1891 in Romania
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Events from the year 1891 in Romania. The year saw political instability and the fall of two governments, led by Gheorghe Manu and Ioan Emanoil Florescu, respectively.
Incumbents
- King: Carol I.[1]
- Prime Minister:
- Gheorghe Manu (until 15 February).[2]
- Ioan Emanoil Florescu (from 2 March until 29 December).[2]
- Lascăr Catargiu (from 29 December).[2]
Events
- 3 January – The first edition of Unirea, the newspaper of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, is published.[3]
- 20 April – Romania issues its first commemorative stamps, to celebrate 25 years of the king's reign.[4]
- 13 June – The first official train arrives at Bartolomeu railway station, the station having been inaugurated on 6 June.[5]
- 15 November – Lascăr Catargiu visits Titu Maiorescu in his home for the first time in over a decade of mutual antipathy.[6]
- 18 November – Catargiu, Iacob Lahovary and Constantin Olănescu resign from the cabinet, leaving Florescu without parliamentary backing.[7]
- 9 December – The National Liberal Party and "Sincere Liberal" parliamentarians pass a motion of no confidence in the government.[8]
Popular culture
Poetry
- Pui de lei ("Lion Cubs") is written and published by Ioan S. Nenițescu as part of a compliation titled Pui de lei. Poesii eroice și naționale ("Lion cubs. Heroic and national poems").[9]
Births
- 31 March – Ion Pillat, poet (died 1945).[10]
- 4 April – Dumitru Cornilescu, translator of the Bible into Romanian (died 1975).[11]
- 27 June – Andrei Magieru, theologian (died 1960).[12]
- 2 August – Mihail Jora, composer (died 1971).[13]
- 22 October – Dumitru S. Panaitescu, literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer known as Perpessicius (died 1971).[14]
- 3 December – Oscar Han, sculptor and writer (died 1976).[15]
Deaths
- 16 May – Ion C. Brătianu, Prime Minister between 1876 and 1888 (born 1821).[16]
- 19 August – Theodor Aman, painter, engraver and art professor (born 1831).[17]
- 30 August – Emanoil Bacaloglu, mathematician, physicist and chemist (born 1830).[18]
References
- ^ Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN 978-9-73943-235-1.
- ^ a b c Nicolescu, Nicolae C. (2003). Șefii de stat și de guvern ai României 1859–2003: mică enciclopedie [Heads of State and Government of Romania 1859–2003: A Small Encyclopedia] (in Romanian). Bucarest: Editura Meronia. p. 211. ISBN 978-9-73820-049-4.
- ^ Hangiu, I. (1996). Dicționarul presei literare românești: 1790–1990 [Dictionary of the Romanian Literary Press: 1790–1990] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Fundației Culturale Române. p. 495. ISBN 978-9-73577-050-1. OCLC 247734850.
- ^ Thorp, Prescott Holden (1934). The Commemorative Stamps of the World. New York: Scott Stamp and Coin Company. p. 381. OCLC 1918146.
- ^ Bellu, Radu (1995). Mică monografie a căilor ferate din România [Small monograph of the railways in Romania] (in Romanian). Vol. I. București: Filaret. p. 82.
- ^ Ornea, Z. (1998). Junimea și junimismul. Vol. I. Bucharest: Editura Minerva. p. 326. ISBN 978-9-73210-562-7.
- ^ Bacalbașa, Constantin (1928). Bucureștii de altădată. Vol. II: 1885 — 1901 [The Bucharest of yesteryear] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Universul Editura Ziarului. p. 139.
- ^ Bacalbașa, 1928, p. 140
- ^ Ene, Virgiliu (1979). Unirea Principatelor române oglindită în literatură [The Union of the Romanian Principalities Reflected în Literature] (in Romanian). Iași: Junimea. p. 292.
- ^ Pillat, Ion (1980). Eternități de-o clipă. Éternités d’un instant, chronologie de Dinu Pillat [Eternities of a moment. Éternités d’un instant, chronology by Dinu Pillat] (in Romanian). Translated by Dobrescu-Warodin, Andreea. Bucarest: Minerva. p. 3. OCLC 433075416.
- ^ Savelovici, Anton (2013). "Dumitru Cornilescu and the Context of his Bible Translation". Scientific Journal of Humanistic Studies. 5 (8): 264. ISSN 2066-8880.
- ^ Păcurariu, Mircea (1996). Dictionarul teologilor români [Dictionary of Romanian Theologians] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic. p. 240. ISBN 978-9-73973-914-6.
- ^ Rusu, Dorina N.; Simion, Eugen (1999). Membrii Academiei Române, 1866-1999 [Members of the Romanian Academy, 1866—1999] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române. p. 277. ISBN 978-9-73276-967-6.
- ^ Ene, Ileana (2001). "Preface and Chronological study to Perpessicius". Studii eminescien [Eminescu studies] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. p. 14. ISBN 978-9-73803-134-0.
- ^ "O personalitate pe zi: Sculptorul Oscar Han" [A personality a day: Sculptor Oscar Han]. Agerpres (in Romanian). 3 December 2021.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bratianu, Ion C.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11 ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 436.
- ^ Firuta, Corina (2009). Theodor Aman. Bucharest: Monitorul Oficial. p. 33. ISBN 978-9-73967-524-6.
- ^ Rucăreanu, Costin-Liviu; Mihăileanu, Călin; Popovic, Vasile (2003). Personalități din energetica românească [Personalities from the Romanian energy sector] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Asociaţia „Institutul Naţional Român pentru Studiul Amenajării şi Folosirii Surselor de Energie". p. 15. ISBN 978-9-73002-962-8.