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1847 - A huge fire devastates Bucharest, ruining more than one fifth of the city (23 - 24 March)
1847 - Birth of Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, theoretician of literature, member of the Romanian Academy (d. 27 February 1920)
1882 - Birth of prose writer, publicist Romulus Cioflec (d. 13 November 1955)
1885 - Birth of architect Duiliu Marcu, member of the Romanian Academy (d. 9 March 1966)
1894 - Death of historian, publicist and philologist Theodor Codrescu, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1 April 1819)
1902 - Death of Bishop Iosif Goldis, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (b. 17 February 1836)
1912 - Birth of actor Geo Barton (d. 10 June 1982)
1914 - Birth of musicologist and composer George Sbarcea (d. 28 July 2005)
1917 - Proclamation of Ferdinand I, King of Romania (1914-1927) by which he promises land to the peasants and universal vote
1935 - Signing in Bucharest of the Romanian-German Treaty of Clearing, Trade and Navigation
1939 - Signing of the Romanian-German economic agreement: Treaty upon economic relations' promotion between the Kingdom of Romania and the German Reich.
1945 - The agrarian reform is legislated
1946 - Death of composer, educator Alexandru Zirra (b. 14 July 1883)
1947 - Birth of graphic designer Nicolae Alexi
1949 - Birth of pop singer Mircea Vintila
1961 - Death of essayist, poet and translator Alexandru Busuioceanu (b. 10 January 1896)
1969 - Death of prose writer Tudor Teodorescu-Braniste (b. 12 April 1899)
1978 - Death of actor Tudor (Tudorel) Popa (b. 24 December 1925)
1985 - Death of documentary film director and scenarist Mirel Iliesiu (b. 18 October 1923)
2005 - Excellence Centre in Neurosurgery inaugurated in Bucharest
2011 - Death of explorer Teodor Gheorghe Negoita, first Romanian at the North Pole (1995). He founded (2006) and headed the first and only Romanian polar research station in Antarctica, Law-Racovita (b. 27 September 1947)
2012 - UN Human Rights Council adopts in Geneva, the Resolution on the human rights, democracy and rule of law, initiated by Romania.
2013 - Mariana Dragescu, pilot in the White Squad, the only medical squadron exclusively of women pilots in the WWII, dies at 100 (b. 7 September 1912).
2019 - Death of film critic, historian Tudor Caranfil. (b. 14 September 1931).AGERPRES
