...Bucharest, bans the use of Greek in…

...Bucharest, bans the use of Greek in churches and monasteries, and secularizes monastic property.

Cuza also signs an agrarian law that eliminates serfdom, tithes, and forced labor and allows peasants to acquire land.

Unfortunately, the new holdings are often too expensive for the peasants and too small to provide self-sufficiency; consequently, the peasantry's lot deteriorates.

Cuza's reforms alienate both the boyars and Romania's mostly Greek clergy, and government corruption and the prince's own moral turpitude soon erode his popularity.