January 1990 Mineriad

January 1990 Mineriad
Part of the mineriads
Date	28–29 January 1990

The January 1990 Mineriad was the first of the six mineriads that occurred in Romania. It started after a protest in the Victory Square of Bucharest was carried out on 28 January 1990 by Romanians of all ages, backgrounds and places of the country against the National Salvation Front (FSN) after it announced it would participate in the next Romanian election although it promised not doing so. The next day, 5,000 miners from the Jiu Valley came to Bucharest and demanded better working conditions. However, the miners and the anti-FSN protesters were repressed, causing dozens of injuries.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Diac, Cristina (29 January 2010). "Prima "mineriadă": "Țărăniști în blugi și geacă, care n-au văzut o vacă!"". Jurnalul Național (in Romanian).
^ "Cum au fost înăbușite protestele din ianuarie 1990 împotriva FSN". Digi24 (in Romanian). 15 February 2017.

v t e Riots, protests and civil disorder in Romania and predecessor states
Before the 20th century	Bobâlna revolt Săbăoani revolt Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan Wallachian uprising of 1821 Moldavian Revolution of 1848 Wallachian Revolution of 1848 Republic of Ploiești 1888 Romanian Peasants' revolt
20th century	1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt Romanian Fleet mutiny 1918 Bucharest strike Khotyn Uprising Ținutul Sării revolt Bender Uprising 1920 Romanian general strike Tatarbunary Uprising Lupeni strike of 1929 Grivița strike of 1933 Ghimeș Valley peasant revolt Legionnaire rebellion Bucharest student movement of 1956 Timișoara student movement of 1956 Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 Brașov Rebellion 1989 Romanian Revolution 1990 ethnic clashes in Târgu Mureș Golaniad Bridge of Flowers demonstration Mineriads January 1990 Mineriad February 1990 Mineriad June 1990 Mineriad September 1991 Mineriad January 1999 Mineriad February 1999 Mineriad 1993 Hădăreni riots
21st century	2006 Ferentari riot 2012–2015 unrest in Romania 2012 Romanian protests 2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas 2012 Romanian constitutional crisis 2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project 2015 Romanian protests 2017–19 Romanian protests 2019 disputes regarding the military cemetery in Valea Uzului [ro] 2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident 2023 Romanian teachers' strike

v t e Ion Iliescu
2nd President of Romania Born (1930-03-03)3 March 1930
Political activities	President of Iași County Council (1974–1979) President of the National Salvation Front (1990–1992) President of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004) Honorary President of the Social Democratic Party (2001–present)
Parties	Communist Party (1953–1984) National Salvation Front (1990–1992) Democratic National Salvation Front (1992–1993) Party of Social Democracy in Romania (1993–2001) Social Democratic Party (2001–present)
Elections and referendums	1990 general election 1991 constitutional referendum 1992 general election 1996 general election 2000 general election 2003 constitutional referendum
Events	Mineriads January 1990 February 1990 June 1990 September 1991 Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (1990) Golaniad (1990) Bridge of Flowers (1990) 1990 Vrancea earthquakes Caritas (1992–1994) 1993 Hădăreni riots Snagov Declaration 2002 floods 2002–2007 property bubble
← Nicolae Ceaușescu Emil Constantinescu → ← Emil Constantinescu Traian Băsescu →