Timeline of Giurtelecu Şimleului history

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  • A storm destroyed the community house roof
  • Orthodox Church is built
  • population: 1,149 inhabitants
  • Alexander Ratiu was arrested
  • a new public school
  • Ioan Taloş is elected as deputy
  • 1,216 inhabitants
  • began archaeological researches
  • 1,190 inhabitants
  • the Greek Catholic parochial house was built
  • the stone Greek Catholic church was built
  • priest Gheorghe finished the Penticostar
  • 231 inhabitants
  • first official census: 72 inhabitants
  • priest Îndreiu finished the
  • the first mention of a priest
  • seven households: aprox. 50 inhabitants
  • some slavonic religious manusripts stolen
  • earliest mention in recorded history
  • Stone Age - the oldest traces of human presence in the area
  • Bronze Age - settlement, Wietenberg Culture and Coţofeni Culture
  • Neolithic - settlement, Tiszapolgár Culture
  • Iron Age - La Tène Culture
  • 1st century BC - a Dacian fortress with military functions in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 106 AD to 271 AD - Giurtelecu Şimleului was a few kilometers outside of Roman Empire border (Limes).
  • 1241 - The region was devastated during the Mongol invasion
  • 1259 - Giurtelecu Şimleului's earliest mention in recorded history
  • 1470 - some slavonic religious manusripts stolen from priest Ilie were found in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1529 - aprox. 50 inhabitants in Giurtelecu Şimleului; there were seven households
  • 1594 - the first mention of a priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1624, June - priest Îndreiu from Giurtelecu Şimleului, one of oldest hand bookbinders of Transylvania, finished a religious book called "Tetraevanghel"
  • 1687, October - Giurtelecu Şimleului was added to the expanding territories of Habsburg Monarchy
  • 1715 - first official census in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1771 - priest Gheorghe from Giurtelecu Şimleului finished a "Penticostar" in 1771
  • 1810 - the Greek-Catholic Vicarage was set up in Şimleu Silvaniei, which becomes a major centre of the Romanian intellectuals; also, after 1817 it hosts a Romanian Gymnasium
  • 1819 - the stone Greek Catholic church "St. Arhangheli" was built
  • 1830 – a new school was built in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1848, March 19 - the priest of Giurtelecu Şimleului Ioan Lobonţiu, who chaired at Giurtelecu Şimleului the first meeting of the Revolution of 1848 in Transylvania, announced the emancipation of serfs. Ioan Lobonţiu advocates spreading wealth to poorer people in Giurtelecu Şimleului, where agriculture hasn't changed since medieval times.
  • 1854 - the parochial house of Greek Catholic church was built
  • 1867 - Giurtelecu Şimleului returned to the Kingdom of Hungary within the newly established Austria-Hungary
  • 1869 – the inhabitants of Giurtelecu Şimleului express the disagreement with the conversion of the confessional school in a public school, according to Law XXXVIII/1868 of Education Minister József Eötvös
  • 1876 - Giurtelecu Şimleului became part of the newly established Szilágy County, Szilágysomlyó District
  • 1876 - Şimleu Silvaniei synagogue was built; was the main cultural centre for Giurtelecu Şimleului Jews and in 2005 it became the centerpiece of the first fully functional Holocaust memorial museum in Romania
  • 19th century - began archaeological researches in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1911/1912, winter - Nicolae Munthiu (1880-1937), emploee of Astra, speaks at a conference in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1912-1914 - Danil Graur, teacher in Giurtelecu Şimleului, was one of the editors of Gazeta Învăţătorilor (1912-1914), newspaper of teachers from Transylvania printed in Şimleu Silvaniei
  • 1918, November - Ioan Taloş, priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului, is elected as deputy of the Electoral circle of the Şimleu in the National Assembly of all Romanians in Transylvania, Banat and the Hungarian Country (1,228 elected deputies). On December 1, the assembly decreed, by unanimous vote, the union of Transylvania with Romania
  • 1919 - Giurtelecu Şimleului became part of Romania
  • 1919, March 14 - the "Unirea" (the weekly newspaper of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic) published an article of the Greek Catholics from Giurtelecu Simleului: "Where are you, Romanian brothers? Why do not the Transylvanian Romanians escape us from these modern Huns?" (Unirea, Blaj, an XXIX, nr. 56, 14 martie 1919, p. 1.)
  • 1918-1919 - Daniel Graur, teacher in Giurtelecu Şimleului, was the inspector of the schools in Sălaj County.
  • 1920 - Census: 1,395 inhabitants at Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1927 - Romanian Government start building a new public school in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1934 - "Reuniunea Sf. Maria" Association had 45 members
  • 1940 to 1944 - Giurtelecu Şimleului (part of Northern Transylvania) was again part of Hungary during World War II
  • 1944, May - the Giurtelecu Şimleului's Jewish population was forced out of their homes into the Cehei ghetto
  • 1944, May-June - the deportations of the Jews from Cehei ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau were carried out in three transports between May 31 and June 6
  • 1946, November - As a volunteer of the National Peasants' Party, the priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului, Alexander Ratiu, worked at an electoral section at the Romanian general election, 1946
  • 1947, May - Alexander Ratiu, priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului, was arrested for his political activity against the Romanian Communist Party
  • 1949 - new archeological researches at Coasta lui Damian
  • 1950 - Giurtelecu Şimleului become part of Şimleu Rayon, Bihor region, set after the soviet style and mirroring the political goals of the moment; in 1952 Bihor region changed its name into Oradea Region and in 1960 it changes its name to Crişana Region
  • 1968 - part again of re-established Sălaj county
  • 1974 - start building of the Orthodox Church from Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 1998-1999 - systematic archaeological excavations at Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 2002, January 1 onwards - after this date (when Romanians got visa-free access to the Schengen states for 90 days), the migration towards European Union countries become a major economic and cultural phenomenon in Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • 2006, October - The public school of Giurtelecu Şimleului received from the Romanian Government a grant of € 30,000 (RON 100,000) for capital rehabilitation of the structure (Romania’s Official Monitor, October 19, 2006)
  • 2007, October 24 - The public school of Giurtelecu received from the Romanian Government a grant of € 3,000 (RON 10,000) for rehabilitation (Romania’s Official Monitor, October 26 2007)
  • 2008, August 26 - A storm destroyed the roof of the Giurtelecu Şimleului community house
  • 2008, September 14 - a homemade palinka producer from Giurtelecu Şimleului, Ioan Pârvu, win the 3rd prize at a palinka contest in Sălaj County

References

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