Events from the year 1931 in Romania. The year was dominated by the Great Depression.
Incumbents
Events
- 11 January â The government dissolves the far-right Iron Guard.
- 4 May â The right-wing Jewish Party, is founded.
- 1 June â In a general election, the National Union, an alliance of the National Party, the National Liberal Party, the German Party, the Agrarian Union Party, the Vlad Ã
¢epeÃ
 League, the Agrarian League and several other parties wins 49% of the vote.
- 17 July â The Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art () is founded, which will later become the National University of Music Bucharest.
- 15 August â The newspaper of the Communist Party, Scânteia, is first printed.
- 22 October â The failure of the Marmorosch Blank Bank, which followed the collapse of Banca Generala a Tarii Romanesti in June and Banca Bercovitz in July, triggers the peak of the Great Depression in Romania.
- Unknown â The Romanian Basketball and Volleyball Federation () is founded, which becomes the Romanian Basketball Federation ().
Births
- 1 January â Sabetai Unguru, historian of mathematics and science at Tel Aviv University (died 2024).
- 4 January â Nora Iuga, poet, writer and translator.
- 24 January â Maria PiÃÂ
tkowska, sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper, who competed in the 1952, 1960 and 1964 Olympics for Poland (died 2020).
- 26 January â Felicia Donceanu, painter, sculptor, and composer (died 2022).
- 13 February â Eva Heyman, diarist murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
- 1 March â Elisabeta Bostan, film director and screenwriter.
- 2 April â Alexandru Balaban, chemist and member of the Romanian Academy.
- 23 May â Lucian MureÃÂan, Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Archdiocese of FÃÂgÃÂraàand Alba Iulia and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- 1 June â Petru Mocanu, mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy (died 2016).
- 9 July â Tatiana Nicolescu, historian of Romanian and Russian literature and translator.
- 15 October â Eléna Wexler-Kreindler, mathematician (died 1992).
- 28 October â Ilarion Ciobanu, actor (died 2008).
- 9 December â Valeria Gagealov, film, radio, television, theater and voice actress (died 2021).
Deaths
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