1999 in Romania

Incumbents

• President – Emil Constantinescu
• Prime Minister – Radu Vasile

  Events

January

• 4 January – Jiu Valley miners' strike. Nearly 15,000 miners from National Coal Company in Jiu Valley start a strike to get higher salaries and renunciation to the program of closure of unprofitable mines, threatening to come to Bucharest if their demands are not met. The government refuses to negotiate.
• 15 January – The fifth mineriad: Jiu Valley miners' strike is declared illegal.
• 18 January – Over 10,000 miners begin a march to Bucharest.
• 20 January – The fifth mineriad: President convokes the Parliament in extraordinary session. The government is ready to negotiate, as long as the miners stop. They are ready to talk, but only with the Prime Minister. At around 18 o'clock, those 10,000 miners reach Horezu where they stay overnight.
• 21 January – The fifth mineriad: In Bucharest takes place a joint press conference of Group for Social Dialogue, Civic Alliance, Association of Former Political Prisoners in Romania, League for the Defence of Human Rights and Association of Victims of the Mineriads, during which is publicized the decision to organize a protest march against the miners manifestations, on 22 January. In Timișoara, over a thousand representatives of civil society organize a protest rally. At 15 o'clock, miners force the Costești barrage, which after an hour break it.
• 22 January – The fifth mineriad – "Peace of Cozia": Start negotiations between the commission headed by Prime Minister Radu Vasile and miners' leader Miron Cozma. At 18:30, negotiations end, Prime Minister saying: No part won, instead the country won.
• 23 January – The fifth mineriad – Miron Cozma and Romeo Beja, miners' leaders, convince the Prime Minister Radu Vasile to reopen Dâlja and Bărbăteni mines and to promise a salary increase for miners by 30-35%. Miners return in Jiu Valley.

  February

• 17 February – The sixth mineriad: Take place in Stoenești, Olt County, violent clashes between police and groups of miners moving toward the capital. Unofficial sources indicate 15 deaths, the highest death toll during all six mineriads.

  October

• 1 October – After a resounding corruption scandal that revealed the robbing of the bank, the government liquidates the bankrupt Bancorex.
• 21 October – Appears in Bucharest the first issue of Playboy magazine.
• 25 October – The first heart transplant in Romania is performed at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital by a team of doctors led by Prof. Dr. Șerban Brădișteanu.

  Deaths

• 18 January – Marian Papahagi, literary critic, essayist and translator
• 4 March – Vlad Mușatescu, writer and humorist
• 22 March – Valeriu Cristea, literary critic
• 20 June – Iulian Mihu, director
• 5 July – Liviu Petrescu, critic, literary historian and essayist
• 12 July – Mircea Nedelciu, writer
• 14 July
• * Cornel Regman, literary critic and historian
• * Maria Banuș, poet, translator and essayist
• 16 July – Dan Sava, member of the humorous group Vacanța Mare
• 1 August – Silvia Dumitrescu-Timică, theater and film actress
• 6 August – Mihai C. Băcescu, zoologist, oceanologist, museologist and member of the Romanian Academy
• 19 August – Mircea Sântimbreanu, writer of children's literature, publicist, screenwriter and film producer
• 5 November – Radu G. Țeposu, literary critic, essayist and literary chronicler
• 21 November – Ioan Chirilă, sports journalist and writer
• 25 November – Alexandru Ciorănescu, one of the most important historians and geographers of the Canary Islands
• 20 December – Valeriu Munteanu, linguist and translator