1924 in Romania

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See also:	Other events of 1924 History of Romania Timeline of Romanian history Years 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.

• King: Ferdinand.^[1]
• Prime Minister: Ion I. C. Brătianu.^[2]

• 1 January – The Aeronautica Regală Română (ARR), or Romanian Royal Aeronautics, is founded.^[3]
• 29 March – Rioters in Bucharest target Jews in anti-semitic attacks that continued through the night into the next morning.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 11 April – The Romanian government bans the Romanian Communist Party.^[7]
• 16 April – Romania announces it has settled its debts with Italy.^[8]
• 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.^[9]
• 29 May – An ammunition depot explodes in Cotroceni, causing $3 million damage to the Royal Palace and other buildings.^[10]
• 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 .^[11]
• 10 August – Romania is one of the nine countries represented at the first First International Silent Games held in Paris.^[12]
• 12 October – The declaration of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic heightens tensions between Moldovans and Romanians.^[13]
• 25 November – The Bucharest government vote one million lei to construct a crematorium.^[14]
• 23 December – Nicolae Bretan's opera Golem is first performed at the Hungarian Theater in Cluj.^[15]

• 2 January – Victor Mercea, nuclear physicist (died 1987).
• 15 February – Kemal Karpat, historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (died 2019).
• 20 February – Eugen Barbu, novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1993).^[16]
• 8 March – Alma Redlinger, painter and illustrator (died 2017).^[17]
• 15 June – Hédi Szmuk, Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist, survivor of Nazi concentration camps (died 2022).^[18]
• 15 August – Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, poet (died 1942).^[19]
• 26 August – Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, mathematician (died 2009).^[20]
• 8 September – Solange d'Herbez de la Tour, architect.^[21]
• 5 October – Marianne Fillenz, neuroscientist (died 2012).^[22]
• 27 November – Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru, pen name Nina Cassian, children's author, journalist, poet, translator and film critic (died 2014).^[23]
• 17 December – Alexander Bickel, legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution (died 1974).^[24]

• 15 April – Eduard Caudella, composer (born 1841).^[25]
• 19 October – Iancu Flondor, politician who advocated the Union of Bukovina with Romania (born 1865).^[26]
• 22 October – Wilhelm Knechtel, botanist and numismatist (born 1837).^[27]