First December – the national day of Romania

Since 1990, the Romania has been celebrating the first December as their national day, the day of the Great Union. For the first time, first December was declared a national public holyday on the 31st July 1990, for then, in 2003, to keep its status in The Constitution, article 12, al. 2.

The history of the day of 1st December
During the World War First, for two years, Romania keeps it neutrality. But in 1916, King Ferdinand I decides to join the fights, with the Allies. On the 27th August 1918, three Romanian armies started the attack, crossing the Southern Carpathians, entering in Transylvania.

On the 1st December 1918 Romania was celebrating the Birth of The Great Romania. Keeping a chronologic line, on the 27th march 1918, Basarabia (The Republic of Moldavia) proclaimed the union with Romania, after voting. On the 14th October, the attorneys of the population from Bucovina voted for the union with the Country and on the 15th November it was done.

On the 1st December 1918, The National Gathering from Alba Iulia, composed by 1228 members and supported by more than 100.000 persons gathered to the event from all the corners of Ardeal and Banat, adopted a resolution that blesses the union of al Romanians from Transylvania and Banat (lied between the rivers called Mures, Tisa and Danube) with Romania.

The Law of the Union was ratified by the Decree – Law No. 3631, on the 11th December 1918, promulgated by the king Ferdinand I and voted in unanimity by the Gathering of the deputy in a meeting, on the 29th December 1919.

The Resolution of the Union was read by Vasile Goldis, on the 1st December 1918: “The national Gathering of all the Romanian from Transylvania, Banat and The country of the Hungarians, gathered through their chosen attorneys at Alba Iulia on the 18th November \ 1st December 1918, decrees the union of those Romanians and of all their lands with Romania. The Gathering proclaims especially the inalienable right of the Romanian Nation at all the land of Banat, lied between the rivers Mures, Tisa and Danube. ”