1917 in Romania

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Events from the year 1917 in Romania.

Incumbents

• King: Ferdinand I of Romania
• Prime Minister: Ion I. C. Brătianu

Events

• January 13: Ciurea rail disaster. The worst rail accident in Romanian history[1] and third worst in the history of the world,[2] with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.
• July 22-August 1: Battle of Mărăști
• August 6-September 8: Battle of Mărășești. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front during World War I.[3]
• August 8–22: Third Battle of Oituz
• September 13: Romania establishes diplomatic relations with Japan.[4] King Ferdinand names Nicolae Xenopol as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo.
• December 9: Armistice of Focșani is signed, ending the hostilities between Romania and the Central Powers.[5]

Births

Pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti

• March 18: Mircea Ionescu-Quintus – politician, senator, centenarian, Minister of Justice and chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 1993 to 2001.[6]
• March 19: Dinu Lipatti – classical pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the Romanian Academy.[7]
• June 6: Ion Rațiu – politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) in the 1990 elections.[8]
• June 20: Iosif Constantin Drăgan – Romanian and Italian businessman, writer, historian and founder of the ButanGas company, who was at one time the richest man in Romania.[9]
• August 28: Horia Lovinescu [ro] – playwright.[10]
• August 22: Alexandru Piru – literary critic, historian and member of the Parliament between 1990 and 1992.[11]
• August 25: Ion Diaconescu – anti-Communist activist and politician who spent seventeen years as a political prisoner and later became a leader of the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD).[12]
• September 3: Eugen Frunză – poet who co-wrote the lyrics to Te slăvim, Românie, which was the national anthem between 1953 and 1975.[13]
• November 18: Dinu Negreanu - director who created a string of films in the 1950s.[14]
• December 13: Miron Constantinescu – communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.[15]

Deaths

• 

  Literary critic Titu Maiorescu

  February 9: Aurel Popovici – lawyer and politician who proposed the federalization of Austria-Hungary under the United States of Greater Austria.[16]
• May 14: Emil Rebreanu - Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I for trying to desert to the Romanian side. The 1922 novel Forest of the Hanged by his brother, Liviu Rebreanu, is influenced by his experience.[17]
• June 18: Titu Maiorescu - literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.[18]
• August 27: Ion Grămadă – writer, historian and journalist who died in battle.[19]
• August 28: Calistrat Hogaș – prose writer whose collected short stories were published posthumously.[20]
• September 3: Ecaterina Teodoroiu - woman who fought and died in World War I, and is regarded as war hero of Romania, where she is known as the ”heroine of the Jiu”.[21]
• December 18: Nicolae Xenopol – Politician, diplomat, economist, writer and first Romanian ambassador to Japan. Died in Tokyo, only months after taking the position.[22]

References

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2. Segen, Joseph C. (2011-05-24). The Doctors' Dictionary, 2nd edition: A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors. BookBaby. ISBN 9781617926747.
3. "În urmă cu 101 de ani avea loc cea mai mare bătălie de pe Frontul românesc din Primul Război Mondial". descopera.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
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5. United States, Department of State, ed. (1918). "Preliminary Treaty of Peace. Signed at the Castle Of Buftea, near Bucharest, 7 P.M., 5 March 1918". Texts of the Roumanian "Peace". Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 2–4.
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7. Cretoiu, Andrei (2015-09-14). "Dinu Lipatti – muzica în forma ei cea mai pură". EU aleg România (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
8. Pop, Florina (21 May 2014). "Cea mai elegantă definiţie a democraţiei. Ion Raţiu: "Voi lupta până la ultima mea picătură de sânge ca să ai dreptul să nu fii de acord cu mine!"". adevarul.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
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10. "Rătăcirile tînărului Lovinescu (I)". Observator Cultural (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
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12. Brădățeanu, V. "PORTRET: Liderul țărănist Ion Diaconescu – 100 de ani de la naștere". www.rador.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
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16. Popovici, Aurel (2013). "The Proposed Federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Work The United States of Greater Austria". Historický časopis (Historical Journal). 61. Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences: 29–50.
17. "Cum şi-a transformat Liviu Rebreanu execuţia fratelui său de pe front într-un roman tradus în opt limbi". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
18. "Titu Maiorescu: "Critica unde trebuie și constructivă unde poate"… | Radio Iaşi – Cel mai ascultat radio regional – știri, muzică și evenimente". www.radioiasi.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-11-12.
19. "Tributul scriitorilor în Marele Război: Ion Grămadă, eroul Bucovinei". Retrieved 2018-11-12.
20. "Portret: Calistrat Hogaş – scriitorul "singurătății munților"". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
21. "PORTRET: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – legenda "eroinei de la Jiu", la 101 de ani de la sacrificiul suprem". Radio România Cultural (in Romanian). 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
22. "Despre primii diplomati japonezi la Bucuresti". Retrieved 2018-11-12.