From the Reform Era to the revolution of March 1848

  • 1351

    Law of Entailment

    -Louis I. (Anjou dynasty)
    -noble landholdings can be only inherited by the family members and if the last member of the family dies the land goes back to the king
  • Period: to

    István Széchenyi

  • Széchenyi travelled to England

  • Society of Hungarian Scientists

    -later it became the Academy
    -Széchenyi offered his year's of income of his holdings to support it
  • Széchenyi wrote 2 letters to Metternich

  • Period: to

    1st Reform Diet

    wider use of the Hungarian language
  • Period: to

    Reform Era

    its aim to develop Hungary peacefully by passing reform bills-the reforms were initiated by the nobility
  • Széchenyi published Hitel

  • Széchenyi made Vaskapu navigable for ships

  • Cholera epidemic

    -it led to a peasant rebellion
    -quarantine
    -bismuth
  • Balítéletek

    Balítéletek-his reform ideas (against Hapsburgs)
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    2nd Reform Diet

    -cholera epidemic
    -9 committees
    -increased duties of the serfs
    -general taxation
  • Francis I. died

    -Ferdinand V.
    -Metternich: imprisonment of Lovassy, Kossuth and Wesselényi
  • The flood of Pest

    Wesselényi saved many people's life
  • Period: to

    3rd Reform Diet

    -Hapsburgs set the arrested politicians free
    -optional redemption
    -Hungarian industrial companies
  • First industrial exhibition

    -underdeveloped Hungarian industry
  • Period: to

    4th Reform Diet

    Védegylet
  • Védegylet

    -Kossuth
    -a non-governmental organization to promote the development of the Hungarian industrial production
  • Lajos Batthyány

    meeting for the leaders of the different opposition groups
  • First Hungarian railway line PEST-VÁC

  • Conservative Party

  • Opposition Party