Timeline of Budapest

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Budapest, Hungary.

Before 19th century

  • 1st C. CE - Romans found the settlements known as Aquincum, Contra-Aquincum and Campona. Aquincum becomes the largest town of the Danubian region and one of the capitals of Pannonia.[1]
  • 376 CE - Aquincum invaded by the Huns.[2]
  • 5th C. - The Age of Huns.[1] King Attila builds a city for himself here according to later chronicles. After his death, the sons of his brother controlled the united Hun tribes.
  • 896 - Following the foundation of Hungary, Árpád, leader of the Hungarians, settles in the "Town of Attila", usually identified as Aquincum.
  • 10th C. - Out of the seven to ten Hungarian tribes, four have settlements in the territory of modern Budapest: Megyer, Keszi, Jenő and Nyék.
  • end of 10th C. - Magyars came into the country and preserved the names of Buda and Pest.[2]
  • 1015 - Matthias Church established (approximate date).[2]
  • 1046 - Bishop Gerard of Csanád dies at the hands of pagans on present-day Gellért Hill.
  • 1241 - Mongol invasions destroy both towns.[1][2]
  • 1244 - Created a royal free city by Bela IV.[2]
  • 1248 - King Béla IV builds the first royal castle on Castle Hill, Buda.[1] The new town adopts the name of Buda from the earlier one (present day Óbuda). Pest is surrounded by city walls.[2]
  • 1255 - Matthias Church reconstruction begins.[2]
  • 1265 - Buda Castle first completed.[2]
  • 1270 - Saint Margaret of Hungary dies in a cloister on the Isle of Rabbits (present day Margaret Island).
  • 1361 - Buda became the capital of Hungary.[2]
  • 1458 - The noblemen of Hungary elect Matthias Corvinus (in Latin) or Hunyadi Mátyás (in Hungarian) as king on the ice of the Danube. Under his reign Buda becomes a main hub of European Renaissance. He dies in 1490, after capturing Vienna in 1485.
  • 1472 - Printing press established in Buda.[3]
  • 1526 - 26 November: Buda taken by forces of Ottman Suleyman.[1][4][2]
  • 1530 - Siege of Buda (1530).
  • 1540 - Siege of Buda (1540).
  • 1541
  • 1542 - Siege of Pest.[1]
  • 1550 - Rudas Baths built.
  • 1566 - Sokollu Mustafa Pasha becomes Pasha of Buda.[1]
  • 1602 - An unsuccessful assault on Budapest under Field Marshal Hermann Christof von Russwurm (2 October - 15 November 1602).[6]
  • 1686 - Battle of Buda (1686).[1] Buda and Pest are reconquered from the Turks with Habsburg leadership. Both towns are destroyed completely in the battles.[4]
  • 1690s - Resettlement, initially only a few hundred German settlers.
  • 1699 - By the Treaty of Karlowitz the emperor of Austria undertook to preserve a small octagonal Turkish mosque beneath which is the grave of a Turkish monk.[2]
  • 1723 - Pest became the seat of the highest Hungarian officials.[2]
  • 1769 - Buda Castle reconstruction completed.[2]
  • 1771 - Citadel built in Buda.[7]
  • 1773 - Election of the first Mayor of Pest.
  • 1777 - Maria Theresa of Austria moves Nagyszombat University to Castle Hill in Buda.[7]
  • 1783 - Joseph II places the acting government (Helytartótanács) and Magyar Kamara on Buda.
  • 1795 - 20 May - Ignác Martinovics and other Jacobin leaders are executed on Vérmező or 'The Field of Blood'.
  • 1799 - Combined population: 54,179.[2]

19th century

1873–1900

20th century

1901–1945

1946–1990s

21st century

See also

References

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  4. Haydn 1910.
  5. Overall 1870.
  6. Ferenc Szakály, "The Early Ottoman Period, Including Royal Hungary, 1526-1606", in A History of Hungary, edited by Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák, Tibor Frank (Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 97: "In both 1602 and 1603, imperial troops under general Hermann Russwurm tried unsuccessfully to attack Buda."
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