2008 in Romania

Events from the year 2008 in Romania.

Incumbents

President: Traian Băsescu{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1056376.html|title=Romania: Basescu Wins Presidential Vote, Vows To Fight Corruption|work=Radio Free Europe|author=Eugen Tomiuc|date=13 December 2004|accessdate=5 April 2022}}
Prime Minister: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 22 December); Emil Boc (from 22 December){{Cite news|url=http://www.financiarul.ro/2008/12/22/boc-government-okd-by-parliament-with-324-votes-in-favor-and-115-against/|title=Boc Government OK'd by Parliament, with 324 votes in favor and 115 against |publisher=Financiarul |access-date=2008-12-23}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/12/22/afx5852110.html|title=Romania centre-left gov't sworn in to tackle crisis|author=Radu Marinas and Luiza Ilie |date=2008-12-22|work=Forbes|access-date=2008-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122125940/http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/12/22/afx5852110.html|archive-date=2009-01-22}}

April 2 – A NATO summit takes place at the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest.[http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2007/04-april/e0427a.html Bucharest to host 2008 NATO Summit], NATO, 27 April 2007
May - Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania story collection is published.{{Cite book

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| title = Hungary and Transylvania; with remarks on their condition, social, political, and economical

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June 1 – 2008 Romanian local elections, with a runoff for mayors on June 15.{{Cite web |title=Early Parliamentary Elections, 1 June 2008 |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/fyrom/57980 |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=www.osce.org |language=en}}
November 15 – Petrila Mine disaster: Twelve miners die after two explosions at a mine in Petrila, one of six coal mining cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County.[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6114413.html Chron] (English)
November 24 – Another miner dies at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, raising the death toll from the Petrila Mine disaster to 13.
November 30 – 2008 Romanian legislative election.{{Cite journal |last=Maxfield |first=Ed |date=2009-11-01 |title=Election Report, Romania's Parliamentary Elections, 30 November 2008 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00344890903257706 |journal=Journal of Representative Democracy |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=485-493 |doi=10.1080/00344890903257706 |issn=0034-4893}}

January 3 – Petru Dugulescu, pastor, politician (born 1945)
January 22 – Ștefan Niculescu, composer (born 1927)
February 18 – Mihaela Mitrache, actress (born 1955){{Cite web |title=A murit actrita Mihaela Mitrache |url=https://ziare.com/cultura/cultura-generala/a-murit-actrita-mihaela-mitrache-244137 |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=Ziare.com |language=ro}}
August 16 – Elena Leușteanu, Olympic gymnast (born 1935)
September 7 – Ilarion Ciobanu, actor (born 1931)
September 14 – Ștefan Iordache, actor (born 1941)
October 8 – George Emil Palade, cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912){{Cite web |date=2008-10-17 |title=In Memoriam: Nobel Prize Winner George Palade, Established Cell Biology at Yale {{!}} Yale News |url=https://news.yale.edu/2008/10/17/memoriam-nobel-prize-winner-george-palade-established-cell-biology-yale |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=news.yale.edu |language=en}}