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The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919. However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for the months . In modern Romania and Moldova , the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well.
The Romanian Army is founded. Romania switches from Cyrillic script to the Latin script that is still in use today. 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.
Romanian Aviation and Air Force Day 24 July Romanian Border Police Day 28 July National Ambulance Day and World Hepatitis Day: 29 July National Anthem Day Date when Deșteaptă-te, române! was first performed, in 1848 at Râmnicu Vâlcea – not a public holiday 30 July Friendship Day: 15 August Romanian Navy Day 23 August
Present country Historic area Year Date of the last day before the change Date of the first day after the change Days omitted Particulars Source Albania: Albania 1912 14 Nov 28 Nov 13 Albanian Catholics have used the Gregorian calendar since 5 Oct 1583. [3] [4] Armenia: Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic: 1918 17 Apr 1 May 13 [5 ...
The Romanian expression România Mare (Great or Greater Romania) refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period and to the territory Romania covered at the time. At that time, Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, almost 300,000 km 2 or 120,000 sq mi [ 266 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.
21 February – Claudia Millian, poet (died 1961). [3]18 March – Ion Negulescu, lieutenant general during World War II, Minister of War in 1944–1945, (died 1949). [4]1 April – Aurel Aldea, lieutenant general during World War II, Interior Minister, and anti-communist resistance leader, died in Aiud Prison (died 1949).
In recent years, Romania has ranked the lowest or second-lowest in the European Union by research and development spending as a percentage of GDP, standing at roughly 0.5% in 2016 and 2017, substantially below the EU average of just over 2%. [306] [307] The country joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2011, [308] and CERN in 2016. [309]
14 January – Constantin Sănătescu, 44th prime minister of Romania (died 1947). [4] [5] 30 January – Iuliu Hossu, bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, beatified as a martyr (died 1970). [6] 10 February – Alice Voinescu, writer and essayist, first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy (died 1961). [7]