History of Hungary

By morgan7070
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Steven I Became Hungary's first king and converted the country to the Roman Catholic Religion

  • Jan 1, 1241

    The Mongols invaded Hungary

  • Period: Jan 1, 1458 to Dec 31, 1490

    Matthias Hunyadi ruled Hungary and helped make it a center of Italian Renaissance culture

  • Jan 1, 1526

    The Ottoman Empire defeated Hungary in the Battle of Mohacs. Soon afterward, the Ottomans occupied central and eastern Hungary

  • Period: to

    Austrian Habsburg forces drove the Ottomans out of Hungary and took control of the country

  • Period: to

    Francis Rakoczi II led an unsuccessful uprising to gain Hungarian independence

  • Lajos Kossuth led an anti-Habsburg revolution, which was defeated the following year

  • The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established

  • Period: to

    Austria-Hungary was defeated in World War I

  • Hungary became a republic

  • Bela Kun established the first Hungarian Communist government. It lasted only a few months

  • Period: to

    Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a conservative, ruled Hungary as a regent (in the place of a king)

  • Hungary entered World War II on Germany's side

  • Germany, which mistrusted Hungary as an ally, occupied the country

  • Hungary and the Allies signed an armistice

  • Hungary again became a republic. The new government started political, economic, and social reforms

  • Period: to

    Hungarian Communists gradually gained control of the government

  • The Allies signed a peace treaty with Hungary that confirmed the terms of the 1945 armistice

  • Hungary became a member of the United Nations

  • Soviet forces crushed an anti-Communist revolution in Hungary

  • Hungary's Communist Party agreed to allow other political parties to operate in the country

  • The 40-year rule of the Communist Party ended

  • Hungary joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance of Western nations

  • The Magyars conquered Hungary