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What happened to the Jews in Romania

161 events, 1522 AD to 1950 AD

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16th century

  1. 1522 AD Stephen the Younger strips Jewish merchants of rights · Moldavia, Romania
  2. 1526 AD Law expelling Jews from Hungary and Transylvania · Hungary and elsewhere
  3. 1541 AD Peter Raresh robs Jewish traders · Moldavia, Romania
  4. 1574–1579 AD Heavy taxation and ill-treatment of Moldavian Jews under Peter the Lame · Moldavia, Romania
  5. 1578 AD Trade restricted for Jews to assigned places in Transylvania · Transylvania, Romania
  6. 1579 AD Banishment of the Jews ordered in Moldavia · Moldavia, Romania
  7. 1594 AD Jews killed at Jassy in Prince Aaron's rising · Iași, Romania
  8. 1594 AD Massacre of the Jews of Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  9. 1594–1595 AD Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia kill Jewish and Muslim creditors · Wallachia, Romania
  10. 1600 AD Massacre of Jews in Klausenburg by Basta's forces · Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg), Romania

17th century

  1. 1623 AD Residence of Jews limited to Alba Iulia · Alba Iulia, Romania
  2. 1623–1627 AD Bethlen grants Jews privileges of settlement, commerce and worship · Transylvania, Romania
  3. 1640 AD Church laws brand Jews heretics and forbid relations with them · Moldavia, Romania
  4. 1648 AD Cossacks kill Jews while crossing Rumania · Moldavia, Romania
  5. 1650 AD Commercial restrictions and badge decree for Jews in Transylvania · Transylvania, Romania
  6. c. 1650 AD Edict confining Jews to Carlsburg for residence · Alba Iulia (Carlsburg), Romania
  7. 1652 AD Cossacks attack the Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  8. c. 1689–1714 AD Jews restricted to one suburb of Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  9. 1695 AD Special assessments on Bucharest Jews for the Turkish war · Bucharest, Romania

18th century

  1. 1710 AD Blood libel at Neamtz · Târgu Neamț, Romania
  2. 1714 AD Blood libel at Roman · Roman, Romania
  3. 1714–1716 AD Extortion and ill-treatment of Jews under Stephen Cantacuzene · Wallachia, Romania
  4. 1715 AD Riot in Bucharest kills the Jewish provost · Bucharest, Romania
  5. 1715 AD Synagogue of Bucharest ordered demolished · Bucharest, Romania
  6. 1718 AD Expulsion order against the Jews of Temesvar · Timișoara (Temesvar), Romania
  7. 1727–1739 AD Jews of Craiova barred from displaying goods at fairs · Craiova, Romania
  8. 1739 AD Fair restrictions on Craiova Jews lifted · Craiova, Romania
  9. 1764–1766 AD Second synagogue demolished by Alexander Ghika · Bucharest, Romania
  10. 1769–1774 AD Janizary violence and plunder against Jews · Bucharest, Romania
  11. 1769–1774 AD Massacres of Jews during the Russo-Turkish War · Romania
  12. 1770 AD Populace attacks Jews of Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  13. 1774–1782 AD Synagogue destroyed by Alexander Ypsilanti · Bucharest, Romania
  14. 1776 AD Jews of Temesvar compelled to live in citadel ghetto · Timișoara (Temesvar), Romania
  15. 1776 AD Judenordnung restricting Jews of the Banat and Timisoara · Timișoara, Romania
  16. 1776 AD Maria Theresa's restrictions on the Jews of Temesvar · Timișoara (Temesvar), Romania
  17. 1781 AD Imperial decree restricting Jewish settlement to Carlsburg · Transylvania, Romania
  18. 1786–1789 AD Jewish artisans forced to work for the Turks · Bucharest, Romania
  19. 1787 AD Janizaries and Russians butcher Jews · Romania
  20. 1793–1796 AD Jews forbidden to sell cosmetics · Bucharest, Romania
  21. 1793–1796 AD Moruzi closes synagogue and punishes Jewish defenders · Bucharest, Romania
  22. 1797 AD Galatz ritual-murder accusation and mob attack · Galați, Romania

19th century

  1. 1801 AD Massacre of 1801 in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  2. 1804 AD Ritual murder accusation in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  3. 1806 AD December 1806 massacre and baptism ultimatum · Bucharest, Romania
  4. 1806 AD Massacres of Jews during Russian invasion · Romania
  5. 1806–1812 AD Ban on working on Christian festivals · Bucharest, Romania
  6. 1812 AD Kalmuck terror against Jews in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  7. 1812–1818 AD Caradja revives restrictions on Jews · Bucharest, Romania
  8. 1812–1818 AD Jews blamed for spreading the plague · Bucharest, Romania
  9. 1815 AD Oppressive plague regulations against Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  10. 1821 AD Hetærists pillage the Jewish quarter · Bucharest, Romania
  11. 1821–1822 AD Jews slain and plundered during the Greek Hetæria uprising · Iași, Romania
  12. 1822 AD Turkish soldiers attack Jews and others in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  13. 1822–1828 AD Ban on Jews making or selling candles and bread to Christians · Iași (Jassy), Romania
  14. c. 1822–1828 AD Jews driven out of Bucharest as plague carriers · Bucharest, Romania
  15. 1827 AD Decree barring Moldavian Jews from settling in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  16. 1832 AD Moldavian Organic Law bars Jews from owning village property · Moldavia, Romania
  17. 1832 AD New constitution curtails Jewish community autonomy · Bucharest, Romania
  18. 1834 AD Ritual murder accusation against Jews in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  19. 1834–1848 AD Residence and occupation restrictions on Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  20. 1834–1848 AD Vagabondage decree used to despoil the Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  21. 1835 AD Persecution of Mihăileni Jews by Prince Michel Sturza · Mihăileni, Romania
  22. 1836 AD Host desecration accusation at Bislad · Romania
  23. 1839–1843 AD Moldavian laws allow expulsion of "useless" Jews as vagrants · Moldavia, Romania
  24. 1848 AD Residence restrictions on Jews theoretically ended · Transylvania, Romania
  25. 1849–1856 AD Jewish children admitted to public schools · Iași, Romania
  26. 1856 AD Treaty of Paris proclaims religious and civil liberties in the principalities · Moldavia, Romania
  27. 1862 AD Jewish autonomous organization stripped of official status in Romania · Romania
  28. 1864 AD Arrest and expulsion of Rabbi Malbim · Bucharest, Romania
  29. 1864 AD Native Jews granted suffrage in local councils · Romania
  30. 1866 AD Anti-Jewish agitation and persecution in Bacau · Bacău, Romania
  31. c. 1866 AD Bratianu expels Jews from rural areas and the country · Romania
  32. 1866 AD Bucharest synagogue demolished and Jews attacked · Bucharest, Romania
  33. 1866 AD Constitution restricts citizenship to Christians · Romania
  34. c. 1866 AD Rise of anti-Semitism and loss of official recognition of communities · Bucharest, Romania
  35. 1867 AD Expulsion of Jews from Romanian villages · Romania
  36. c. 1878 AD Occupational laws and expulsion from rural areas after Berlin treaty · Romania
  37. 1878–1900 AD Romania evades Berlin treaty citizenship obligations · Romania
  38. 1880 AD Expulsion of Jews from villages near Moinești · Moinești, Romania
  39. 1880 AD Restrictive measures against Rumanian Jews · Romania
  40. c. 1881 AD Expulsions of Jews as "objectionable aliens" · Romania
  41. 1883 AD Anti-Jewish riots and synagogue arson in Craiova · Craiova, Romania
  42. 1885 AD Expulsion of Fraternitatea editors from Romania · Romania
  43. 1885 AD Expulsion of Jewish emancipation leaders from Romania · Romania
  44. 1893 AD Jewish children barred from public schools · Romania
  45. 1893 AD Law practically excluding Jewish children from public schools · Bucharest, Romania
  46. 1897 AD December 1897 riot in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  47. 1898 AD Jews excluded from secondary schools and universities · Romania
  48. 1900 AD Rumanian persecutions of Jews begin · Romania

20th century

  1. 1902 AD Artisan Bill bars Jews from crafts and trades · Romania
  2. 1904 AD Rumania abolishes the Oath More Judaico · Romania
  3. c. 1907 AD Expulsion of Jews from Moldavian villages · Dorohoi, Romania
  4. 1907 AD Pillaging of Jewish property in the 1907 peasant revolt · Moldavia, Romania
  5. 1918 AD Bratianu decree on individual naturalization of Jews · Romania
  6. 1918 AD Romanian naturalization act of August 1918 · Romania
  7. 1919 AD Emancipation of Romanian Jews · Moinești, Romania
  8. 1919 AD Romanian decree allowing Jews to obtain citizenship · Romania
  9. 1922 AD Student numerus clausus riots against Jews · Romania
  10. 1922 AD Student violence enforces numerus clausus against Jews in Romania · Romania
  11. 1923 AD Naturalization of Jews written into Romanian constitution · Romania
  12. 1923 AD Procedural restrictions on Jews in the new provinces · Romania
  13. 1927 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Oradea · Oradea, Romania
  14. 1927 AD Pogrom in Oradea Mare · Oradea, Romania
  15. 1927 AD Riots spread to Cluj, Huedin, Targu-Ocna and Jassy · Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  16. 1930 AD Cancellation of Jewish Party's election victory in Mihaileni · Mihăileni, Romania
  17. 1933 AD Economic boycott and social ostracism by Transylvanian Fascist organizations · Transylvania, Romania
  18. 1933 AD Special entrance examinations to fail Jewish candidates in Romania · Romania
  19. 1934 AD Law for Employment of Romanian Workers in Private Firms · Romania
  20. 1935–1936 AD University numerus clausus and violence against Jewish students · Romania
  21. 1936 AD Iron Guard bomb attack on Jewish theater audience · Timișoara, Romania
  22. c. 1936 AD Romanian state subvention for Jewish religious needs cut · Romania
  23. c. 1939 AD Jews expelled from wood commerce and industry · Romania
  24. c. 1939–1945 AD Expulsion of the Jews of Moinesti to Botosani · Moinești, Romania
  25. 1940 AD 1940 Galați massacre · Galați, Romania
  26. 1940 AD Cancellation of Romanian citizenship for Jews · Romania
  27. 1940 AD Dorohoi pogrom · Romania
  28. 1940 AD Economic restrictions and confiscations against Jews · Timișoara, Romania
  29. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jewish students and workers under Antonescu · Romania
  30. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jews from northern Transylvania · Northern Transylvania, Romania
  31. 1940 AD Expulsion of Jews from villages and towns in southern Transylvania · Transylvania, Romania
  32. 1940 AD Hungarian restrictions on Jews in northern Transylvania · Northern Transylvania, Romania
  33. 1940 AD Murder of 52 Jews in Dorohoi · Dorohoi, Romania
  34. 1940 AD Persecution of Jews in southern Transylvania · Transylvania, Romania
  35. 1940–1941 AD Iron Guard antisemitic terror and seizure of Jewish businesses · Romania
  36. c. 1940–1941 AD Repression and confiscation of Jewish property under Antonescu · Bacău, Romania
  37. 1941 AD Bucharest pogrom · Bucharest, Romania
  38. c. 1941 AD Deportation of Mihaileni Jews to Transnistria · Mihăileni, Romania
  39. c. 1941 AD Evacuation of Jews from villages and towns in Romania · Romania
  40. c. 1941 AD Forced labor and special taxes on Jews of Old Romania · Romania
  41. 1941 AD Iași pogrom · Iași, Romania
  42. 1941 AD Iron Guard massacre of Jews in Iasi · Iași, Romania
  43. 1941 AD Iron Guard rebellion violence against Bucharest Jews · Bucharest, Romania
  44. 1941 AD Jewish men sent to forced labor · Timișoara, Romania
  45. 1941 AD Jews of district driven from homes to Bacau and men sent to forced labor · Bacău, Romania
  46. 1941 AD Legionnaires' rebellion. · Bucharest, Romania
  47. 1941 AD Massacres of Jews in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dorohoi · Bessarabia, Moldova and elsewhere
  48. 1941 AD Romanian soldiers and police kill Jews in Iasi · Iași, Romania
  49. 1941 AD Yellow badge order for Jews re-endorsed in Romania · Romania
  50. 1941–1943 AD The Holocaust in Romania · Romania and elsewhere
  51. 1942 AD Conscription of Jews into forced labor battalions in northern Transylvania · Northern Transylvania, Romania
  52. c. 1942 AD Deportation of 7,000 Jews to Transnistria in 1942 · Chernivtsi (Chernovtsy), Ukraine and elsewhere
  53. 1943 AD 4 billion lei levy imposed on Romanian Jewry · Romania
  54. 1943 AD After initial agreement to deport Jews from the Romanian provinces, Wallachia… · Romania
  55. 1943 AD Antonescu orders that no Transnistria deportee may return · Romania
  56. c. 1943 AD Filderman deported to Transnistria · Romania and elsewhere
  57. 1943 AD Renewed economic pressure and forced labor against Jews · Romania
  58. 1943 AD Return of certain categories of deportees authorized · Romania
  59. 1944 AD Deportation of the Jews of Oradea to Auschwitz · Oradea, Romania
  60. 1944 AD Ghettoization and deportation of Jews from northern Transylvania · Northern Transylvania, Romania
  61. 1944 AD Ghettoization of North Transylvanian Jews · Northern Transylvania, Romania
  62. 1944 AD Ghettoization of the Jews of Oradea · Oradea, Romania
  63. 1944 AD Hungarian troops massacre Jews in south Transylvania · Transylvania, Romania
  64. 1944 AD Jews forced to dig defense trenches · Bacău, Romania
  65. 1944 AD Sărmașu massacre · Sărmașu, Romania
  66. 1945 AD Regulations on Nationalities declare equality of minorities · Romania
  67. 1948 AD Ban on Zionist funds in Romania · Romania
  68. 1948 AD Nationalization of Jewish schools in Romania · Romania
  69. 1948 AD Violent attack on Zionist Organization branch in Bucharest · Bucharest, Romania
  70. 1948–1949 AD Liquidation of Zionist training farms in Romania · Romania
  71. 1949 AD Order to liquidate the Zionist movement in Romania · Romania
  72. 1949–1950 AD Government halts Joint Distribution Committee activity in Romania · Romania

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