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Union of the Principalities
Moldavia (5 January) and Wallachia (24 January) elected Alexandru Ioan Cuza as their common prince, uniting the two principalities and founding the modern Romanian state.
Era: Union, independence and the Kingdom of Romania
Sources: 24 January 1859: A Glimpse on the Union of Romanian Principalities · AGERPRES / ACT Media
Formation in the 1850s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1850s, tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.