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The indigenous population of
Romania were the Slavic tribes:
- 'West Slavs' tribes were the Poles, the Czechs and
the Slovaks
- 'East Slavs' tribes consisted of Russians,
Ukrainians and Belarusian's
- 'South Slavs' tribes consisted of Bulgarians,
Romanian, Croats, Macedonians Serbs and Slovenians
The ancient Kingdom of Romania
was called Dacia
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650 BC |
Information about the Dacians
is first documented by the Greeks |
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15 BC |
The Romans had begun to extend
their empire to include Dacia which was re-named as
Romania
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0 |
The birth of Jesus Christ |
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33 AD |
Crucifixion of Jesus in the
Roman province of Jerusalem and the origin of
Christianity |
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50 AD |
50-100AD - The spread of
Christianity |
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103 AD |
103-105AD The Roman provinces
of Moesia Superior and Dacia were connected by a
bridge over the Danube for Emperor Trajan
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395 |
395 to 1453 - The Byzantine
Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the eastern
section of the Roman Empire, with its capital at
Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire was called the
Roman Empire or, in later centuries, Romania
Romania was made up of a number of small states,
including Transylvania, Wallachia & Moldavia, each
with an independent ruler
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1428 |
Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler),
the son of Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Dragon), is born |
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1463 |
Vlad Dracula the Impaler becomes Prince of
Wallachia |
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1443 |
Vlad the Impaler is taken
hostage by the Turks |
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1451 |
Vlad the Impaler flees to
Transylvania |
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1476 |
Vlad the Impaler is
assassinated. In 1897 "Dracula" by Bram Stoker is
published in England |
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1703 |
1703-1711 War, led by the
Prince of Transylvania, against the Habsburgs failed |
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1859 |
The modern Romania was born
when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
merged |
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1895 |
October 1: Romanians in
Constantinople were massacred |
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1914 |
Outbreak of WWI Romania fights
on Allied side |
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1916 |
August 28: Germany declared
war on Romania |
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1916 |
September 1: Bulgaria declared
war on Romania |
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1938 |
King Carol II establishes
dictatorship 1938 -
1940 Germany raise treaties in Munich and Vienna in
which Southern Slovakia and Northern Transylvania
were returned to Hungary
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1939 |
September: World War II starts |
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1940 |
Soviet Union delivered an
ultimatum to Romania and 2 days later occupied
Bessarabia and North Bukovina
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1941 |
Romania fights on German side
against Soviet Union |
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1945 |
August The United States
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Allies of World War II
defeat Germany
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1947 |
Romania regains Transylvania.
King Michael abdicates. Romanian People's Republic
proclaimed
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1955 |
Romania joins Warsaw Pact |
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1965 |
Nicolae Ceausescu becomes
Romanian Communist Party leader |
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1989 |
The reign of Romanian
president Nicolae Ceausescu was ended with an
uprising |
