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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
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 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.
In 1930, there were 745,421 Germans living in Romania, [323] but only about 36,000 remained in the country to this day. [322] As of 2009 [update] , there were also approximately 133,000 immigrants living in Romania, primarily from Moldova and China.
The Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Romanian: Ziua Unirii Principatelor Române) or, unofficially, the Little Union Day (Romanian: Ziua Micii Uniri), [1] is a public holiday of Romania celebrated every 24 January to commemorate the unification of the Romanian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), also known as the "Little Union", on 24 January 1859 under prince ...
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Events from the year 1889 in Romania. During the year, the country passed a law to enter the gold standard. Incumbents. King: Carol I. [1] Prime Minister: