland only to be defeated. The [[Ottoman Empire]] take advantage of the new situation and restore the military power in Transylvania.
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| 1661 || || In April [[John Kemény (Prince)|Prince Kemény]] proclaims the secession of Transylvania from the [[Ottoman Turks|Ottomans]] and appeals to help from the [[Habsburg monarchy]]. He was not aware of the secret agreement between the [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] and the move will end his [[reign]]. Transylvania becomes a [[vassal state]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]].
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| 1682 || || The capital of Transylvania is moved to [[Sibiu]] (then Nagyszeben);
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| 1683 || || The defeat of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman armies]] in [[Battle of Vienna]] means the end of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule over Transylvania. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] becomes official church in Transylvania in a move directed by the Habsburgs to weak the [[noblemen]] estates, which were both [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Protestant]].
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| 1692 || || The [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]] control over Transylvania is consolidated even more and the princes are replaced with [[governors]] named directly by the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg Emperors]], who themselves become Princes of Transylvania.
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| 1698 || || [[Bucharest]] becomes capital of [[Wallachia]]. Until then the capital was in [[Târgoviște]]. [[Constantin Brâncoveanu]]'s 16-year reign commences during which period [[Wallachia]] enjoys a golden age.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1699 || || The [[Emperor Leopold I]] decrees Transylvania's [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] to be one with the [[Roman Catholic Church]], by joining the newly created [[Romanian Greek-Catholic Church]].
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| || [[Martinus Szent-Ivany]] mentions that the Vlachs use the following phrases "Si noi sentem Rumeni" meaning "we are Romanians too" and "Noi sentem di sange Romena", meaning "We are of Roman blood".<ref>''"Valachos...dicunt enim communi modo loquendi: Sie noi sentem Rumeni: etiam nos sumus Romani. Item: Noi sentem di sange Rumena: Nos sumus de sanguine Romano"'' Martinus Szent-Ivany, Dissertatio Paralimpomenica rerum memorabilium Hungariae, Tyrnaviae, 1699, p. 39</ref>
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| 1711 || || Transylvania's direct-autonomy to [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]] ends, as the region comes under the [[administrative area]] of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
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| 1714 || || [[Constantin Brâncoveanu]] and his sons are executed in [[Istanbul]] at the order of [[Sultan]] [[Ahmed III]] because they did not renounce their Christian faith. The sultan also did not agree with [[Constantin Brâncoveanu|Brâncoveanu]]'s alliance with the [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg]] and [[Russian Empire|Russian]] empire.
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| 1715 || || The [[Phanariote]] period starts. [[Nicholas Mavrocordatos]] becomes the first [[Phanariote]] prince of Wallachia. The influence of [[Ottoman Empire]] is greater than ever.
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| 1716 || || The [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]] invades Wallachia during the [[Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18|Austro-Turkish War]].
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| 1718 || || [[Oltenia]] becomes part of the [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]].
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| 1739 || || [[Oltenia]] is reconquered by the Ottomans.
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| 1746 || || [[Constantine Mavrocordatos]] enacts measures effectively abolishing [[serfdom]] in Wallachia and creates a more effective central administrative apparatus.
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| 1749 || || [[Serfdom]] is abolished in Moldavia.
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| 1765 || || The Grand Principality of Transylvania is proclaimed, consisting of a special separate status within the [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]] originally granted in 1691. This was however just a mere formality, as Transylvania is still an [[administrative area]] of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}
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| 1768 || || Wallachia is occupied by [[Russian Empire|Russia]] during the [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)|Fifth Russo-Turkish War]].
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| 1784 || || The [[Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan]] starts in November and lasts until February in 1785. The main demands were related to the existence feudal serfdom and the lack of political equality between Orthodox Romanians and other Catholic ethnicities of Transylvania.
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| 1801 || || [[Russian Empire|Russia]] assumes a protective right over Romanian-speaking Christians in the Danubian lands and soon began to increase its influence in the region.
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| 1802 || || [[Sámuel Teleki (chancellor)|Sámuel Teleki]], then Chancellor of Transylvania, inaugurates the first library in Transylvania and present-day [[Romania]]. On December 15, [[János Bolyai]] is born in [[Cluj Napoca]]. Today the town's main university is named after him and [[Victor Babeș]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1806 || || Following the collapse of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[Hasburg Empire|Habsburg Empire]] is reorganised and becomes the [[Austrian Empire]].
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| || Wallachia is occupied by [[Russian Empire|Russia]].
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| 1813 || || [[Caragea's plague]] claims 60,000 deaths in Wallachia during 1813 and 1814.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1821 || || Following the death of [[Alexandros Soutzos]] a [[boyar]] [[regent|regency]] is established.
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| || The anti-[[boyar]] and anti-[[Phanariote]] [[uprising]] takes place being led by [[Tudor Vladimirescu]]. On 28 May, a [[Treaty of Bucharest (1812)|treaty]] is signed between [[Russian Empire]] and [[Ottoman Empire|the Ottoman Empire]] ending the [[Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)|war]] with [[Bessarabia]] becoming part of the [[Russian Empire]].
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| || The [[Phanariote]] rule ends. Moldavia is occupied by [[Alexander Ypsilantis]]'s [[Filiki Eteria]] during the [[Greek War of Independence]].
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| 1822 || || [[Ionică Tăutu]], representing a group of low-ranking [[boyars]] in [[Moldavia]], proposes a [[constitutional]] project with [[republicanism|republican]] and liberal principles;
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| 1826 || || Local leaders in Moldavia are allowed to govern by the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Russian Empire]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1829 || || Following the [[Treaty of Adrianople (1829)|Treaty of Adrianople]], without overturning Ottoman suzerainty, places [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]] under [[Russian empire]] military rule until Turkey pays an indemnity. Wallachia gains the rayas of [[Turnu]], [[Giurgiu]] and [[Brăila]], Russia annexes the Danube estuary.
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| || The seventh [[Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)|Russo-Turkish War]] brings [[Pavel Kiselyov]] at the leadership of Moldavia;
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1834 || || [[Regulamentul Organic]], a quasi-constitutional organic law is enforced in [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]]. Sfatul Boieresc, the first Legislative Assembly in [[Wallachia]] is established.
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| || [[Regulamentul Organic]], a quasi-constitutional organic law is enforced in [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]]. Sfatul Boieresc, the first Legislative Assembly in [[Wallachia]] is established [[Mihail Sturdza]], a man with unionist ideas, becomes Prince of Moldavia.
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| 1844 || || The [[slavery|enslavement]] of [[Romani people]] ends.
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| 1847 || || A custom union{{clarify|date=January 2018}} with Wallachia is established.
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| rowspan="4" valign="top" | 1848 || || The [[Revolutions of 1848|Revolution]] are very active in this part of Europe. The [[Hungarians]] demand more rights, including a provision on the union between Transylvania and [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]]. The [[Romanian-language|Romanian-speaking]] Transylvanians carry their own parallel revolution led by [[Avram Iancu]], which opposed the union with [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
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|During the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]], the Hungarian government proclaimed union with Transylvania in the [[April Laws]] of 1848 which was latter affirmed by the Transylvaniat Diet and the King.<ref>Laszlo Péter, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nzW8aApInY8C&dq=medieval+unitary+hungary&pg=PA56 Hungary's Long Nineteenth Century: Constitutional and Democratic Traditions in a European Perspective], BRILL, 2012, p. 56</ref>
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| || The [[Revolutions of 1848]] spreads in [[Wallachia]] where the Romanian-speaking [[Wallachia]]nsWallachians try to overrule the [[Russian Empire]]'s administration, demand the abolition of [[boyar]] privilege and a [[land reform]]. The revolutionaries are successful enough to create a provisional government in June and forced [[Gheorghe Bibescu]], the Prince of Wallachia, to abdicate and leave into exile. A series of reforms follow the protests, the abolition of [[Romani people|Roma]] slavery being one of them.
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| || The [[Revolutions of 1848]] reach [[Moldavia]] but are less successful than in [[Wallachia]], as the revolts are quickly suppressed.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1849 || || The revolt led by [[Avram Iancu]] obtains some rights for the [[Romanian language|Romanian-speaking]] Transylvanians, in spite of strong opposition from [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
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| || [[Grigore Alexandru Ghica]] becomes prince of [[Moldavia]]. He introduces important administrative reforms and promotes economic development and education.
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| 1850 || || [[Mihai Eminescu]], regarded today as the most famous and influential Romanian poet, is born.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1854 || || The first railway line through Romania's present-day territory opens on August 20 and between [[Oravița]] in [[Banat]] and [[Baziaș]].
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| || The [[Russian Empire]] protectorate ends. It is followed by an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] occupation for several months and then a two-year-long [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] occupation;
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1856 || || Wallachia and Moldavia are brought under the influence of the Western European powers under the provisions of the [[Treaty of Paris (1856)|Treaty of Paris]].
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| || The end of the [[Crimean War]] heralds the end of [[Russian Empire|Russia]] dominance in Moldavia.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1859 || || [[National Party (Romania)|The National Party]] is founded. Its leader, [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza]] will play a major role in the formation of [[Romania]] just three years later.
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| || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza]] is elected Prince of [[Moldavia]] on January 5. Three weeks later he is also elected Prince of [[Wallachia]], thus achieving a de facto union of the two principalities under the name of [[Romania]].
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| 1860 || || [[University of Iași]] is established, as the first institution of higher education in [[Romanian language]] with [[Faculty (university)|faculties]] of literature, philosophy, law, science and medicine and schools in music and art. The [[Romanian Army]] is founded. Romania switches from [[Cyrillic script]] to the [[Latin script]] that is still in use today.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1861 || || On February 5, the 1859 union is formally declared and a new country, [[Romania]] is founded. The capital city is chosen to be [[Bucharest]]. On December 23, [[Abdülaziz]], the [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] officially recognizes the union but only for the duration of [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza|Cuza]]'s reign.
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| || The [[Asociația Transilvană pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român|Transylvanian Association for the Literature and Culture of the Romanians]] is founded in [[Sibiu]], as the first cultural association of the Romanian-speaking Transylvanians.
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| 1862 || || The [[Government of Romania]] is formed with [[Alexandru Constantin Moruzi]] as the first ever [[Prime Minister of Romania|Prime Minister]].
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| 1863 || || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza]] promulgates the [[Land reform in Romania|Agrarian Reform]] in which the majority of the land is transferred into the property of those who worked it. As there was not enough land, the [[Secularization of monastery estates in Romania]], in which large estates owned by the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]] are transferred under state ownership and then to private property, takes place. This was an important turning point in the history of Romania, as it marked the almost disappearance of the [[Boyar]] class, leaving the country to look towards capitalism and industrialization.
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| 1864 || || The [[Parliament of Romania]] is formed. A tuition-free, compulsory public education for primary schools is introduced in [[Romania]] for the first time. Also a Criminal Code and a Civil Code, both based on the [[Napoleonic Code]], are introduced.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1865 || || On January 1, [[CEC Bank|Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni]], the first bank of Romania, is established. On June 19 [[Evangelis Zappas]], one of the richest men in the world at that date dies at the age of 65. Born in the [[Ottoman Empire]] in today's Greece he lived in Romania most of his life.
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| || After the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]], the separate status<ref>John F. Cadzow, Andrew Ludanyi, Louis J. Elteto, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fX5pAAAAMAAJ&q=diploma+leopoldinum+transylvania ''Transylvania: The Roots of Ethnic Conflict''], Kent State University Press, 1983, page 79</ref> of Transylvania ceased, it was incorporated again into the Kingdom of Hungary ([[Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen|Transleithania]]) as part of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]].<ref>James Minahan: [https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&q=1867+compromise ''One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups''], Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 06991</ref>
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| 1869 || || The [[Bucharest]] – [[Giurgiu]] railway works are concluded after four years and the line become the first of this kind{{clarify|date=January 2018}} in Romania. However, it is not the first railway built on the present territory of Romania. The first railway was built in 1854 in [[Banat]].
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| 1870 || || The short-lived [[Republic of Ploiești|Republica Ploiești]] is formed in the city of [[Ploiești]] as part of a revolt against the Prince.
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| 1877 || || On April 16, Romania and the [[Russian Empire]] sign a treaty under which Russian troops are allowed to pass through Romanian territory, with the condition to respect the integrity of Romania. On 21 May, the [[Parliament of Romania]] declare the independence of the country. In the fall Romania join the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War]] on the [[Russian Empire]] side. In November, deeply defeated in the [[Siege of Plevna|Battle of Plevna]], the [[Ottoman Empire]] request an armistice.
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| 1878 || || Romania independence is recognised by the [[Central Powers]] on July 13. Following the [[Treaty of Berlin (1878)|Treaty of Berlin]], Romania now include territories of [[Northern Dobruja]], the [[Danube Delta]], and [[Snake Island (Black Sea)|Insula Șerpilor]]. In return the southern counties of [[Bassarabia]] are returned to [[Russian Empire]].
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| 1880 || || [[National Bank of Romania]] is established in April. The bank's first governor was Eugeniu Carada. [[Căile Ferate Române]], Romania's state-owned railway company starts its operations.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 1881 || March 26 || [[Carol I of Romania|Carol I]] is crowned as [[King of Romania|King]]. His wife [[Elisabeth of Wied|Elisabeth]] becomes [[Queen of Romania|Queen]]. Romania becomes kingdom.
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| 12 May || The [[Romanian National Party|National Party of Romanians in Transylvania]] is formed as the first party of the Romanians in Transylvania.
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| August 19 || [[George Enescu]] is born.
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| 1882 || || The [[Bucharest Stock Exchange|Stock Exchange]] opens in [[Bucharest]].
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| 1884 || || The first ever telephone in Romania is installed.
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| 1885 || || [[Patriarch Joachim IV of Constantinople|Patriarch Joachim IV]] signs the recognition of the [[Autocephaly|autocephalous]] status of the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]] that granted it equal rights with those of the other orthodox churches.
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| 1886 || || The construction of the [[Romanian Athenaeum|Athenaeum]] begins. Although the work would continue until 1897, the first concert took place in 1886 and it was performed by [[George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra|Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra]].
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| 1889 || || [[Mihai Eminescu]] dies aged 39.
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| 1892 || || The [[Transylvanian Memorandum]] is signed by the leaders of the Romanians to the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]], asking for equal ethnic rights with the [[Hungarians]], and demanding an end to persecutions and [[Magyarization]] attempts. The [[memorandum]] was forwarded to the [[Parliament of Hungary|Hungarian Parliament]] and the results was that the Romanian leaders are sentenced to long terms in prison.
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| 1894 || || Leaders of the [[Transylvania]]nTransylvanian Romanians who sent a Memorandum to the [[Austrian Emperor]] demanding national rights for the Romanians are found guilty of treason.
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| 1895 || || [[King Carol I Bridge]] is inaugurated on September 26. At the time it was the longest in Europe and second longest in the world.
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| 1907 || || Violent [[1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt|peasant revolts]] crushed throughout Romania, thousands of persons killed.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1913 || || At the end of the [[Balkan Wars]], Romania acquires the [[Southern Dobruja|southern part]] of the [[Dobruja]] from Bulgaria.
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| April 1 || The [[Parliament of Romania|Parliament]] votes to enact the law of the military aviation{{clarify|date=January 2018}}, Romania being the fifth nation in the world to have an air force.
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| valign="top" | 1914 || October 10 || [[Carol I of Romania|Carol I]] dies and is succeeded by his nephew, [[Ferdinand I of Romania|Ferdinand]], who becomes the second [[King of Romania]] as [[Ferdinand I of Romania|Ferdinand I]]. His wife, [[Marie of Romania|Maria]] becomes [[Queen of Romania|queen]].
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| 1916 || || Despite choosing to stay away from the [[World War I]], the death of [[Carol I of Romania|King Carol I]] and the course of events made Romania to change its view and decide to switch sides in favor of the [[Allies of World War I|Entente]], demanding the territory of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] of until the [[Tisza|Tisza River]]. The demands of the [[Romanian Government]] were accepted and following the [[Treaty of Bucharest (1916)|First Treaty of Bucharest]]. Romania declare war to the [[Central Powers]] on 27 August and launches attacks against Kingdom of Hungary through the [[Southern Carpathians]] and into [[Transylvania]]. Poorly trained and equipped, the [[Romanian Army]] cannot face the power of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Bulgarian and Ottoman armies and [[Bucharest]] was occupied on 6 December 1916 by the Central Powers. [[Iași]] becomes temporarily the capital city of Romania.
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| rowspan="2" | 1917 || August 6 || The [[Battle of Mărășești]], the retreat of the [[Imperial Russian Army|Russian Army]] from Romania left the Romanians no choice but to ask for peace. (to September 8)
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|The Hungarian army was disarmed on 2 November, and [[Austria-Hungary]] signed the armistice on 3 November 1918. One day before the German armistice, Romania re-entered the war on 10 November with similar objectives to those of 1916. On 12 November, the Romanian army crossed the Hungarian border and entered in Transylvania. On 28 November the Romanian representatives of [[Bucovina]] voted for union with the [[Kingdom of Romania]], followed by the proclamation of the [[Union of Transylvania with Romania|union of Transylvania]] with the Kingdom of Romania on 1 December, by the representatives of [[Transylvania]]nTransylvanian Romanians and of the [[Transylvanian Saxons]] gathered at [[Alba Iulia]]. The declaration included 26 counties of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], the territory until the [[Tisza|Tisza River]], [[Banat]], and [[Máramaros County|Máramaros county]]. Both proclamations were not, however, yet recognized by the Entente powers.
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| 1919 || || On 1 May, the entire east bank of the [[Tisza|Tisza River]] was under the control of the Romanian Army. On 17 July, [[Béla Kun]], the leader of the [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]], decides to counterattack the Romanian Army at the Tisza river to regain the occupied territories of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] without any success. The collapse of the [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] by the Romanian offensive led to the occupation of [[Budapest]], the Hungarian capital in August. Afterwards, by the [[Treaty of Versailles]] and later by the [[Treaty of Trianon]] and the Kingdom of Romania expands its borders, referred as [[Greater Romania]] during the interwar period.
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| 1920 || January 20 || Romania becomes a founding member of [[League of Nations]]. The [[CFRNA]] (French-Romanian Company for Air Navigation) is established, becoming the first airline in Romania.
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| 1921 || April 23 || Romania and [[Czechoslovakia]] sign a [[peace treaty]] in [[Bucharest]]. It will be followed by a similar treaty between Romania and [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] signed it [[Belgrade]] one month later. A new [[Land reform in Romania|land reform]] takes place, suggested by [[Ferdinand I of Romania|King Ferdinand I]], who wanted to repay the soldiers and their families for sacrifices made during [[World War I|the war]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}.
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| 1922 || || [[Ferdinand I of Romania|King Ferdinand I]] and [[Queen Maria of Romania|Queen Maria]] are crowned in [[Alba Iulia]] as King and [[Queen consort|Queen]] of all Romanians.
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| 1925 || || The [[Romanian Orthodox Church]] is officially recognized{{clarify|date=January 2018}}.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1927 || July 20 || [[Ferdinand I of Romania|King Ferdinand I]] dies and [[Michael I of Romania|Mihai I]], his grandson, becomes the third [[King of Romania]] after his father [[Carol II of Romania|Carol]] renounced to his rights to the throne in two years earlier.
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| July 24 || On July 24, the [[Iron Guard]] is formed by [[Corneliu Zelea Codreanu]]. The [[Iron Guard]] will play a major role in the Romanian political and social system over the next decade and a half.
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| 1929 || || The worldwide [[Great Depression]] [[Great Depression in Romania|affects Romania]] as well.
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| 1930 || June || [[Carol II of Romania|Carol II]] returns to Romania on June 7 and is proclaimed King one day later, thus becoming the fourth [[King of Romania]] and the first born in Romania. The [[Romtelecom|Societatea Anonimă Română de Telefoane]] is established and Romania starts to use [[Telephone|landline telephone]] on a wide scale.
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| 1933 || December || On December 10, [[Ion Duca]], Prime Minister of Romania at the time, bans the [[Iron Guard]]. On December 29, [[Ion Duca]] is assassinated by members of the paramilitary organization.
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| 1937 || || A new [[palace]] is built to replace the old residence of the heads of states of Romania, which has been in use for over a century. Today the [[National Museum of Art of Romania]] is located in the palace.
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| 1938 || || In a bid for political unity against the fascist movement known as the [[Iron Guard]], which was gaining popularity, [[Carol II of Romania|Carol II]] dismissed the [[Romanian Government|government]] headed by [[Octavian Goga]]. The activity of the [[Romanian Parliament]] and of all political parties was suspended and the country is governed by [[royal decree]]. [[Miron Cristea]], the first [[Patriarch of All Romania|Patriarch]] of the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]] become [[Prime Minister of Romania|Prime Minister]] on February 11.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1939 || || [[Nazi Germany]] and the Soviet Union sign the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]], in which the Soviet side claims [[Bessarabia]]. The territory, together with the northern part of [[Bukovina]], is [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina|occupied by the Soviet Union]] one year later.
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| September 21 || [[Armand Călinescu]], [[Prime Minister of Romania]], is assassinated by the [[Iron Guard]].
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| 1940 || || On June 27, following an [[ultimatum]] issued by the Soviet Union, Romania loses [[Bessarabia]] and [[Bukovina|Northern Bukovina]]. On August 30, under the [[Second Vienna Award]], Romania loses the northern part of [[Transylvania]] to Hungary. Only one week later the [[Southern Dobruja|Kadrilater]]/[[Southern Dobruja]] is lost to [[Bulgaria]]. On September 4, [[Horia Sima]], leader of the [[Iron Guard]], and [[Ion Antonescu]], a [[Romanian Land Forces|Romanian Army]] General, [[Prime Minister of Romania]] at that date, form the "National Legionary State" in Romania, forcing the abdication of [[Carol II of Romania|King Carol II]]. [[Michael I of Romania|Michael I]] becomes king for the second time two days later. On October 8, [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] troops begin crossing into Romania. On November 23, Romania joins the [[Axis Powers]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1941 || January 21 || A rebellion organized by the [[Iron Guard]] takes place in Bucharest. Later known as the [[Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom]], it was a reaction to the decision made by [[Ion Antonescu]] to cut off the privileges of the [[Iron Guard]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}} During the rebellion, 125 [[Jews]] and 30 army soldiers were killed. After order is restored, the [[Iron Guard]] is banned. (to January 23)
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| June 22 || Romania joins [[Operation Barbarossa]], attacking the Soviet Union hoping to recover the lost territories of [[Bessarabia]] and [[Bukovina]]. Later, Romania annexes Soviet lands immediately east of the [[Dnister]].
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| 1942–1943 || || Romania becomes a target of [[Bombing of Romania in World War II|Allied aerial bombardment]]. The old refineries in [[Ploiești]] are bombed on August 1, 1943, during [[Operation Tidal Wave]].
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| 1944 || || On August 23, [[Michael I of Romania|King Michael I]] leads a successful [[1944 Romanian coup d'état|coup]] with support from opposition politicians and the army. [[Ion Antonescu]] is arrested. On September 12, an Armistice Agreement is signed with the [[Allies of World War II|Allied powers]]. Romania join the [[Allies of World War II|Allied powers]]. In October [[Winston Churchill]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], proposed a [[percentages agreement]] with Soviet dictator [[Joseph Stalin]] on how to split up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence after the war; the Soviet Union was offered a 90% share of influence in Romania. [[Battle of Romania]] begins.
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| 1945 || || On March 1, [[Petru Groza]] becomes the first [[Communist]] [[Prime Minister of Romania]] after [[Nicolae Rădescu]] was forced to submit his resignation by the Soviet Union's deputy [[People's Commissar]] for Foreign Affairs, [[Andrei Y. Vishinsky]]. Later on that year Romania takes part in the [[Siege of Budapest|Battle on Budapest]] as well as the [[Prague Offensive|Battle on Prague]]. Despite joining only the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] only in August 1944, Romania had an important contribution to shortening WWII by six months, according to [[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]]{{verify source|date=January 2018}}.
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| 1946 || || The [[Romanian Communist Party]] wins the [[1946 Romanian general election|elections]] amid unrest and allegations of [[electoral fraud]] by opposition groups and the government of the United Kingdom.
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| 1947 || || Following the abdication of [[King Michael I of Romania|Mihai I]], the [[Communist Romania|People's Republic of Romania]] is declared on December 30 against the majority of people who supported the monarchy. The new leader of Romania becomes [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]], General Secretary of the [[Romanian Communist Party]];
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| 1948 || || A new constitution is ratified on April 13. Two months later, on June 11 all banks and major enterprises are [[nationalization|nationalized]]. During the year, also in the years to come, many pre-war politicians, businessmen, priests and even ordinary people are thrown in prisons. On August 30, following the model of Soviet [[NKVD]], the [[Securitate|Romanian secret police]] is formed;
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| 1949 || || A forced [[Collectivization in Romania|collectivization]], in which the agriculture is organized under the socialist model, comes into force. Romania join [[Comecon]]. The construction of [[Danube-Black Sea Canal]] starts. The canal was the most known [[labour camp]] in the history of Romania;
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| 1952 || || The [[Hungarian Autonomous Province]], the one and only autonomous province in modern Romania, is created. It will be disestablished in 1968. The second Communist constitution is ratified;
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| 1953 || || The [[Danube-Black Sea Canal]] is halted and the labour camp disestablishedied [[Iuliu Maniu]] dies in [[Sighet]] prison;
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| 1954 || || [[SovRoms]], joint ventures between Romania and Soviet Union are formed. They will prove their inefficiency for Romania from the first day of establishment and most of them will be dissolved in 1956;
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| 1956 || || On October 28 a radio station calling itself "Romania of the future. The voice of resistance" begins broadcasting on different wavelengths. Many protests, especially amongst students, follows in November. On December 31, [[Romanian Television|Televiziunea Română]] start to broadcast first programmes;
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| 1957 || || [[ARO]] is established in [[Câmpulung-Muscel]] and start to manufacture off-road vehicles. [[ARO IMS]] become the first car built in Romania after World War II. Over the next three decades [[ARO]] will be a landmark of Romania.
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| 1958 || || The [[Red Army|Soviet Union Army]] leave Romania after fourteen years of occupation;
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| 1959 || || On July 28, the [[Ioanid Gang]] carries out the most famous bank robbery ever to occur in a Communist state;
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| 1960 || || Oliviu Beldeanu, the leader of the group that occupied the Romanian embassy in [[Bern]] five years earlier, is executed in [[Bucharest]];
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| 1965 || || On March 19, [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]] dies and [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] is elected General Secretary of the [[Romanian Communist Party]] and becomes the state leader. The official name of the country is changed into The Socialist Republic of Romania. The third Communist constitution is ratified;
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| 1966 || || [[Automobile Dacia|Intreprinderea de Autoturisme Pitești]] is established. Two years later Romania start the [[mass production]], the first mass production of a car – [[Dacia 1100]]. [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] orders that the abortion decree signed in 1957 to be reversed and new policies to increase birth rate and fertility rate are introduced. The policy fails, as the population begins to swell, accompanied by rising poverty and increased homelessness children in the urban areas;
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| 1968 || || Romania refuse to participate in the [[invasion of Czechoslovakia]]. [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] openly condemns the action, thus he becomes a Western world favourite. [[Richard Nixon]]'s visit to Romania was the first by an American president to a Communist country. The [[Patriotic Guards (Romania)|Patriotic Guards]] are formed as an additional defence force in case of an attack from the outside;
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| 1972 || || In order to develop a "multilaterally socialist society", [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] starts [[urban planning]], following the ideologies of [[North Korea]]. The face of the country is completely changed in the years to come;
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| 1974 || || [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] becomes the first [[President of Romania]]. Romania become the first country in the [[Eastern Bloc]] ever to establish economic relations with the [[European Community]]. The Generalised System of Preferences is signed, followed by an Agreement on Industrial Products in 1980.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1976 || || At the age of 14, [[Nadia Comăneci]] becomes one of the stars of the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal. During the team portion of the competition, her routine on the uneven bars is scored at a 10.0. It is the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. Over the next years, [[Nadia Comăneci|Nadia]] will become one of the best known Romanians in the world;
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| || The [[Danube-Black Sea Canal]] project restarts;
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| 1977 || || On 4 March 21:20 local time, an earthquake occurs with a magnitude of 7.4 and epicentre in [[Vrancea County|Vrancea]] at a depth of 94 kilometres. The earthquake killed about 1,570 people and injured more than 11,000. Total damages are estimated at more than two billion dollars. On 1 July 35,000 out of 90,000 [[miner]]sminers in [[Jiu Valley]] decide to stop working. Their protest is the biggest of this kind in [[Communist Romania]] before the [[Romanian Revolution|1989 revolution]]. The strike only ends when [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] intervened in person.
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| 1978 || || [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]], a senior officer in [[Securitate]], defected to the United States becoming the highest ranking defector from the [[Eastern Bloc]];
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| 1980 || || Construction of the [[Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant]] begins. The fourth Communist constitution is ratified;
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| 1981 || || The [[1981 Summer Universiade]] becomes the most important sport event ever to be hosted by Romania. [[Dumitru Prunariu]] becomes the first Romanian in [[space]];
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| 1983 || || As part of the [[Systematization (Romania)|urban planning]] programme, significant portions of the historic centre of [[Bucharest]] are demolished in order to accommodate standardized apartment blocks and government buildings, including the grandiose [[Centrul Civic]] and the palatial [[Palace of the Parliament|House of the People]], the second largest government building in the world;
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| 1984 || || Romania is, alongside People's Republic of China and [[Yugoslavia]], one of the three Communist countries to take part to the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles, USA. The [[Danube-Black Sea Canal]] is finally completed after nearly four decades;
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| 1986 || || On 7 May, [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]] win the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] and become the first <!-- is not the only one from a Communist country, Red Star Belgrade from Yugoslavia won the trophy in 1991 -->[[association football|football]] team from a Communist country to win the trophy;
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| 1987 || || In a climate of economic depression and food shortages a [[Brașov Rebellion|rebellion]] erupts on November 15 in the city of [[Brașov]]. Over 300 protesters are arrested for [[hooliganism]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1989 || || On December 16, protests break out in [[Timișoara]]. Five days later [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] organises a mass meeting in [[Bucharest]]. The jeers and whistles soon erupt into a riot, as the crowd takes to the streets, placing the capital in turmoil. [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] and his wife leave [[Bucharest]] putting an end to four decades of Communist rule in Romania. On December 25, after a short trial, [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] and his wife are executed.
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| || The [[National Salvation Front (Romania)|National Salvation Front]] (FSN) take the power during the [[Romanian Revolution]]. The leader is elected [[Ion Iliescu]]. The new name of the republic becomes [[Romania]];
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| 1990 || || On 20 May, free elections are held in Romania for the first time after fifty years. [[National Salvation Front (Romania)|FSN]], which became a political party, win the elections. [[Ion Iliescu]] is elected the second [[President of Romania]]. Before and after the elections, a protest initiated by the students and professors of [[University of Bucharest]], which was also supported by many intellectuals, demanded that former members of the [[Romanian Communist Party]], which included [[Ion Iliescu]], should be banned from elections. The protest was ended by the intervention of the miners from [[Jiu Valley]], brought to [[Bucharest]] by [[Ion Iliescu|Iliescu]] himself in what is remembered as the [[June 1990 Mineriad]];
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| 1991 || || A new constitution is ratified;
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| 1992 || || Elections are held and [[Ion Iliescu]] wins a second mandate. [[Privatization]] of the industry starts;
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| 1993 || || Romania apply to become a member of the [[European Union]]. The first [[wireless telephony]] system becomes active;
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| 1995 || || The [[Bucharest Stock Exchange|Stock Exchange]] reopens in [[Bucharest]];
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| 1996 || || [[Emil Constantinescu]] becomes the third [[President of Romania]];
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| 1997 || || Romania join the countries able to use [[GSM]] telephony;
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| 2000 || || [[Ion Iliescu]] returns to power after winning the elections;
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| [[2004 in Romania|2004]] || || Romania joins the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]]. [[Traian Băsescu]] becomes the fourth [[President of Romania]].
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| [[2007 in Romania|2007]] || || On January 1, Romania joinjoins the [[European Union]], [[2007 enlargement of the European Union|together]] with [[Bulgaria]]. [[Traian Băsescu]] was temporarily suspended for alleged constitutional violations and replaced with [[Nicolae Văcăroiu]].
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| [[2008 in Romania|2008]] || || In February [[Government of Romania|the Government]] overrule court decision that commission investigating Communist-era secret police is illegal. For two days, starting on April 2, Romania host [[2008 Bucharest summit|2008 NATO summit]]. Legislative election are held on November 30. [[Emil Boc]] becomes the new Prime Minister following the elections.
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| [[2009 in Romania|2009]] || || Badly affected by the [[Late-2000s recession]], the [[International Monetary Fund]] and other lenders agree to provide Romania a rescue package worth 20bn [[Euro]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=IMF Survey: Romania Receives Support from IMF to Counter Crisis |url=https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/soint050409a |website=International Monetary Fund |access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref> A [[Government of Romania|Government]] crisis begins in April when [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|the Social Democratic Party]] pulls out of ruling coalition, leaving Prime Minister [[Emil Boc]] atthe head of minority government, which subsequently loses a confidence vote in parliament. On December 6, [[Traian Băsescu]] is re-elected as president for a second mandate after marginally winning the [[2009 Romanian presidential election|presidential election]] in front of [[Mircea Geoană]].
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| [[2013 in Romania|2013]] || || [[2012–14 unrest in Romania|Large protests]] against Prime Minister [[Victor Ponta]]. (to 2014)
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| [[2014 in Romania|2014]] || December 21 || [[Klaus Iohannis]] becomes the fifth [[President of Romania]], who is also the first [[Germans of Romania|ethnic German]] President of Romania.
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