1937 in Romania
# 1937 in Romania

Events from the year 1937 in Romania. The year saw the installation of the anti-semitic 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).
