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1926 In Romania
Events from the year 1926 in Romania. The year saw improved relationships between Romania and Poland and Marie of Romania, Queen Maria's visit to the United States, while at home the Romanian dynastic crisis, dynastic crisis continued. Incumbents * King of Romania, King: Ferdinand I of Romania, Ferdinand * Prime Minister of Romania, Prime Minister: **Ion I. C. Brătianu (until 26 March). **Alexandru Averescu (from 26 March). Events * 5 January – The Romanian dynastic crisis continues as an Act of Parliament confirms that Carol II of Romania, Prince Carol renounces his right to succeed King Ferdinand. * 26 March – In Bucharest, Romania and Poland sign a ''Treaty on Mutual Assistance against Aggression and on Military Aid'', building the Polish–Romanian alliance. * 10 October – The Romanian National Party (, PNR) and the Peasants' Party (Romania), Peasants' Party (, PȚ) merge to form the National Peasants' Party. The party subsequently dominated Romanian politics from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Of Romania
Marie (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was the last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I. Marie was born into the British royal family. Her parents were Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Marie's early years were spent in Kent, Malta and Coburg. After refusing a proposal from her cousin, the future King George V, she was chosen as the future wife of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania, the heir apparent of King Carol I, in 1892. Marie was Crown Princess between 1893 and 1914, and became immediately popular with the Romanian people. After the outbreak of World War I, Marie urged Ferdinand to ally himself with the Triple Entente and declare war on Germany, which he eventually did in 1916. During the early stages of fighting, Bucharest was occupied by the Central Powers and Marie, Ferdinand and their five children took refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Romania
Events from the year 2018 in Romania. Incumbents ;President File:Klaus Iohannis at EPP Summit, March 2015, Brussels (cropped).jpg, Klaus Iohannis (since 2014) ;Prime Minister File:Mihai Tudose 2018.jpg, Mihai Tudose (until 15 January) File:Mihai-Viorel Fifor.jpg, Mihai Fifor (acting, 15–29 January) ;President of the Senate File:Victor Ponta la semnarea declaratiei politice privind infiintarea USL 2.0 - 14.11 (4) (15621866127) (cropped 2).jpg, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (since 2014) ;President of the Chamber of Deputies File:Conferinta de presa la sediul PSD Arad - 22.05 (7) (14465750525).jpg, Liviu Dragnea (since 2016) Events January * 15 January – Prime Minister Mihai Tudose resigns after his Social Democratic Party leaders withdraw their support following a party feud. * 20 January – Tens of thousands of people protest in Romanian cities and abroad against amendments to the laws of justice and criminal codes. * 29 January – The Romanian parliament appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In Romania
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States space exploration programs, United States or the Soviet space program, Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is Brazilian presidential election, 1985, elected president of Brazil by the National Congress of Brazil, Congress, ending the Military dictatorship in Brazil, 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan, privately sworn in for a second term as Presidency of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. * January 27 – The Eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Ursu
Gheorghe Emil Ursu (known to friends as Babu; July 1, 1926 – November 17, 1985) was a Romanian construction engineer, poet, diarist and dissident. A left-wing activist and avant-garde intellectual who joined the Romanian Communist Party as a youth, he was soon after disillusioned with the Communist regime, and became one of its critics. For most of his life, Gheorghe Ursu was active in cultural circles, and maintained contacts with literary and artistic figures. Ursu anonymously denounced the policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and was kept under surveillance by the country's secret police—the Securitate. A journal in which he recorded his thoughts and opinions was the subject of a denunciation, which eventually led to his arrest. He was beaten to death by cell mates soon after, while in the custody of the Miliția. Ursu's death was a matter of international scandal and, after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the subject of an inquiry initially headed by prosecutor . Much controve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Germany
The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany. Incumbents *President: Joachim Gauck *Chancellor: Angela Merkel Events January * 1 January - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German ''Minimum Wage Law'') comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage. * 11 January - An arson attack on the newspaper ''Hamburger Morgenpost'', which published ''Charlie Hebdo'' cartoons, leads to two arrests. * 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant. February * 5–15 February - 65th Berlin International Film Festival * 15 February: Hamburg state election, 2015 in Hamburg March * March - German company Dr Oetker buys German company Coppenrath & Wiese * 5 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 * 24 March - The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads to widespread media coverage and public attention in Germany. 72 Germans die aboard the German machin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Axmann
Elisabeth Axmann (Siret, 19 June 1926 – Cologne, 21 April 2015) was a Romanian writer, art and literature critic. She spent her childhood in Bukovina, Moldavia and Transylvania. Axmann moved to Germany in 1977. Selected works * ''Spiegelufer. Gedichte 1968-2004''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2004 (2nd Ed. 2017). * ''Wege, Städte. Erinnerungen''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2005. * ''Fünf Dichter aus der Bukowina'' ( Alfred Margul-Sperber, Rose Ausländer, Moses Rosenkranz, Alfred Kittner, Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...). Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2007. . * ''Die Kunststrickerin. Erinnerungssplitter''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2010. * ''Glykon. Gedichte.'' Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2012. References External links Biography at Rimbaud (Publishers)* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Romania
Events from the year 1998 in Romania. Incumbents * President of Romania: Emil Constantinescu * Prime Minister of Romania: ** until 30 March: Victor Ciorbea ** 30 March–17 April: Gavril Dejeu (interim) ** starting 17 April: Radu Vasile Events January * 18 January – Baia de Arieș is granted town status. March * 30 March – Victor Ciorbea resigns from being prime minister. Gavril Dejeu replaces him as acting prime minister. April * 2 April – President Emil Constantinescu appoints Radu Vasile to be the new prime minister. * 15 April – The Parliament grants the investiture vote to the Radu Vasile Cabinet with 317 votes in favour and 124 against. * 17 April – The Vasile Cabinet takes its oath of office. October * 26 October – The Romanian Supreme Court rehabilitates a member of Ion Antonescu's World War II-era Axis government, Toma Ghițulescu. Undated * Euroinstal company is founded in Timișoara. * Radu Dinulescu, "the Eichmann of Romania", is rehabilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatol Vieru
Anatol Vieru (; 8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian-Jewish music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, and chamber music. He also wrote three operas: ''Iona'' (1976), ''Praznicul Calicilor'' (1981), and ''Telegrame, Tema si Variatiuni'' (1983). He was awarded the Herder Prize in 1986. He was the father of pianist, writer, and mathematician Andrei Vieru. List of works Dramatic *Iona (op, 1, after M. Sorescu and sketches by M.C. Escher), 1972–75, concert perf. Bucharest, 31 October 1976 *Praznicul calicilor he Feast of the Beggars(op, after M. Sorbul), 1978–80, Berlin, 1991 *Telegrame (mini-op, after I.L. Caragiale), 1983 *Tema cu variatiuni heme and Variations(mini-op, after Caragiale), 1983 *Ultimele zile, ultimele ore he Last Days, the Last Hours(op, 3, after A.S. Pushkin: Motsart i Sal'yeri and M.A. Bulgakov: Poslednie dni he Last Days, 1990–95 Film scores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta Brătescu
Geta Brătescu (4 May 1926 – 19 September 2018) was a Romanian visual artist with works in drawing, collage, photography, performance, illustration and film. In 2008, Brătescu received an honorary doctorate from the Bucharest National University of Arts for "her outstanding contributions to the development of contemporary Romanian art". Brătescu was artistic director of literature and art magazine ''Secolul 21''. A major retrospective of her work was held at the National Museum of Art of Romania in December 1999. In 2015 Brătescu's first UK solo exhibition was held at the Tate Liverpool. In 2017, she was selected to represent Romania at the 57th Venice Biennale. Biography Brătescu studied at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, between 1945 and 1949 under George Călinescu and Tudor Vianu, and at the Academy of Fine Arts under Camil Ressu. She was expelled from the latter before completing her degree due to the rise of the Communist party - since her pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Romania
Events from the year 2010 in Romania. Incumbents *President of Romania, President: Traian Băsescu *Prime Minister of Romania, Prime Minister: Emil Boc Events * February 19 - Romania is set to introduce a taxation, tax on fast food in March. * May 19 - At least 40,000 Romanians rally in Bucharest to protest planned wage cuts the government says are needed to shore up the ailing economy. * June 25 - The Constitutional Court of Romania rules that government budget plans are "unconstitutional"; this decision cannot be appealed. * June 29 - At least 21 people die and hundreds are evacuated after 2010 Romanian floods, major floods in the northeast of Romania. * August 31 - Fossils of Balaur_bondoc, Balaur genus dinosaur are unearthed in Romania. * September 2 - Sebastian Vlădescu is replaced as Romanian Ministry of Public Finance (Romania), Minister of Finance by Gheorghe Ialomitianu as part of a Cabinet reshuffle. Deaths January * January 5 - Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ștefan Gheorghiu (violinist)
Ştefan Gheorghiu (March 23, 1926 – March 17, 2010) was a Romanian musician, violinist and teacher, born in Galați, Romania. At 5 he starts studying the violin and at 9 becomes student of the Royal Music Academy in Bucharest. George Enescu recommended him and his brother Valentin Gheorghiu - pianist, for a scholarship at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied the violin with Maurice Hewitt and musical harmony and counterpoint with Noel Gallon. During the war he continued studies in Bucharest with Garabet Avakian and Mihail Jora. Gheorghiu finished his studies in Moscow, attending the violin performing art masterclasses of David Oistrakh. Since 1946 he was appointed concert-soloist of the State Philharmonic in Bucharest, where he performed both in symphonic concerts and in violin recitals. He was member of the Romanian Trio, together with Valentin Gheorghiu and Radu Aldulescu. At the first edition of the George Enescu International Competition in 1958, he won the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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