Timeline
| • 1812 – | Russia annexes Bessarabia. |
| • 1829 – | Treaty of Adrianople: Russia declares protectorate over Moldavia and Wallachia. |
| • 1834 – | Russians withdraw from Moldavia and Wallachia. |
| • 1846 – | Customs union of Moldavia and Wallachia. |
| • 1848 – | Failed revolutions in the principalities and in Transylvania. |
| Russia reoccupies Moldavia and Wallachia. | |
| • 1856 – | Partial Russian withdrawal, following the Crimean War. |
| • 1859 – | Alexandru Ioan Cuza unites Moldavia and Wallachia under his personal rule. |
| • 1861 – | ASTRA founded. |
| • 1862 – | Formal union of Moldavia and Wallachia to form principality of Romania. |
| • 1866 – | Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes head of state, and will later be crowned as king. |
| • 1867 – | Formation of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which assigns Transylvania to Hungary. |
| • 1877 – | Russo-Turkish War and Romanian War of Independence |
| • 1881 – | Kingdom of Romania established |
| • 1918 – | Transylvania, part of Banat, Bessarabia and Bukovina are united with Romania. |
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