In 1734 there were only the trails of the present-day Dacians' and Stephen the Great streets, which were not yet bordered by buildings.

One-storey buildings also appeared in the 19th century; Trajan Square thus acquires an urban character.

[2] Two public monuments are also located in Trajan Square: the obelisk or pyramid with a cross, erected in 1774 by the Timișoara high official Stojša Spasojević, and the stone bell, the work of the sculptor Ștefan Călărășanu, erected in honor of the 1989 Revolution.

[4] As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, this name was translated into Hungarian: Fő tér.

From the mid-1890s the square was named after the Hungarian national hero Lajos Kossuth,[5] who died in 1894.