Union of Bukovina with Romania

Timeline of events

1918

• 22 October - Constantin Isopescu-Grecul, a Bukovinian Romanian deputy in the Austrian Imperial Council, warns the authorities in Vienna that if they do not force Budapest to release Transylvania and other Romanian-inhabited areas from Hungary, then the Romanian subjects of the empire would have to look for outside help.
• 25 October - The Ukrainian National Committee for Bukovina is formed.
• 27 October - The Romanian National Council is formed under the leadership of Iancu Flondor.
• 3 November - The Ukrainian National Rada takes control of the state apparatus in Czernowitz and the surrounding area.
• 4 November - Aurel Onciul, a Romanian Bukovinian politician, concludes an agreement with the Ukrainian National Committee providing for the division of Bukovina along ethnic lines and joint Romanian-Ukrainian control over Czernowitz.
• 6 November - The Ukrainian National Committee occupies all Government buildings in Czernowitz and Omelian Popowicz is proclaimed President of "Ukrainian Bukovina".
• 7 November - Iancu Flondor appeals to the Romanian Government to occupy the entire land of Bukovina.
• 9/10 November - Romania re-declares war on the Central Powers.
• 10 November - The Ukrainian National Committee together with its military supporters retreat from Czernowitz.
• 11 November - Czernowitz is seized by the Romanian Army.
• 12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency.
• 28 November - The Romanian National Council, together with Polish and German representatives, convokes the General Congress of Bukovina which requests the union of Bukovina with Romania.
• 19 December - The Romanian Government issues a decree formalizing Bukovina's annexation.

  1919

• 10 September - The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed, recognizing Romanian sovereignty over Bukovina.

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• 10 August - The Treaty of Sèvres established the Romanian-Polish boundary.

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