1941

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1941 (MCMXLI) was an ordinary year of the Gregorian calendar, which began on Wednesday.

Events

January
18 January: In the territory of Transylvania of North-East, occupied by Hungary following the Vienna Dictate, it was ordered by order that in all acts of civil status, the Romanian name be written with Hungarian graphics.
January 19: World War II: British troops are attacking Italian-controlled Eritrea.
21-23 January: The Legionnaire Rebellion takes place. General Ion Antonescu, the head of the Romanian state, gives a coup d'état to remove from power the Legionary Movement with which he was in conflict, meaning the end of the National Legion State, declared on 14 September 1940.
January 21: World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk in Libya.
22 January: World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians.

February
February 10: Britain breaks diplomatic relations with Romania and extends blockade measures.
February 17: World War II: Polish Father Maximilian Kolbe is arrested by the Germans for his anti-Nazi writings and help with Jewish refugees. Kolbe will give his life in exchange for another prisoner at Auschwitz.
18 February: In order to ensure the order troubled by the legionary rebellion in January 1941, Ion Antonescu initiated a series of decrees, including the Decree of 18 February 1941, whereby the country's most important institutions and businesses were militarised, whether owned by state or private.
February 21: C.I.C. Brătianu, President of the National Liberal Party, recommends, through a letter, Antonescu not to engage Romania on the side of Germany.
21 February: Ordinance of the Hungarian Government no. 1440 / 1941, cancels in Transylvania de Nistra, occupied by Hungary by the Vienna Dictate, the Romanian agrarian reform of 1921. At the same time, all purchases made by Romanians between 1918 and 1940 were cancelled.

March
March 2-5: Following the Legionary Rebellion on 21-23 January 1941, Antonescu organizes the first plebiscite on domestic policy. 90% of voters ruled for the policy of the Antonescu government and against the legionnaires.
March 11: World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America, promulgates the Loan and Rent Act.
March 17: In Washington, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Roosevelt.

17 March: British Labour Minister Ernest Bevin calls on British women to fill vital jobs.

April
1 April: The White Fountain massacre takes place, where Soviet troops kill between 2000 and 4000 Romanians trying to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania.
6 April: World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
April 13: World War II: L