1891 in Romania

Events from the year 1891 in Romania. The year saw political instability and the fall of two governments, led by Gheorghe Manu and Ioan Emanoil Florescu, respectively.

Incumbents

• King: Carol I.
• Prime Minister:
• Gheorghe Manu (until 15 February).
• Ioan Emanoil Florescu (from 2 March until 29 December).
• Lascăr Catargiu (from 29 December).

Events

• 3 January – The first edition of Unirea, the newspaper of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, is published.
• 20 April – Romania issues its first commemorative stamps, to celebrate 25 years of the king's reign.
• 13 June – The first official train arrives at Bartolomeu railway station, the station having been inaugurated on 6 June.
• 15 November – Lascăr Catargiu visits Titu Maiorescu in his home for the first time in over a decade of mutual antipathy.
• 18 November – Catargiu, Iacob Lahovary and Constantin Olănescu resign from the cabinet, leaving Florescu without parliamentary backing.
• 9 December – The National Liberal Party and "Sincere Liberal" parliamentarians pass a motion of no confidence in the government.

Popular culture

Poetry

• Pui de lei ("Lion Cubs") is written and published by Ioan S. Nenițescu as part of a compliation titled ("Lion cubs. Heroic and national poems").

Births

• 31 March – Ion Pillat, poet (died 1945).
• 4 April – Dumitru Cornilescu, translator of the Bible into Romanian (died 1975).
• 27 June – Andrei Magieru, theologian (died 1960).
• 2 August – Mihail Jora, composer (died 1971).
• 22 October – Dumitru S. Panaitescu, literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer known as Perpessicius (died 1971).
• 3 December – Oscar Han, sculptor and writer (died 1976).

Deaths

• 16 May – Ion C. Brătianu, Prime Minister between 1876 and 1888 (born 1821).
• 19 August – Theodor Aman, painter, engraver and art professor (born 1831).
• 30 August – Emanoil Bacaloglu, mathematician, physicist and chemist (born 1830).

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