The Bucharest police look on as an…
1871 CE
The Bucharest police look on as an angry crowd attacks a hall in which Germans have gathered in March 1871 to celebrate Prussian war victories.
A day later, Carol hands his abdication to the regents who had installed him.
They persuade the prince to remain on the throne, however, and muster conservative forces to support him.
The Romanian state had concluded an agreement with another German consortium, known as the "Offenheim Consortium", on May 1868 for the construction of several shorter railways in the region of Moldavia.
The lines, which had a total length of two hundred and twenty-four kilometers, were to run from Roman to Itcani, from Pascani to Iasi, and from Verseti to Botosani.
The lines have been progressively opened from December 1869 and will be completed in November 1871, but scandal had erupted when a Prussian-Jewish contractor bungled construction of key Romanian rail links and defaulted on interest payments to Prussian bondholders; the Liberals had denounced Carol for pledging to back the bonds.
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