1933 in Romania

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See also:	Other events of 1933; History of Romania; Timeline of Romanian history; Years in Romania;

Events from the year 1933 in Romania. The year saw the Grivița strikes, the formation of the Little Entente, and the assassination of the Prime Minister Ion G. Duca.

Incumbents[edit]

King: Carol II.^[1]
Prime Minister: ^[2]
- Iuliu Maniu (until 13 January)
- Alexandru Vaida-Voevod (14 January to 13 November)
- Ion G. Duca (from 14 November to 29 December)
- Constantin Angelescu (interim, from 30 December).

Events[edit]

17 January – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod introduces the third sacrificial curve, reducing wages by 10 to 12.5 percent, which leads to widespread demonstrations.^[3]
28 January – The first in a series of Grivița Workshops strikes leads to confrontations between workers and government soldiers.^[4]
15–16 February – The army breaks up the Grivița Workshops strikes and arrests the Communist leadership, which includes future Romanian President Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.^[5]^[6]
16 February – Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia sign the Pact of Organisation forming the Little Entente. The organisation is ratified on 30 May at the same time as a Permanent Council of the States is created.^[7]
11 June – Romania wins the Balkan Cup for the third time, with Gheorghe Ciolac and scoring the most goals in the tournament.^[8]
15 September – Ștefan Tătărescu, leader of the National Socialist Party and brother of future Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu, visits Adolf Hitler in Germany, supported by Romanian Minister Foreign Affairs, Nicolae Titulescu, as part of a wider objective to undermine the Little Entente.^[9]
10 December – The government of Prime Minister Ion G. Duca dissolves the Iron Guard.^[10]^[11]
29 December – Returning from Peleș Castle after meeting the king, Duca is assassinated by an Iron Guard death squad at Sinaia railway station.^[12]
30 December – The National Liberal Party wins the general election.^[13]

Births[edit]

31 March – Nichita Stănescu, poet and essayist (died 1983).^[14]
15 May – Andrei Blaier, film director and screenwriter (died 2011).^[15]
14 June – Dumitru Pârvulescu, Greco-Roman wrestler who won a gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics and bronze in 1964 (died 2007).^[16]
30 July – Ciprian Foiaș, mathematician (died 2020).
21 August – Cadrie Nurmambet, Romanian-born Crimean Tatar folk singer and folklorist.^[17]
20 October – Emilia Vătășoiu, artistic gymnast that won bronze medals at both the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.^[18]
20 October – Ion Dichiseanu, actor (died 2021).^[19]
9 November – Lucian Pintilie, film, opera and theatre director of the Romanian New Wave (died 2018).^[20]
26 November – Ella Zeller, table tennis player, winner of six gold medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.^[21]

Deaths[edit]

25 April – Mina Minovici, forensic scientist (born 1858).^[22]
22 May – Ștefan Dimitrescu, Post-impressionist painter (born 1886).^[23]
29 December – Ion G. Duca, Prime Minister (born 1879).^[12]
Unknown – Calypso Botez, suffragist and women's rights activist (born 1880).^[24]

References[edit]

^ Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN 978-9-73943-235-1.
^ Spuler, Bertold (1977). Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975. London: Bowker. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-85935-056-3.
^ Bejan, Cristina (2019). Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 139. ISBN 978-3-03020-165-4.
^ Giurescu, Dinu C.; Nestorescu, Ioana (1981). Illustrated History of the Romanian People. Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism. p. 514. OCLC 263619033.
^ Granville, Johanna (2008). "Dej-a-Vu: Early Roots of Romania's Independence". East European Quarterly. 42 (4): 381.
^ Neagoe-Pleșa, Elis (2014). "Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej și „procesul ceferiștilor" (1933–1934)". In Cioroianu, Adrian (ed.). Comuniștii înainte de comunism: procese și condamnări ale ilegaliștilor din România [Communists before communism: trials and convictions of the illegalists in Romania] (PDF) (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Universității București. ISBN 978-6-06160-520-0.
^ Wiktor, Christian L. (1998). Multilateral treaty calendar = Répertoire des traités multilatéraux, 1648-1995. Cambridge: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 978-9-04110-584-4.
^ LaBlanc, Michael L.; Henshaw, Richard (1994). The World Encyclopedia of Soccer. Detroit: Gale Research. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-81038-995-3.
^ Hîncu, Dumitru (2005). "O modă a anilor '30: pelerin la Berlin" [1930s Fashion: Pilgrimage to Berlin]. România Literară (in Romanian) (27).
^ Clark, Roland (2016). Holy Legionary: Youth Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-80145-634-3.
^ Rubin, Barry M.; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Armonk: Taylor and Francis. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-31747-465-4.
^ ^a ^b Ornea, Z. (1995). Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească [The Thirties: Romanian Far Right] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Fundației Culturale Române. p. 298. ISBN 978-9-73915-543-4.
^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöve, Philip (2010). Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Baden-Baden: Nomos. p. 1591. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
^ Man, Vasile (2019). "Nichita Stănescu, Viviana Milivoievici. Asemănări și diferențe poetice" [Nichita Stănescu, Viviana Milivoievici. Poetic Similarities and Differences]. Studii de Ştiinţă şi Cultură (in Romanian). 15 (3): 26.
^ Cupă, Valeria (December 1, 2011). "Tragedie în cinematografie: Andrei Blaier a murit. Vezi ce spun cineaștii despre marele regizor". România liberă (in Romanian). Retrieved October 2, 2022.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dumitru Pîrvulescu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015.
^ Kurt, Necdet (2020). "Anadolu Coğrafyası Dışındaki Hey Onbeşli Çeşitlemeleri" [Variations of "Hey Fifteen" Outside the Anatolian Geography]. Etnomüzikoloji Dergisi (in Turkmen). 3 (1): 90.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.
^ Chihaia, Daniela, ed. (20 May 2021). "Actorul Ion Dichiseanu a murit" [Actor Ion Dichiseanu has died] (in Romanian). Digi24. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
^ Bergan, Ronald (30 May 2018). "Lucian Pintilie obituary: Influential theatre and film director known as the godfather of the Romanian new wave". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 June 2018.
^ Budeanca, Cosmin; Báthory, Dalia (2018). Histories (un)spoken: Strategies of Survival and Social-professional Integration in Political Prisoners' Families in Communist Central and Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s. Zurich: LIT Verlag. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-64390-983-1.
^ "Mina Minovici, founder of Romanian forensic medicine". Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-12-05.
^ Institutul de Istoria Artei (Academia Română) (1974). Pagini de artă modernă românească. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii socialiste România. OCLC 583168758.
^ Mușat, Mircea (1988). România după Marea Unire: partea 2. Noiembrie 1933-Septembrie 1940 [Romania after the Great Union: part 2. November 1933 September 1940] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică. p. 128. OCLC 245626470.

[1] Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN 978-9-73943-235-1.

[2] Spuler, Bertold (1977). Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975. London: Bowker. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-85935-056-3.

[3] Bejan, Cristina (2019). Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 139. ISBN 978-3-03020-165-4.

[4] Giurescu, Dinu C.; Nestorescu, Ioana (1981). Illustrated History of the Romanian People. Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism. p. 514. OCLC 263619033.

[5] Granville, Johanna (2008). "Dej-a-Vu: Early Roots of Romania's Independence". East European Quarterly. 42 (4): 381.

[6] Neagoe-Pleșa, Elis (2014). "Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej și „procesul ceferiștilor" (1933–1934)". In Cioroianu, Adrian (ed.). Comuniștii înainte de comunism: procese și condamnări ale ilegaliștilor din România [Communists before communism: trials and convictions of the illegalists in Romania] (PDF) (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Universității București. ISBN 978-6-06160-520-0.

[7] Wiktor, Christian L. (1998). Multilateral treaty calendar = Répertoire des traités multilatéraux, 1648-1995. Cambridge: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 978-9-04110-584-4.

[8] LaBlanc, Michael L.; Henshaw, Richard (1994). The World Encyclopedia of Soccer. Detroit: Gale Research. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-81038-995-3.

[9] Hîncu, Dumitru (2005). "O modă a anilor '30: pelerin la Berlin" [1930s Fashion: Pilgrimage to Berlin]. România Literară (in Romanian) (27).

[10] Clark, Roland (2016). Holy Legionary: Youth Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-80145-634-3.

[11] Rubin, Barry M.; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Armonk: Taylor and Francis. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-31747-465-4.

[Ornea-12] Ornea, Z. (1995). Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească [The Thirties: Romanian Far Right] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Fundației Culturale Române. p. 298. ISBN 978-9-73915-543-4.

[13] Nohlen, Dieter; Stöve, Philip (2010). Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Baden-Baden: Nomos. p. 1591. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.

[14] Man, Vasile (2019). "Nichita Stănescu, Viviana Milivoievici. Asemănări și diferențe poetice" [Nichita Stănescu, Viviana Milivoievici. Poetic Similarities and Differences]. Studii de Ştiinţă şi Cultură (in Romanian). 15 (3): 26.

[Cupa-15] Cupă, Valeria (December 1, 2011). "Tragedie în cinematografie: Andrei Blaier a murit. Vezi ce spun cineaștii despre marele regizor". România liberă (in Romanian). Retrieved October 2, 2022.

[16] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dumitru Pîrvulescu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015.

[17] Kurt, Necdet (2020). "Anadolu Coğrafyası Dışındaki Hey Onbeşli Çeşitlemeleri" [Variations of "Hey Fifteen" Outside the Anatolian Geography]. Etnomüzikoloji Dergisi (in Turkmen). 3 (1): 90.

[18] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.

[19] Chihaia, Daniela, ed. (20 May 2021). "Actorul Ion Dichiseanu a murit" [Actor Ion Dichiseanu has died] (in Romanian). Digi24. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

[20] Bergan, Ronald (30 May 2018). "Lucian Pintilie obituary: Influential theatre and film director known as the godfather of the Romanian new wave". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 June 2018.

[21] Budeanca, Cosmin; Báthory, Dalia (2018). Histories (un)spoken: Strategies of Survival and Social-professional Integration in Political Prisoners' Families in Communist Central and Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s. Zurich: LIT Verlag. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-64390-983-1.

[22] "Mina Minovici, founder of Romanian forensic medicine". Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-12-05.

[23] Institutul de Istoria Artei (Academia Română) (1974). Pagini de artă modernă românească. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii socialiste România. OCLC 583168758.

[24] Mușat, Mircea (1988). România după Marea Unire: partea 2. Noiembrie 1933-Septembrie 1940 [Romania after the Great Union: part 2. November 1933 September 1940] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică. p. 128. OCLC 245626470.

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