2008 in Romania explained

Events from the year 2008 in Romania.

Incumbents

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 22 December); Emil Boc (from 22 December)^[2] ^[3]

April 2 – A NATO summit takes place at the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest.^[4]
May - Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania story collection is published.^[5]
June 1 – 2008 Romanian local elections, with a runoff for mayors on June 15.
November 15 – Petrila Mine disaster: Twelve miners die after two explosions at a mine in Petrila, one of six coal mining cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County.^[6]
November 24 – Another miner dies at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, raising the death toll from the Petrila Mine disaster to 13.
November 30 – 2008 Romanian legislative election.

January 3 – Petru Dugulescu, pastor, politician (born 1945)
January 22 – Ștefan Niculescu, composer (born 1927)
February 18 – Mihaela Mitrache, actress (born 1955)
August 16 – Elena Leușteanu, Olympic gymnast (born 1935)
September 7 – Ilarion Ciobanu, actor (born 1931)
September 14 – Ștefan Iordache, actor (born 1941)
October 8 – George Emil Palade, cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

Web site: Romania: Basescu Wins Presidential Vote, Vows To Fight Corruption. Radio Free Europe. Eugen Tomiuc. 13 December 2004. 5 April 2022.
News: Boc Government OK'd by Parliament, with 324 votes in favor and 115 against . Financiarul . 2008-12-23.
News: Romania centre-left gov't sworn in to tackle crisis. Radu Marinas and Luiza Ilie . 2008-12-22. Forbes. 2008-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20090122125940/http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/12/22/afx5852110.html. 2009-01-22.
http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2007/04-april/e0427a.html Bucharest to host 2008 NATO Summit
Book: Paget , John . Hungary and Transylvania; with remarks on their condition, social, political, and economical. London. 1853. 15 February 2011.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6114413.html Chron