Romania
Some of the key events about Romania
- 1241Mongol invasion devastated large parts of the country
- 1526Ottoman Empire conquered and occupied much of Romania
- 1784Peasant revolt in Transylvania was violently suppressed
- 1859The first union of the Romanian Principalities occurred, forming the basis of modern Romania
- 1877Romania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire following the Russo-Turkish War
- 1918The Great Union of Romania was achieved, uniting Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom
- 1940Romania ceded territory to the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria under foreign pressure
- 1941Pogrom in Iași resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews
- 1944Soviet occupation of Romania began
- 1947Communist regime was forcibly installed, abolishing the monarchy
- 1952Severe economic crisis and famine struck the country
- 1955Romania joined the United Nations, gaining international recognition
- 1968Romania refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, asserting its independence from Soviet control
- 1977Powerful earthquake in Bucharest killed over 1,500 people
- 1989The Romanian Revolution led to the fall of the communist regime and the transition to democracy
- 1989Violent revolution overthrew the communist regime, resulting in over 1,000 deaths
- 2004Romania joined NATO, enhancing its security and international alliances
- 2007Romania became a member of the European Union, integrating into the European community
- 2009The Roșia Montană mining landscape was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
- 2019The city of Timișoara was designated as the European Capital of Culture for 2023
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