The 1874 transit was an event that attracted world-wide attention, and many nations arranged observing stations within their own territories or organized international expeditions in order to try and contribute to one of the most challenging problems in astronomy at the time: the value of the solar parallax (and hence the 'astronomical unit'). Romania was also involved in these exploits when two Austrian astronomers, Edmund Weiss and Theodor von Oppolzer, came to Jassy to observe the transit, with assistance from two Romanian astronomers, Stefan Micle and Neculai Culianu. In this paper I describe the state of Romanian astronomy at this time before providing an account of the transit observations.
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