1862, Feb. 5. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History

The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001.


1862, Feb. 5

The sultan allowed the fusion of the two legislatures (1861) (See 1861, Dec. 2) and the union of the Principalities was recognized, with the new name of Romania.	1

June 20

Barbu Catargiu, Conservative journalist and politician, was assassinated. Thereafter Cuza, whose sympathy was with the peasant class, appointed a Liberal ministry under Mikhail Kogalniceanu and proceeded to a policy of Liberal reform: new civil and criminal codes were based on the Napoleonic Code; a compulsory and free education system was established; two universities were founded in Jassy and Bucharest; and the Romanian Church was declared independent, which the patriarch of Constantinople recognized only in 1885.	2


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