· July, 1, 1926 - Gheorghe Ursu was born in the Bessarabean town of Soroca. His parents, Vasile from Galati, and Margareta from Magura Ilvei Nasaud, were both medical surgeons.
· 1932 - 1936 - He attended primary school in Soroca.
· 1936 - 1941 - He started high school in Soroca.
· 1941 - The war years found the Ursu family in Galati, birth town of the father, Vasile Ursu. The mother's parents together with other ten members of her family were killed by the Nazi at Auschwitz.
· 1942 - 1945 - He continued attending high school at "Vasile Alecsandri" Lyceum in Galati. He participated in the activities of an anti-Nazi group, of which the writers Iordan Chimet and Camil Baciu were also members.
· In June 1944 he became a U.T.C. [The Union of Communist Youth] member. He persevered in his anti-Nazi activities. The Antonescu's [the Romanian military leader at that period] police kept him under surveillance.
· 1944 - He made his literary debut in the democratic magazine "The Echo", in the literary page maintained by the writers Miron Radu Paraschivescu, Virgil Ierunca and Ion Caraion. He published an essay about Jean de Meung (May 22, 1944) and one about Jules Verne (August 8, 1944). He started to write a diary in which he described political, cultural, and personal events, and his views and opinions. He wrote all his life thousands pages in this diary. Nobody from his family or friends however had access to it.
· 1945 - 1950 - He was a student at the Polytechnics University of Bucharest, the Civil Engineering Section. He volunteered to work on an industrial construction site believing, if only for a short time, in the attempt of the new political regime to reconstruct the country after the war. He became a P.C.R. [The Romanian Communist Party] member, but soon, very disappointed by the changes for the worse in political events, he turned, due to his critical position, into an inconvenient individual for the communist regime.
· In 1950 he was excluded from the Communist Party because of his uncomfortable questions regarding the communist regime and because of his friendship with so-called "reactionary elements" [individuals opposed to the communist authority].
· 1950 - 1985 - For all these 35 years, he worked at the Design and Constructions Institute. He was an engineer highly specialized in structure resistance for constructions. He designed an impressive number of residential, commercial, and industrial constructions, schools, hospitals and hotels. He contributed the text to a picture album about Romanian architecture, which he published together with Mirel Iliesiu.
· 1970 - He published a book of poems "Always Two", Litera Publishing House, with a foreword by Nina Cassian.
· 1977-1978 - After the strong earthquake of 1977, the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ordered the removal of the earthquake's disastrous traces through a superficial cosmetology, by filling up the fissures or by painting over the crannies.
· The engineer Gheorghe Ursu opposed this order and filed protests with the competent authorities. And because the authorities paid no attention to his warning signal, he wrote to the "Free Europe" radio station. He thus became a suspect and the Political Police- Securitate- started to keep an eye on him. It is worthy to mention that none of the constructions designed by Gheorghe Ursu suffered any earthquake damage.
· 1980 - He gave his travel book "My Europe" to the Publishing House Albatros. The Publishing House shelved the manuscript. It was to be published only in 1991, by Dacia Publishing House from Cluj.
· 1984 - Two indoctrinated women, subordinates of Gheorghe Ursu, informed the Securitate about his diary. The Securitate made a house search and confiscated 61 notebooks containing all his daily entries from 1949 to 1984. There followed an investigation while he was still in freedom. He was interrogated about his letters to Europa Libera radio station, about anticommunist and anti-ceausescu criticisms and satires from his diary, about his friends from the country and from abroad. He refused to give away his friends.
· 21 September 1985 - He was arrested under the pretext of hiding foreign currency; 16 dollars were found after a house search.
· 17 November 1985 - He was killed by torture in the Militia Jail on Calea Rahovei (Rahova Road), Bucharest.
· April 1990 - A case file was at last compiled, according to which superior officers from Militia and Securitate were responsible for Gheorghe Ursu's death.
The file was sent to the Military Prosecutor's Office for the indictment of those officers. The case is still unsolved.