1486 - Battle of Schea (Roman County). The Turkish army under the command of Bali beg Malkocoglu enters Moldova, Prince Stephan the Great attacks and defeats the Turks at Schea.
1821 - The forces of Tudor Vladimirescu occupy Slatina
1835 - Birth of general, mathematician and historian Stefan Falcoianu, member of the Romanian Academic Society (d. Jan. 22, 1905)
1866 - Birth of composer and Professor Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu (d. Jan. 8, 1928)
1919 - Hungary is handed the resolution of the inter-allied Military Council in Paris (the Vyx Note) obliging the Hungarian troops to withdraw from Transylvania
1920 - Birth of actor Ernest Maftei (d. Oct. 19, 2006)
1933 - Birth of actress Margareta Pogonat (d. May 11, 2014)
1934 - Birth of poet Dimitrie Rachici (d. Feb. 1, 1999)
1939 - Death in Cannes of Miron Cristea (Elie Cristea), the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (1925-1939), Prime Minister of Romania (1938-1939) (b. July 18, 1868)
1945 - Installation of the government headed by Dr. Petru Groza, the first government of Romania with a majority of Romanian Communist Party members
1958 - Birth of composer George Natsis
1969 - Birth of actress Ilinca Goia
1972 - Death of actor Mircea Constantinescu (b. Dec. 18, 1904)
1986 - Death of poet and translator Alexandru Rally (b. Sept. 7, 1897)
1989 - Death of historian Vasile Netea (b. Feb. 1, 1912)
1991 - Death of physician Ionel S. Pavel, member of the Romanian Academy (b. March 14/27, 1897) (25 years since)
2001 - International "Constantin Brancusi" Year officially opens at the Romanian Academy as a tribute brought under the aegis of UNESCO to the artist on the 125th anniversary of his birth
2016 - President Klaus Iohannis paid a state visit to Israel and Palestine; he was welcomed by his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas, and had meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Chairman Yuli-Yoel Edelstein. Then Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu was also part of the Romanian delegation
2019 - Ambassador Sorin Ducaru has been appointed as Director of the European Union Satellite Centre (EU SatCen), the first Romanian management position of an EU intergovernmental agency.AGERPRES
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