1891 in Romania

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See also:	Other events of 1891; History of Romania; Timeline of Romanian history; Years in Romania;

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]
2 November – Foundation of the Central University Library, Bucharest, as the Fundația Universitară Carol I (Carol I University Foundation).^[6]
15 November – Lascăr Catargiu visits Titu Maiorescu in his home for the first time in over a decade of mutual antipathy.^[7]
18 November – Catargiu, Iacob Lahovary and Constantin Olănescu resign from the cabinet, leaving Florescu without parliamentary backing.^[8]
9 December – The National Liberal Party and "Sincere Liberal" parliamentarians pass a motion of no confidence in the government.^[9]

Popular culture

Poetry

Pui de lei ("Lion Cubs") is written and published by Ioan S. Nenițescu as part of a compilation entitled Pui de lei. Poesii eroice și naționale ("Lion cubs. Heroic and national poems").^[10]

Births

31 March – Ion Pillat, poet (died 1945).^[11]
4 April – Dumitru Cornilescu, translator of the Bible into Romanian (died 1975).^[12]
27 June – Andrei Magieru, theologian (died 1960).^[13]
2 August – Mihail Jora, composer (died 1971).^[14]
14 October – Gabriela Chaborski, chemist (died 1936}.^[15]
22 October – Dumitru S. Panaitescu, literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer known as Perpessicius (died 1971).^[16]
3 December – Oscar Han, sculptor and writer (died 1976).^[17]

Deaths

16 May – Ion C. Brătianu, Prime Minister between 1876 and 1888 (born 1821).^[18]
19 August – Theodor Aman, painter, engraver and art professor (born 1831).^[19]
30 August – Emanoil Bacaloglu, mathematician, physicist and chemist (born 1830).^[20]

References

↑ Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN 978-9-73943-235-1.
1 2 3 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.
↑ Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C.; Popa, Marcel; Alexandrescu, Ion; Chiper, Ioan (1974). Chronological History of Romania. Bucharest: Enciclopedică Română. p. 223. OCLC 251025169.
↑ 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.
↑ Ștefan, I. M.; Firoiu, V. (1975). Sub Semnul Minervei: Femei de seamă din trecutul românesc [Under the Sign of Minerva: prominent women from the Romanian past] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Politică. p. 229. OCLC 6890267.
↑ 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.

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

[Nicolescu-2] 1 2 3 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Thorp, Prescott Holden (1934). The Commemorative Stamps of the World. New York: Scott Stamp and Coin Company. p. 381. OCLC 1918146.

[5] 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.

[Constantin-6] Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C.; Popa, Marcel; Alexandrescu, Ion; Chiper, Ioan (1974). Chronological History of Romania. Bucharest: Enciclopedică Română. p. 223. OCLC 251025169.

[7] Ornea, Z. (1998). Junimea și junimismul. Vol. I. Bucharest: Editura Minerva. p. 326. ISBN 978-9-73210-562-7.

[8] Bacalbașa, Constantin (1928). Bucureștii de altădată. Vol. II: 1885 — 1901 [The Bucharest of yesteryear] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Universul Editura Ziarului. p. 139.

[9] Bacalbașa, 1928, p. 140

[10] Ene, Virgiliu (1979). Unirea Principatelor române oglindită în literatură [The Union of the Romanian Principalities Reflected în Literature] (in Romanian). Iași: Junimea. p. 292.

[11] 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.

[12] Savelovici, Anton (2013). "Dumitru Cornilescu and the Context of his Bible Translation". Scientific Journal of Humanistic Studies. 5 (8): 264. ISSN 2066-8880.

[13] Păcurariu, Mircea (1996). Dictionarul teologilor români [Dictionary of Romanian Theologians] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic. p. 240. ISBN 978-9-73973-914-6.

[14] 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.

[15] Ștefan, I. M.; Firoiu, V. (1975). Sub Semnul Minervei: Femei de seamă din trecutul românesc [Under the Sign of Minerva: prominent women from the Romanian past] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Politică. p. 229. OCLC 6890267.

[16] 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.

[17] "O personalitate pe zi: Sculptorul Oscar Han" [A personality a day: Sculptor Oscar Han]. Agerpres (in Romanian). 3 December 2021.

[18] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bratianu, Ion C.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11 ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 436.

[19] Firuta, Corina (2009). Theodor Aman. Bucharest: Monitorul Oficial. p. 33. ISBN 978-9-73967-524-6.

[20] 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.

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