Elected to the National Diet
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Budapest in Hungary. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Elected to the National Diet
Completes the construction of a suspension bridge from Buda to Pest
Imprisoned on political charges
Completes the construction of a railway line from Budapest to Vienna
Appointed Hungarian Diet
The insurrection is crushed & Kossuth flees to Turkey where he is imprisoned
Hungary is invaded by a Russian Army sent by Tzar Nicholas I to aid Franz Josej
Hungarys 1st constitutional Prime Minister
Persues a policy of Magyarization
Loses land to the Allies & is replaced by Bela Kun & the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Declares Hungary a Republic
Commands the army & takes over Budapest from Bela Kun
Protests against the Armistice, cession of Croatia, Transylvania, Banat & Slovakia
Overthrown from power
The Communist Bela Kun regime is overthrown by Romanian & Czech intervention
Appointed Regent
Appointed Regent of Hungary, self-appointed
Secures financial reconstruction from the League of Nations
Secures financial reconstruction from the League of Nations
Uses League channels over Hungarian minority questions.
Birth of Ferenc Puskas Biro
Hungary joins the anti-commintern pact with Germany, Italy & Japan
Introduces anti-Jewish law
Resigns after the discovery that his mother had a Jewish grandmother
Death of Ferenc Szalasi, executed for massacaring Jews in Budapest
For murdering thousands of Jews during the final days of German occupation in Budapest
Receives radar echoes from the Moon in independent experiments.
Resigns over the trial of Laslzo Rajik
Releases the Hungarian Primate, Cardinal Mindszenty
Releases the Hungarian Primate, Cardinal Mindszenty
Announces Hungry will assume neutral status & allow the formation of political parties
Forms a Government in eastern Hungary free from "fascist ounter-revolutionaries"
Death of Imre Nagy, executed
Dismissed during the Hungarian rebellion
Executed during the "counter-revolution", despite promise of safe conduct from Russia
Announces Hungry will assume neutral status & allow the formation of political parties. Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status
Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status
Executed during the period of "counter-revolution". Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status. Allows the political parties of 1945 to reform
Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status
Decides democratization has gone too far
Decides democratization has gone too far
Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status. Announces Hungary will leave the Warsaw Pact
Announces Hungary will withdraw from the Warsaw Pact & seek neutral status
Rakosi is encouraged to resign by Russia but this appeasement provokes Hungarians
The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks supporting Kadar return to Budapest & shell insurgents. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez
The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez
The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez
The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez
Parliament grants the government emergency powers during the pandemic.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Hungary and Budapest. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
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