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Bucharest Chronology
- 1368:
- 1459, September 20: the name of the city appears for the first time in the history of
- 1702: Constantin Brâncoveanu builds
- 1704:
- 1798:
- 1808: Manus’s
- 1852: takes place the inaugural show of the National Theatre.
- 1854:
- 1857 May:
- 1860: the first streets are paved with stone.
- 1862:
- 1869: the first railway station in
- 1869: the
- 1871: the first tramway with horses (called “tramcar” in Romanian) from Nord Railway to the
- 1882: the first electrical illumination system, at first at the
- 1888: the Romania Athenaeum is inaugurated and the building becomes an insignia of
- 1894: the first electric tramway from
- 1906:
- 1909: the first electric automobile is brought to
- 1909: Volta Cinema is being inaugurated.
- 1921:
- 1925: the first bus line is inaugurated.
- 1926 February:
- 1928: the Radio broadcasting studio begins to have regular transmissions.
- 1931: the Society for Airline Transport named “SARTA is founded.
- 1933: is inaugurated the actual calling “
- 1936: the
- 1938, June 8: in the National Park Carol II (presently Herăstrău) opens its gates the Television Pavilion. The transmissions start at 19 o’clock and each visitor can transmit its own voice and image to a screen, after paying the admission cost.
- 1950: the first cinema studio from Buftea begins its activity and it is considered at the time the biggest and the most modern studio from the South-Est Europe.
- 1951: Dinamo Stadium with a capacity of 20.000 places is inaugurated.
- 1955: in the Vulcan factories it is constructed the first Romanian bus.
- 1956, December 31: on the New Years Eve is broadcasted the first black and white transmission.
- 1961: Globus Circus begins its activity.
- 1965: Nicolae Ceausescu becomes the Communist Party leader after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.
- 1970: the Intercontinental Hotel (the highest building in
- 1977 March: a very strong earthquake kills around 1,500 people in
- 1979: the first metro line from Semanatoarea factories to Timpuri Noi is being inaugurated.
- 1985-86: the austerity program leads to food shortages and widespread power cuts.
- 1989 December:
- 1991: miners on strike come to
- 1994:
- 1999 January: security forces prevent 10,000 miners striking over pay to enter in
- 2000: Traian Băsescu is elected the General Mayor of
- 2004: Traian Băsescu is reelected mayor of
- 2005: Adriean Videanu is elected the General Mayor of
- Presently, Bucharest is the first city in
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