2016 in Romania

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Incumbents[]

• President: Klaus Iohannis
• Prime Minister: Dacian Cioloș

Events[]

January[]

• 29 January – President Klaus Iohannis promulgates a law banning smoking in public areas, two days after the CCR declared it constitutional.^[1][2]

February[]

• 5 February – Five people are killed and 28 seriously injured after a bus and a tip lorry collide on the Western Belt of Ploiești.^[3]
• 10 February – Former commander of Râmnicu Sărat Penitentiary Alexandru Vișinescu is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity,^[4] becoming the first communist torturer to be convicted in Romania.^[5]
• 16 February
  • The warmest day of February of the last 55 years, with temperatures 18 °C higher than the normal in Bucharest.^[6]
  • Three babies die and several dozens from Prahova, Dolj and Bucharest are hospitalized with HUS-associated symptoms after being infected with a bacterium of unknown provenance.^[7]

March[]

• 14 March – The death toll of the Colectiv nightclub fire reaches 64, almost five months after the tragedy.^[8]

May[]

• 9 May – Minister of Health resigns due to mismanagement of the diluted disinfectants crisis.^[9]
• 12 May – US and NATO officials activate a land-based missile defense station at Deveselu, part of a larger and controversial European shield.^[10][11][12]
• 29 May – 20 people are injured after a footbridge breaks during an electoral event in Plopu, Prahova County.^[13]

June[]

• 1 June – About 10,000 employees in the education system protest in Bucharest, demanding the resignation of the Cioloș Cabinet, dissatisfied with the teacher pay scale proposed by the Government.^[14][15]
• 5 June – Local elections are held across Romania. The Social Democratic Party comes in first with 38.98% of mayor seats nationwide, including Bucharest, followed by the National Liberal Party with 31.50%.

July[]

• 5 June – Prime Minister Dacian Cioloş announces a cabinet shuffle as the four ministers (Education, Transport, Communications and Diaspora) are replaced. The new ministers took office on 7 July.^[16]

September[]

• 13 September – French President François Hollande begins a one-day state visit to Romania, the first state visit by a French president since François Mitterrand came to Romania in 1991.^[17]
• 24 September – A magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes Vrancea County, with tremors being felt as far as Bucharest and the Republic of Moldova.^[18] This is the largest deep earthquake since 2009.^[19]

November[]

• 5 November – A 29-car pile-up on Sun Motorway results in four deaths and nearly 60 injuries.^[20][21]

December[]

• 2 December – A shooting left at least 3 people dead including the gunman and another 2 were injured. The shooting occurred in Palilula a village in Dolj County.^[22][23]
• 11 December – 2016 Romanian legislative election

Sports[]

• 2 March – 2015–16 Cupa României: 1st leg semi-final
• 20 April – 2015–16 Cupa Romaniei: 2nd leg semi-final
• 8 May – CSM București wins the Women's EHF Champions League trophy, after beating Győri Audi ETO KC by a score of 29–26 (13–12, 22–22), after overtime and 7-meter throws, in the final held at the László Papp Sports Arena in Budapest.
• 14 May – 2016 Cupa României Final
• 10 June – UEFA Euro 2016 Group A: France v. Romania
• 15 June – UEFA Euro 2016 Group A: Romania v. Switzerland
• 19 June – UEFA Euro 2016 Group A: Romania v. Albania
• 5–21 August – 88 members of the Romanian national team will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Arts and entertainment[]

• Lara Fabian returns to Romania for two new concerts, in Cluj-Napoca, on 20 April, and Bucharest, on 22 April.^[24]
• 22 April – Romania is expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 after its national broadcaster TVR failed to pay debts dating back to 2007.^[25][26][27] This is the first time in the 61-year history of the Eurovision Song Contest a country is expelled from the competition.^[28]
• 18–22 May – The seventh edition of International Poetry Festival takes place in Bucharest, having as guests more than 100 poets from more than 20 countries.
• 11 June – Dutch violinist André Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra will concert in Bucharest.
• 21 June – Queen and Adam Lambert will concert for the first time in Romania, in the Constitution Square of Bucharest.^[29]
• 4–7 August – The second edition of Untold Festival will take place in Cluj-Napoca.^[30]

Deaths[]

January[]

• 2 January – George Alexandru, actor (b. 1957)
• 7 January – Cristian Moisescu, Mayor of Arad (1992–96) (b. 1947)
• 10 January – Teofil Codreanu, footballer (b. 1941)
• 12 January – Melania Ursu, actress (b. 1940)
• 16 January – Theodor Danetti, actor (b. 1926)
• 17 January – Ion Panțuru, bobsledder (b. 1934)
• 18 January – , journalist and children's books writer (b. 1932)
• 22 January – Constantin Mihail, athletics coach (b. 1945)
• 23 January – Elisabeta Polihroniade, chess player (b. 1935)
• 26 January – , history teacher and political prisoner (b. 1932)
• 27 January – , actress and film director (b. 1918)
• 31 January – Miron Chichișan, Mayor of Zalău (1992–96) (b. 1945)

February[]

• 9 February – Alexandru Vulpe, historian and archaeologist, member of Romanian Academy (b. 1931)
• 10 February – , football player and coach (b. 1949)
• 16 February – Mircea Costache II, handball player (b. 1940)
• 17 February – Gelu Barbu, ballerino and choreographer (b. 1932)
• 18 February – Rudolf Fischer, historian and linguist (b. 1923)
• 21 February – Pascal Bentoiu, composer and musicologist (b. 1927)
• 28 February – , writer (b. 1933)

March[]

• 3 March – , politician (b. 1939)
• 8 March
  • , writer and diplomat (b. 1932)
  • , journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 11 March – Iolanda Balaș, Olympic high jumper (b. 1936)
• 17 March
  • Solomon Marcus, mathematician, member of Romanian Academy (b 1925)
  • , theatre actress (b. 1942)
• 18 March – Șerban Iliescu, journalist and linguist (b. 1955)
• 26 March – Radu Mareș, writer (b. 1941)
• 27 March – , endocrinologist, member of Romanian Academy (b. 1943)
• 28 March – Petru Mocanu, mathematician, member of Romanian Academy (b. 1931)
• 30 March – Aristotel Stamatoiu, director of Romanian Intelligence Service (1986–1990) (b. 1929)

April[]

• 5 April – Cornel Patrichi, ballerino, choreographer and actor (b. 1944)
• 6 April – , sports journalist (b. 1922 or 1923)
• 7 April – , businessman (b. 1959)
• 8 April – Mircea Albulescu, actor (b. 1934)
• 13 April – Márton Balázs, mathematician (b. 1929)
• 21 April – Valeriu Cotea, oenologist, member of Romanian Academy (b. 1926)
• 25 April
  • Dumitru Antonescu, footballer (b. 1945)
  • Neculai Rățoi, Mayor of Pașcani (b. 1939)
• 29 April – , director of Securitate (1985–1989) (b. 1934)

May[]

• 13 May – Doina Florica Ignat, politician, member of the Senate of Romania (b. 1938)
• 14 May – Neculai Alexandru Ursu, linguist, philologist and literary historian (b. 1926)
• 17 May – Alexandru Lăpușan, politician, Minister of Agriculture (b. 1955)
• 20 May
  • Vasile Duță, politician, member of the Senate of Romania (b. 1955)
  • Bogdan Ulmu, theatre director and writer (b. 1951)
• 22 May – , businessman (b. 1975)
• 25 May – József Tempfli, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1931)
• 26 May – Ted Dumitru, football manager (b. 1939)
• 30 May – , engineer (b. 1933)
• 31 May – , economist (b. 1977)

June[]

• 1 June – Grigore Obreja, sprint canoeist (b. 1967)
• 5 June – , journalist (b. 1955)
• 6 June – , writer (b. 1955)
• 8 June
  • Alexandru Bizim, athletics coach (b. 1934)
  • , philologist (b. 1947)
• 10 June – , oină player (b. 1955)
• 11 June – , footballer (b. 1933)
• 13 June
  • , jurist and university professor (b. 1950)
  • , politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania (b. 1937)
• 14 June – , journalist (b. 1942)
• 18 June
  • , physician, co-founder of SMURD (b. 1933)
  • , theatre and television director (b. 1940)
• 19 June
  • Mihnea Berindei, historian (b. 1948)
  • Nicolae Bocșan, historian (b. 1947)
  • Victor Stănculescu, general officer and politician (b. 1928)

July[]

• 1 July
  • , writer and essayist (b. 1928)
  • , rugby union player (b. 1934)
• 2 July – Elie Wiesel, writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor (b. 1928)
• 8 July – , physician (b. 1957)
• 11 July – , actor (b. 1956)
• 18 July – , painter (b. 1908)
• 20 July
  • Radu Beligan, actor (b. 1918)
  • , rugby union player (b. 1943 or 1944)
• 21 July – , singer (b. 1968)
• 28 July – , director, editor and lecturer (b. 1924)

August[]

• 1 August – Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
• 3 August – , painter (b. 1925)
• 4 August – , footballer (b. 1933)
• 5 August – , dendrologist (b. 1934)
• 6 August – , speleologist (b. 1925)
• 7 August – , athletics coach and politician (b. 1937)
• 12 August – , professor (b. 1936)
• 19 August – Adrian Enescu, musician and composer (b. 1948)
• 21 August – Marin Moraru, actor (b. 1937)

September[]

• 1 September – , folk singer (b. 1926)
• 25 September – , officer and politician (b. 1950)
• 26 September – Ioan Gyuri Pascu, musician and actor (b. 1961)
• 27 September
  • Sebastian Papaiani, actor (b. 1936)
  • , folk singer (b. 1970)

October[]

• 4 October – , writer and playwright (b. 1927)
• 9 October – , jazz singer and saxophonist (b. 1944)
• 19 October – Radu Câmpeanu, politician (b. 1922)
• 20 October – , theatre director and university professor (b. 1932)
• 21 October
  • , writer, theoretician and essayist (b. 1942)
  • Constantin Frățilă, footballer (b. 1942)
• 25 October
  • Margit Bara, actress (b. 1928)
  • , politician (b. 1951)
• 27 October – , composer, teacher, poet, translator and musicologist (b. 1936)
• 30 October – , bishop (b. 1921)

November[]

December[]

• 8 December – , writer (b. 1935)

See also[]

• List of Romanian films of 2016

References[]