1930 in Romania

Events from the year 1930 in Romania. The reign of Carol II started during the year, which also saw the foundation of the Iron Guard. The first local election in which women could vote and the only census of Greater Romania were also held during the year.

Incumbents

Events

5 February – Women vote for the first time in Romanian elections.
3 March – The Romanian Society of Geology is founded with Ludovic Mrazek as president.
13 April – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu forms the Iron Guard out of the far right Legion of the Archangel Michael as a larger paramilitary organisation.
18 April – 118 people die in the Costești wooden church fire.
5 June – The papal bull Solemni conventione defines the boundaries of the Catholic Church in Romania,
8 June – In a coup d'état by parliament, King Carol II takes the throne.
15 June – The National Liberal Party–Brătianu led by Gheorghe I. Brătianu is founded.
9 July – SNNA becomes LANES representing its status as a state enterprise.
30 July – The Order of Aeronautical Virtue is established as a military order.
29 December – The first and only census of Greater Romania reports that the population is 18,057,028, of which 28% are non-Romanian.

Births

6 February – Richard M. Weiner, theoretical physicist.
3 March – Ion Iliescu, President of Romania from 1989 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004.
14 March – Irma Glicman Adelman, economist.
26 April – Oliviu Gherman, physicist, politician, and diplomat.
5 July – Georgeta Pitică, table tennis player.
13 July – Simion Ismailciuc, sprint canoeist, who won gold in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
19 December – Anca Giurchescu, ethnochoreologist and researcher in folk dance.

Deaths

16 September – Vintilă Brătianu, Prime Minister of Romania between 1927 and 1928.
17 December – Olga Fialka, artist.