1751-1900
1751-1900
1753 Peasant movements of Hódmezővásárhely and Mezőtúr.
1754 Maria Theresa’s customs decrees.
1755 Peasant movement in Kőrös county.
1760 Organization of the Staatsrat (survives until 1848). The organization of the Vienna-based Hungarian noblemen’s bodyguards.
1764 Massacre at Madéfalva. The emigration of the Széklers starts.
1765 Transylvanian Grand Duchy.
1765-1766 The peasant movements of Transdanubia.
1767 Publication of a decree on statute labour by Maria Theresa.
1774 Invasion of Bukovina.
1777 Ratio Educationis: Maria Theresa’s educational decree. The second lllyrian Regulamentum; settlement of the situation of Serbs living in Hungary.
1778 Rejoining of the Temes banate.
1779 Fiume linked to Hungary.
1780-1790 Rule of József ll.
1781-1782 Confirmation of the Placetum Regium: Jewish decree, the press decree, the decree on patience, the decree on secularization, unification of the governor council and the Hungarian Chamber, the unification of the Hungarian and Transylvanian chancellery.
1784 Language and customs decrees promulgated by King József II. Serfs revolt in Transylvania under the leadership of Horia and Closca.
1785 Decree on serfs. Abolition of eternal serfdom.
1790 Cancellation of decrees by József II.
1790-1792 King Lipót ll.
1792-1835 King Ferenc I.
1792 Open letter to Ferenc dictated by Martinovics.
1793 Restoration of the customs border line between Hungary and Austria.
1794 Leaders of the Hungarian Jacobite movement arrested.
1795 Archduke Sándor Lipót’s memorandum on the basic principles of governing.
20 May 1795 Execution of the Jacobite leaders.
1806 County Pest turns over to the use of the Hungarian language. II Ratio Educationis.
1807 Peasant revolt at Syrmia.
15 May 1809 Napoleon’s proclamation to the Hungarians
24 June 1809 Battle of Győr.
31 Aug. 1809 Győr receives Napoleon.
1811 Publication of a royal decree about the devaluation of paper money to a fifth of its original value. The feudal orders protest.
1811-1886 Ferenc Liszt.
1815 Outbreak of a nationwide cholera epidemic.
1816 Royal decree: Paper money devalued by 40%.
1822-1833 Increasing resistance from the counties.
1823 Ferenc Kölcsey: the National Anthem.
1825 Széchenyi pledges the funds to establish the Academy of Sciences.
1828 First horse race in Pest.
1830 Publication of István Széchenyi’s work Credit. Opening of the first steam ship service between Pest and Vienna.
1831 Miklós Wesselényi: Misjudgements. István Széchenyi: World. Outbreak of cholera epidemic at Szécskeresztúr.
1832-1836 The period of the first Reform Age national assembly.
1832 ‘Reports from Parliament’ launched by Kossuth.
1833 Debates conducted by the two houses in Hungarian.
1834 Formation by the young parliamentarians of the Debating Association.
1835 Prosecution of Wesselényi.
1835-1848 Rule of King Ferdinand V.
1836 Kossuth starts Municipal Records publication.
1837 Kossuth arrested.
13-15 March 1838 Pest flood.
29 Apr.1840 Kossuth, Wesselényi and the young university students released.
1841 Formation of the Hungarian Industrial Association. Pesti Hírlap starts. The Szatmár 12 points. István Széchenyi: ‘People of the Orient’. 1842 The laying of the foundation stone of the Chain Bridge.
1844 The Hungarian Trade Society, the Society for the Establishment of Factories.
12 Nov. 1847-11 Apr. 1848 Last feudal national assembly.
6 March 1848 Adoption of the manumission compensation law.
11 March 1848 Formulation of the 12 Points.
15 March 1848 Parliamentary delegation leaves for Vienna. Revolution in Pest.
17 March 1848 Royal ordinance: Lajos Batthyány declared prime minister.
7 Apr. 1848 Formation of the Batthyány government.
14 Apr. 1848 Government moves from Pozsony to Pest.
29 Sept 1848 Battle of Pákozd.
30 Oct.1848 Battle of Schwechat.
2 Dec.1848 – 21 Nov.1916 Rule of Franz Joseph I (king of Hungary from 8 June 1867).
14 Apr. 1849 Dethronement of the House of Habsburg. Kossuth elected governor-president.
23-24 Apr. 1849 Liberation of Pest.
1 May 1849 Formation of the Szemere government.
4-21 May 1849 Siege and liberation of Buda.
9 May 1849 Czarist proclamation about Russian assistance.
30 May 1849 Haynau appointed commander in chief of the imperial army by the sovereign.
11 July 1849 Occupation of Buda and Pest.
31 July 1849 Battle of Segesvár. Death of Petőfi.
11 Aug. 1849 Resignation of Kossuth, Görgey receives full powers.
13 Aug. 1849 Surrender at Világos.
6 Oct. 1849 Execution of Lajos Batthyány and the 13 martyrs of Arad.
1850 Haynau relieved of his post. Abolition of the customs border between Austria and Hungary.
1851 Establishment of the Imperial Council.
5 Dec.1851 -14 July 1852 Kossuth travels to America.
1853 Publication of the manumission patent.
8 Apr. 1860 Death of István Széchenyi at the Döbling mental hospital.
1860 Sentencing of Mihály Táncsics – October Diploma.
1861 The February Patent – Deák’s petition. The assembly of Romanians at Balázsfalva.
1861 The Slovak national assembly at Túrószentmárton.
1862 Publication of Kossuth’s Danube Confederation Plan.
16 Apr.1865 Publication of Deák’s Easter article.
22 Feb.1866 Deák’s petition proposal.
29 May 1867 Adoption of the Compromise in Parliament.
8 June 1867 Coronation of Franz Joseph.
1868 Formation of the General Workers’ Association. The Croatian-Hungarian Compromise (article 30 1868). Law on elementary schools and the nationalities (article 44).
1871-1879 Joint foreign ministerial position of Gyula Andrássy.
1872 First political worker’s trial (“traitor case”).
1873 Unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda.
1874 New election law.
1878 Renewal of economic compromise between Austria and Hungary. Invasion of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1879 The law on elementary schools.
1880 Formation of the General Workers’ Party of Hungary.
1882-1883 The “religious rites trial” of Tiszaeszlár. Antisemitic wave in Hungary.
1875-1884 Mikós Ybl: construction of the Opera House.
1885 Reform of the upper house.
1890 This is the first time May Day is celebrated by the Hungarian workers. Formation of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary.
1894 Formation of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Hungary under the leadership of Pál Engelmann.
2 Apr. 1894 Funeral of Lajos Kossuth.
1895 Congress of nationalities in Budapest.
2 May 1896 Opening of the Millennium exhibition.
1896 Foundation of the Nagybánya Artists’ Colony.
1899 The Kálmán Széll pact with the opposition, fusion of the National Party with the government party.
1899-1903 Kálmán Széll’s government.
1899 1st National Trade Union Congress.
1900 Reorganization by Vilmos Mezőfi of the Social Democratic Party.
