1914-18
First World War. Romania is occupied by Germany.

1918
Romanian unification is complete, after Transylvania is united with the Romanian kingdom.

1918-20
School is interrupted due to local post-war conditions.

1921
The Romanian Communist Party is founded. It will be outlawed soon, in 1924. Its memberhip was less than a thousand, until 1945. 

1920-23
Ţuţea obtains a scholarship at the  "Gh. Bariţiu" high school in Cluj; he tutors Cpt. Sevastian M. Ciupagea in exchange for room and board at a military unit

1923-26
Studies law at the King Ferdinand University in Cluj. Lives at the "Avram Iancu" student residence. Writes for the National Peasant Party publication, Patria ("Homeland"). The NPP was a center-left party, the fusion of the National and Peasant parties in Transylvania. The other major party in Romania, the National Liberal Party, was very influential in all major cities.

1927
The Legion of the Archangel Michael, a right-wing nationalist christian movement is founded by Corneliu Codreanu in Iaşi, a.k.a the militant anti-communist organization "Iron Guard" and its political wing, the "Totul Pentru Ţară" party ("Everything for the Fatherland"), as it is repeatedly outlawed and reconstituted.

1926-29
Ţuţea registers for the Ph.D. exams. Obtains a Ph.D. in Administrative Law,  M a g n a  c u m  L a u d e from the University of Cluj.

1929-32
Works at the civil court in Pui. Writes for The Call, the official newspaper of the National Peasant Youth organisation.

1932
Edits the marxist newspaper Stânga ("Left") where Ţuţea signs with the pseudonym Petre Boteanu (that he will use later under different circumstances). His collaborators are Sorin Pavel, Petre Pandrea (who signed the Pure As a White Lily manifesto in Gândirea, an influential paper) and Traian Herseni, Petru Comarnescu, Mihai D. Ralea. Stânga is soon outlawed along with all left-wing organizations and publications.

1933
A referent in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which is going to change its name in 1936.

1933
Hitler becomes the Chancellor of the German Third Reich. In Romania, The Iron Guard is brutally dissolved by order of the Prime Minister, I.G. Duca, who is subsequently assasinated by three legionnaires.

1933-34
Ţuţea  is an official attaché at the Romanian Economic Office in Berlin, where he meets Nae Ionescu, a very influential opinion leader and philosopher. His close friend Emil Cioran studied in Berlin in 1934.

1935
Co-writer of the Manifestul revoluţiei naţionale ("National Revolution Manifesto") with Sorin Pavel, Ioan Crăciunel, Gheorghe Tite, Nicolae Tatu and Petre Ercuţă. The Manifesto proposes a conservative, nationalist, right-wing position on national and economic issues, which is surprising to everyone who knew Ţuţea as a progressive intellectual.

1936-39
Ţuţea  becomes Head of Department in The National Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bureau of Economic Publications and Propaganda. In 1938 he is a columnist for Cuvântul, ("The Word"), a right-wing newspaper led by Nae Ionescu, who at that time was closely associated with the Legionary Movement. Among other columninsts at Cuvântul  we find many leading intellectuals: Octav Onicescu, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Perpessicius.

1938-39
King Carol II establishes a Royal Dictatorship. All political parties are outlawed. Corneliu Codreanu, Leader of the Iron Guard is imprisoned  then assasinated in a setup, under the pretext of a prison transfer. Many prominent members of the Legionary Movement are imprisoned or murdered. Some sympathizers are also detained; among them, Nae Ionescu and Mircea Eliade. An organized group of legionnaires assasinate prime-minister Armand Calinescu in revenge. The government orders the killing of many legionnaires accross the country, and hundreds are summarily executed by the authorities. 

1940
Ţuţea  is Head of Department  in the Ministry of International Commerce. Nae Ionescu dies suddenly.

1940
As a consequence of the Vienna Diktat and the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, both sponsored by Germany, Transylvania is annexed by Hungary and Bessarabia is annexed by the Soviet Union. Many Romanian citizens are deported or killed. King Carol II is forced to abdicate, and his young successor Mihai becomes king. In September, Romania is declared a National Legionary State. General Ion Antonescu is Head of the State and Horia Sima, Commander of the Iron Guard forms a Legionary Government.

1940-41
Ţuţea writes pro-legionary articles in "Cuvântul". Later that year, he is part of the delegation sent to Moscow for economic negotiations.

1941
Groups of legionnaires take revenge on all those considered responsible for the massacres of 1938-39, among them one of the most famous romanian scholars and respected member of the Academy, Nicolae Iorga. In January the National Legionary State is abolished, while Sima and Antonescu are in disagreement. The army clashes with armed legionnaires. Many are arrested; Sima with other leaders flee to Germany, where some are placed in internment camps. Marshall Ion Antonescu establishes a dictatorship and joins Hitler in his attack on the Soviet Union.

1941-44
Ţuţea is Head of Department  in The Ministry of War Economy. 

1942-43
Romanian public opinion disagrees with the course of the war. As much as the Soviet Union was a major threat, Romanians never forgot Hitler's bad faith as reflected in the Vienna Diktat (at that time the Ribbentrop-Molotov clause on Bessarabia and the Baltic republics remained a secret). Contrary to Romanian historical tradition, Antonescu followed Hitler beyond the Dniester border, into Odessa and to the outskirts of Stalingrad.

1944
In August, Ion Antonescu is dismissed by King Mihai then arrested. Romania joins the allies in the war against Germany.

1944-48
Ţuţea is Director in the National Ministry of Economic Affairs.

1946
Antonescu is tried and executed.

1947
King Mihai is forced to abdicate. Romania is proclaimed a People's Republic, under d e  f a c t o  occupation by Soviet troops.

1948-53
Ţuţea is arrested for questioning and held without a trial at the Ocnele Mari prison camp.

1953-56
Freed on parole. Lives with relatives, no known stable occupation.

1956
The Soviet Union supresses the Hungarian uprising

1956-64
Ţuţea is arrested again on December 22 and accused of "conspiracy against the established order", a standard, generic formula of accusation used for many intellectuals and dignitaries associated with the former government, or anyone the communist rulers wanted to persecute for various reasons - even former communist sympathizers. He is sentenced to ten years in 1957. While he is in jail, anothe trial is opened in 1959 and he is sentenced to 18 years of forced labor.

1960-64
Goes through the infamous "reeducation" process, supervised by the director of the Aiud prison, Colonel Crăciun.

August 1964
General amnesty of all political prisoners.

1965
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes First Secretary of the Romanian Workers' Party. He renames it the Romanian Communist Party and the country is proclaimed The Socialist Republic of Romania. This amounts to a declaration of independence from Soviet influence.

1965
Ţuţea writes a analysis of the prospects of economic development in Romania. The main copy is confiscated.

1967
Receives a minimum of 434 lei as Social Security. Meets Aurel-Dragoş Munteanu.

1968
Starts a major project, Theatre as Seminar and writes a play called Common Events (the first part was written in collaboration with Gh. Lăpuşneanu), and two dialogues, Bios and Eros. A few fragments are published in the literary magazine Familia ("The Family") in Oradea. Two of his closest friends, Petre Pandrea şi Oscar Lemnaru pass away. Ţuţea applies for a pension from The Writer's Union, approved by Zaharia Stancu, with Al. Andriţoiu's help.

1968
Nicolae Ceauşescu publicly opposes the invasion of Czechoslovakia by troops of the Warsaw Pact, led by the Soviet Union. Many young intellectuals join the Romanian Communist Party, showing their support for Ceauşescu's opposition to Soviet international policies. Aurel-Dragoş Munteanu, Paul Goma and Adrian Păunescu  join together the same day in August.