1924 in Romania

Events from the year 1924 in Romania. The year saw the first time that the country competed as a team in the Summer Olympic Games, and, although the country won no medals, Romania went on to enter every subsequent game apart from 1932 Summer Olympics.

Incumbents

Events

1 January – The Aeronautica Regală Română, or Romanian Royal Aeronautics, is founded.
29 March – Rioters in Bucharest target Jews in anti-semitic attacks that continued through the night into the next morning.
3 April – The Italian government issues Romania with an ultimatum requiring a payment of 80 million Italian lira for outstanding debts. Several Regia Marina warships are stationed off the port of Constanța to back up the demand.
10 April – King Ferdinand and Queen Marie arrive in Paris on a royal visit. Though officially only a friendly visit, it was believed that Romania was seeking an alliance with France as a counter to unfriendly relations with Italy, Russia and Spain.
11 April – The Romanian government bans the Romanian Communist Party.
16 April – Romania announces it has settled its debts with Italy.
27 May – The Romania national football team compete for the first time in the 1924 Summer Olympics. They are defeated 6–0 by the Netherlands.
29 May – An ammunition depot explodes in Cotroceni, causing $3 million damage to the Royal Palace and other buildings.
5 July – Romania enters the Summer Olympics for the first time as a team. Although the team does not receive any medals, the country goes on to compete in every game apart from the 1932 games.
10 August – Romania is one of the nine countries represented at the first First International Silent Games held in Paris.
12 October – The declaration of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic heightens tensions between Moldovans and Romanians.
25 November – The Bucharest government vote one million lei to construct a crematorium.
23 December – Nicolae Bretan's opera Golem is first performed at the Hungarian Theater in Cluj.

Births

2 January – Victor Mercea, nuclear physicist.
15 February – Kemal Karpat, historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
20 February – Eugen Barbu, novelist, short story writer, and journalist.
8 March – Alma Redlinger, painter and illustrator.
15 June – Hédi Szmuk, Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist, survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
15 August – Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, poet.
26 August – Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, mathematician.
8 September – Solange d'Herbez de la Tour, architect.
5 October – Marianne Fillenz, neuroscientist.
27 November – Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru, pen name Nina Cassian, children's author, journalist, poet, translator and film critic.
17 December – Alexander Bickel, legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution.

Deaths

15 April – Eduard Caudella, composer.
19 October – Iancu Flondor, politician who advocated the Union of Bukovina with Romania.
22 October – Wilhelm Knechtel, botanist and numismatist.