1951 in Romania

Events from the year 1951 in Romania. The year saw the Bărăgan deportations.



Incumbents

 * President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic: Constantin Ion Parhon.
 * Prime Minister: Petru Groza.
 * General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

Events

 * 30 March – The Securitate is reorganised under the name Direcția Generală a Securității Statului (DGSS).
 * 18 June – The Bărăgan deportations, during which 44,000 residents from Caraș-Severin, Mehedinți, and Timiș counties are deported. Of those, 2,000 die.
 * 20 October – The Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum is opened as a public gallery.
 * 15 December – The first Five-Year Plan (1951–1955) is adopted by the Great National Assembly; the main objective of the plan is the construction of the Danube–Black Sea Canal.

Popular culture

 * In Our Village (În sat la noi), directed by Jean Georgescu and Victor Iliu.
 * Life Triumphs (Viața învinge), directed by Dinu Negreanu.

Births

 * 14 January – Fița Rafira, middle-distance runner, medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
 * 22 July – Dan Ilie Ciobotea, the future Patriarch Daniel of Romania.
 * 1 September – Nicu Ceaușescu, physicist and communist politician (died 1996).
 * 4 November – Traian Băsescu, politician and former President of Romania.

Deaths

 * 14 January – Tancred Constantinescu, engineer and politician, died at Sighet Prison (born 1878).
 * 15 March – Gheorghe Tașcă, economist, lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician; a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, he died at Sighet Prison (born 1875).
 * 19 April – Ion Manolescu-Strunga, politician, died at Sighet Prison (born 1889).
 * 22 May – Istrate Micescu, lawyer, died in Aiud Prison (born 1881).
 * 18 July – Toma Arnăuțoiu, officer who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters from 1949 to 1958, executed at Jilava Prison (born 1921).
 * 10 December – Anton Durcovici, bishop of Iași in the Roman Catholic Church and martyr, he died at Sighet Prison and was beatified on 17 May 2014 (born 1888).