Timeline - Oameni Putere Romania

1918
- End of World War I
- Great Union of Romania

1923
- the end of Russian Civil War
- King Ferdinand I promulgates the Romanian Constitution after World War I, considered at that time the most modern and democratic fundamental law in Europe. Universal, equal, direct, mandatory, and secret voting is established. Only military personnel and women cannot express a political preference
1930
- The first participation of women voting in Greater Kingdom of Romania for local elections
1938
- Voting rights extended to all adult women in Romania for parliamentary elections
1939
- Beginning of World War II
1940
- Loss of Bessarabia to the USSR and the North of Bucovina to Hungary
1941
- Operation Reinhard commences the main phase of the Holocaust
- Deportation missions commence
1944
- Soviet occupation of Romania
1945
- End of World War II
- The UN Charter is signed
- The Potsdam Conference divides Europe into Western and Soviet blocs
1947
- King Michael I of Romania abdicates
- Proclamation of the People’s Republic of Romania
1948
- The creation of a High Commission for Nationalization, extending state control over industries, banks, insurance, and other areas as part of the Romanian Communist Party’s transition to a planned economy
1950
- The establishment of Radio Free Europe, which begins broadcasting in Romanian and becomes a critical voice against the communist regime in Romania
1956
- Hungarian Revolution against Bolshevik dictatorship
1957
- TVR (the National Television Channel) is founded

1959
- The Gulag closes, and surviving prisoners are released, but Gheorghiu-Dej’s regime intensifies repression and censorship, generating fear and distrust in society
1960
- The birth control pill becomes commercially available on foreign commercial markets
1965
- Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania
1966
- Ceaușescu repeals the 1957 decree that had liberalized abortions
1975
- The Women’s Liberation Movement becomes increasingly recognized in America and Europe
- The Helsinki Accords are signed
- The United States grants Romania “Most-Favored-Nation” status
1979
- Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1980
- Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and initiates the policy of Glasnost
- The International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) introduces bodybuilding and fitness competitions for women
1987
- The Brașov Rebellion occurs against the economic and social policies imposed in Socialist Romania
1989
- The Berlin Wall falls
- The Romanian Revolution takes place, during which hundreds of citizens lose their lives protesting against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu for freedom and fundamental rights
1990
- German reunification is recorded
- Romania becomes involved in an international scandal following a documentary made by an ABC news journalist at an orphanage in Sighetu Marmației
- The phenomenon of University Square and the 14-15 June miners’ events occur
- In the village of Berevoiești, several tons of files belonging to the Securitate and the Romanian Intelligence Service are discovered
1991
- Boris Yeltsin becomes the first elected president of Russia and begins the dissolution of the USSR
- Establishment of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- The Romanian Democratic Convention is founded
1992
- Earth Summit takes place, which led to the establishment of the Ministry of Waters, Forests, and Environmental Protection
1994
- Romania ratifies the European Convention on Human Rights and its protocols through Law No. 30/1994, published in the Official Gazette No. 135. The ratification instruments are submitted on June 20, 1994, validating the effects of the Convention in the international legal order
1995
Establishment of the World Trade Organization
1996
The regulation for the organization and operation of the Legislative Council is approved, based on Article 10 of Law No. 73/1993; the Legislative Council officially begins its activity based on the 1991 Constitution of Romania

1999
- The establishment of the Eurozone
2000
- The establishment of UN Women, a dedicated agency that focuses on gender equality and the empowerment of women
2001
- World Poetry Academy established
2004
- The first enlargement of the Eurozone
- Romania officially joins NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
2005
- The National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania “Elie Wiesel” is established by Government Decision
2007
- Romania’s integration into the European Union
- SMURD (Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication) becomes part of the first nationwide integrated dispatch service, 112
2008
- The 29th edition of the Olympic Games takes place in Beijing
2015
- The Paris Agreement is signed, a landmark international treaty on climate change that highlights the role of women in environmental leadership
2017
- OUG No. 13/2017 amends the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, decriminalizing abuse of office within a limit of 45,000 euros. The crime is erased from criminal records, allowing convicted officials to hold public office again. The OUG generates public protests
2018
- A state cultural institution includes the first Roma theater performance in its permanent repertoire
2020
- A state of emergency is declared in Romania in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
2019
- Temporary dissolution of the Institute of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 through Emergency Ordinance 91/2019
2022
- The National Museum of the Anti-Communist Revolution of December 1989 is established in Timișoara, in the historic building of the former Military Command
2023
- The first children’s cancer hospital built from donations is inaugurated
2024
- Romania becomes a Schengen member

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