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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 2 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 | |
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