Events from the year 1937 in Romania. The year saw the installation of the antisemitic government of Octavian Goga.
Incumbents King: Carol II. Prime Minister: Gheorghe Tătărescu (until 29 December). Octavian Goga (after 29 December).
Events
13 February – The funerals of Ion Moța and Vasile Marin take place in Bucharest. 11 March – Nicolae Bălan's report to the Romanian Orthodox Church leads to Freemasonry in Romania dissolving itself. 20 March – The government affirms its obligations to the League of Nations and Little Entente in preference to closer ties to Nazi Germany. 26 June – Carol II begins a four-day visit to Poland cementing the Polish–Romanian alliance. 7 December –Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern and cousin to the king, states to the German ambassador Wilhelm Fabricius that Romania sees no alliance between France and the Little Entente. 20 December – A general election is held for the Chamber of Deputies. The National Liberal Party remains the largest party in government but the King requests Octavian Goga to form a government. 29 December – Goga forms a new government which pursues anti-semitic policies, issuing in the first short-lived period of fascism in the kingdom. 30 December – The final round of the Senate election is held, the last elections before women's suffrage is introduced.
Births 19 March – Eduard Prugovečki, physicist and mathematician (died 2003). 10 May – Tamara Hareven, social historian (died 2002). 23 May – Irina Odagescu, composer. 22 September – Nicolae Popescu, mathematician (died 2010). 16 November – Maria Diaconescu, javelin thrower.
Deaths 7 May – George Topîrceanu, war poet and satirist (born 1886). 12 August – Alexandru Stănescu (pen name Alexandru Sahia), journalist and short story writer (born 1908). 17 December – Dimitrie Călugăreanu, naturalist, physiologist and physician (born 1868).
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