Hungary profile – timeline – BBC News – WBNews

A chronology of key events: 9th century – Magyars under Prince Arpad settle Danube plain Bela Bartok Image copyright Getty Images Bartok was a major classical composer and collector of folk music BBC Music – Bartok 1000 – Stephen I, a descendant of Arpad, recognized by Pope as first Christian king of Hungary, expands Hungarian control over Carpathian basin. 1241-1242 – Mongol invasion devastates large parts of Hungary. 1342-1382 – Reign of Louis the Great, who annexes Dalmatia and founds Hungary’s first university at Pecs. 1456 – Forces led by Hungarian nobleman Janos Hunyadi defeat Ottoman army at Siege of Belgrade. 1526 – Ottoman Turks defeat forces of Hungarian king at Battle of Mohacs, establishing control over most of the country. Habsburg rule 1699 – Austrian Habsburgs under Leopold I expel Turks. 1848-49 – Uprising against Habsburg rule under Lajos Kossuth suppressed by military force. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hungarians trade paprika – a key ingredient of the local diet – in this picture taken in around 1915 1867 – Hungary becomes equal partner in Austro-Hungarian Empire. Independence restored 1918 – Austro-Hungarian Empire is broken up at the end of World War I. Hungarian republic is proclaimed following a revolution. 1919 – Communists take over power under Bela Kun. Kun wages war on Czechoslovakia and Romania. Romanian forces occupy Budapest and hand power to Admiral Miklos Horthy. 1920 – Under Treaty of Trianon, Entente powers award more than two-thirds of Hungarian territory to Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. The…more detail