1931 in Romania

Events from the year 1931 in Romania. The year was dominated by the Great Depression.

Incumbents

• King: Carol II.
• Prime Minister:
• Gheorghe Mironescu (until 17 April)
• Nicolae Iorga (from 18 April)

Events

• 11 January – The government dissolves the far-right Iron Guard.
• 4 May – The right-wing Jewish Party, is founded.
• 1 June – 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 Å¢epeş League, the Agrarian League and several other parties wins 49% of the vote.
• 17 July – The Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art () is founded, which will later become the National University of Music Bucharest.
• 15 August – The newspaper of the Communist Party, Scânteia, is first printed.
• 22 October – 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 – The Romanian Basketball and Volleyball Federation () is founded, which becomes the Romanian Basketball Federation ().

Births

• 1 January – Sabetai Unguru, historian of mathematics and science at Tel Aviv University (died 2024).
• 4 January – Nora Iuga, poet, writer and translator.
• 24 January – Maria Piątkowska, sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper, who competed in the 1952, 1960 and 1964 Olympics for Poland (died 2020).
• 26 January – Felicia Donceanu, painter, sculptor, and composer (died 2022).
• 13 February – Eva Heyman, diarist murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
• 1 March – Elisabeta Bostan, film director and screenwriter.
• 2 April – Alexandru Balaban, chemist and member of the Romanian Academy.
• 23 May – Lucian Mureșan, Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
• 1 June – Petru Mocanu, mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy (died 2016).
• 9 July – Tatiana Nicolescu, historian of Romanian and Russian literature and translator.
• 15 October – Eléna Wexler-Kreindler, mathematician (died 1992).
• 28 October – Ilarion Ciobanu, actor (died 2008).
• 9 December – Valeria Gagealov, film, radio, television, theater and voice actress (died 2021).

Deaths

• 17 July – Nicolae Paulescu, physiologist, expert in diabetes and insulin (born 1869).
• 9 September – Matilda Cugler-Poni, poet (born 1851).

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