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See also:	Other events of 1917 History of Romania Timeline of Romanian history Years in Romania

Events from the year 1917 in Romania.

Incumbents

• King: Ferdinand I of Romania
• Prime Minister: Ion I. C. Brătianu

Events

• January 13: Ciurea rail disaster. The worst rail accident in Romanian history^[1] and third worst in the history of the world,^[2] with most estimates falling between 800 and 1000 deaths.
• July 22-August 1: Battle of Mărăști
• August 6-September 8: Battle of Mărășești. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front during World War I.^[3]
• August 8–22: Third Battle of Oituz
• September 13: Romania establishes diplomatic relations with Japan.^[4] King Ferdinand names Nicolae Xenopol as plenipotentiary minister to Tokyo.
• December 9: Armistice of Focșani is signed, ending the hostilities between Romania and the Central Powers.^[5]

Births

Pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti

• March 18: Mircea Ionescu-Quintus – politician, senator, centenarian, Minister of Justice and chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 1993 to 2001.^[6]
• March 19: Dinu Lipatti – classical pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the Romanian Academy.^[7]
• June 6: Ion Rațiu – politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) in the 1990 elections.^[8]
• June 20: Iosif Constantin Drăgan – Romanian and Italian businessman, writer, historian and founder of the ButanGas company, who was at one time the richest man in Romania.^[9]
• August 28: Horia Lovinescu – playwright.^[10]
• August 22: Alexandru Piru – literary critic, historian and member of the Parliament between 1990 and 1992.^[11]
• August 25: Ion Diaconescu – anti-Communist activist and politician who spent seventeen years as a political prisoner and later became a leader of the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD).^[12]
• September 3: Eugen Frunză – poet who co-wrote the lyrics to Te slăvim, Românie, which was the national anthem between 1953 and 1975.^[13]
• November 18: Dinu Negreanu - director who created a string of films in the 1950s.^[14]
• December 13: Miron Constantinescu – communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist.^[15]

Deaths

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  Literary critic Titu Maiorescu
  February 9: Aurel Popovici – lawyer and politician who proposed the federalization of Austria-Hungary under the United States of Greater Austria.^[16]
• May 14: Emil Rebreanu - Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I for trying to desert to the Romanian side. The 1922 novel Forest of the Hanged by his brother, Liviu Rebreanu, is influenced by his experience.^[17]
• June 18: Titu Maiorescu - literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.^[18]
• August 27: Ion Grămadă – writer, historian and journalist who died in battle.^[19]
• August 28: Calistrat Hogaș – prose writer whose collected short stories were published posthumously.^[20]
• September 3: Ecaterina Teodoroiu - woman who fought and died in World War I, and is regarded as war hero of Romania, where she is known as the ”heroine of the Jiu”.^[21]
• December 18: Nicolae Xenopol – Politician, diplomat, economist, writer and first Romanian ambassador to Japan. Died in Tokyo, only months after taking the position.^[22]

References