* Adrian Cioroianu ( born 1967 ), Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist

* 1850 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist ( d. 1909 )

* 1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian and archaeologist ( b. 1850 )

* March 9 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian and writer ( d. 1986 )

* April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer ( b. 1907 )

* October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia ( d. 1909 )

The Romanian historian Tudor Sălăgean thinks that by 1325 Basarab had already been in possession of the strategic fortress of Severin as a result of a peace treaty between Hungary and Wallachia in 1324.

An alternative version, by Ștefan Ciobanu, Romanian historian and academician, holds that the name was formed the same way as the name of Chișineu ( alternative spelling: Chișinău ) in Western Romania, near the border with Hungary.

The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade also noted that Arada, along with Irodiada, was a name used for a Romanian folkloric Queen of the Fairies ( Doamna Zinelor ), whom he believed was a " metamorphosis of Diana ".

Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986 ) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

In the 1930s, Eliade edited the collected works of Romanian historian Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

The historian Nicolae Iorga said " There should be no Romanian who does not know of it ".

The revolutionary year 1848 had its echoes in the Romanian principalities and in Transylvania, and a new elite from the middle of the 19th century emerged from the revolutions: Mihail Kogălniceanu ( writer, politician and the first prime minister of Romania ), Vasile Alecsandri ( politician, playwright and poet ), Andrei Mureşanu ( publicist and the writer of the current Romanian National Anthem ) and Nicolae Bălcescu ( historian, writer and revolutionary ).

Among the greatest personalities from this period are: the novelist and publicist Ioan Slavici, the prose writer Panait Istrati, the poet and writer Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea, the poet and publicist George Coşbuc, the poet Ştefan Octavian Iosif, the historian and founder of Romanian press in Transylvania George Bariţiu and Badea Cârţan, a simple peasant shepherd from Southern Transylvania who, through his actions became a symbol of the emancipation movement.

Matthias Corvinus ' court historian Antonio Bonfini flattered his king by tracing the family's ancestry to the Roman gens Corvina, or Valeriana, while adding: " for this man was indeed born of a Romanian father and a Hungarian mother " A contemporary Hungarian historian Johannes de Thurocz, similarly flattering his king, wrote in the Chronicle of the Hungarians ( Chronica Hungarorum ) that the Hunyadi family was of Hunnic origin, even calling Matthias Corvinus the " Second Attila ".

His primary mentors there were Mircea Eliade, the influential Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher ; Frank Reynolds ( South Asian Buddhism ), Charles Long ( indigenous religions ) and Joseph Kitagawa ( East Asian Buddhism ).

George Călinescu is another complex personality of the Romanian literature: novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic and historian, essayist, journalist.

:* Neagu Djuvara: a Romanian historian who wrote Civilisations et lois historique.

Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga ; January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940 ) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright.

The Siguranţa Statului intelligence agency soon opened a file on the historian, informing Romanian Premier Sturdza about nationalist agitation.

* 1968 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.

* 1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer ( b. 1887 )

* 1871 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer ( d. 1940 )

As people scramble for answers, a relatively unknown, Romanian politician named Nicolae Jetty Carpathia rises to become secretary-general of the United Nations, promising to restore peace and stability to all nations.

For instance, Nicolae Ceauşescu of Romania, who ruled until his execution ( see Romanian revolution ).

** Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator ( d. 1989 )

* June 13 – June 1990 Mineriad: Fighting breaks out in Romania in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, between the supporters of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and those of the new regime.

* September 26 – Nicu Ceauşescu, son of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu ( b. 1951 )

* December 9 – Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.

* March 22 – Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.

* December 21 – Nicolae Ceausescu addresses an assembly of some 110, 000 people outside the Romanian Communist Party HQ in Bucharest.

** Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena are executed by military troops after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.

** Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator, Communist Party head and President of the Republic ( executed ) ( b. 1918 )

The Gheorghe Tattarescu Museum contains portraits of Romanian revolutionaries in exile such as Gheorghe Magheru, Ștefan Golescu, Nicolae Bălcescu and allegorical compositions with revolutionary ( Romania's rebirth, 1849 ) and patriotic ( The Principalities ' Unification, 1857 ) themes.

Nicolae Ceaușescu (; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989 ) was a Romanian Communist politician.

Romanian surgeon Nicolae Racoviceanu-Piteşti ( 1860 – 1942 ) was the first to use opioids for intrathecal analgesia ; he presented his experience in Paris in 1901.

The 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops of Czechoslovakia and the suppression of the Prague Spring were also applauded by Ulbricht – East German soldiers were among those massed on the border but did not cross over, probably due to Czech sensitivities about German troops on their soil – and earned him a reputation as a staunch Soviet ally in contrast to Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, who condemned the invasion.

The leading Verdi baritones of the 1970s and ' 80s were probably Italy's Renato Bruson and Piero Cappuccilli, America's Sherrill Milnes, Sweden's Ingvar Wixell and the Romanian baritone Nicolae Herlea.

Among foreign visitors welcomed by Sauvé were King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Hussein of Jordan, Pope John Paul II, Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, French president François Mitterrand, Chinese president Li Xiannian, Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mother Teresa, and, eventually, President Reagan.

This is the reason why Nicolae Bălcescu called it the " Romanian Marseillaise ".

He was also interested in philosophy — studying, among others, Socrates, Vasile Conta, and the Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, and read works of history — the two Romanian historians who influenced him from early on were Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga.