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1918

October

28
- The Aster RevolutionOn 28 October 1918 police fired on demonstrators at the Chain Bridge in Budapest. Three days later Mihály Károlyi took power in Hungary.

November

13
- The Hungarian–Romanian War beginsOn 13 November 1918 Hungary signed an Allied military convention in Belgrade as Romanian patrols crossed the Carpathians. The fight for Transylvania began.

1919

March

21
- The proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet RepublicOn 21 March 1919 Social Democrats and Communists took power in Budapest and proclaimed the dictatorship of the proletariat. Béla Kun was its real leader.

August

1920

June

04
- The Treaty of TrianonOn 4 June 1920 Hungary signed peace with the Entente at Versailles. It lost two thirds of the kingdom's lands and over three million Hungarians ended up abroad.

1921

August

29
- The US peace treaty with HungaryOn 29 August 1921 in Budapest the US made a separate peace with Hungary, taking its rights under the Treaty of Trianon but no responsibility for the borders.

1939

March

April

04
- The Hungarian–Slovak border agreementOn 4 April 1939 in Budapest Slovakia recognised a new border with Hungary, ceding the strip around Sobrance and Stakčín seized in the “Little War”.

1940

August

30
- Key eventThe Second Vienna AwardOn 30 August 1940 Ribbentrop and Ciano announced at the Belvedere in Vienna an award that took northern Transylvania from Romania and gave it to Hungary.

November

20
- Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Tripartite PactBetween 20 and 24 November 1940 Hungary, Romania and Slovakia joined the Tripartite Pact. Hitler bound to the Axis the states he needed for war in the east.

1941

April

03
- The suicide of Pál TelekiOn the night of 2–3 April 1941 Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki shot himself in Budapest as his country joined Germany against friendly Yugoslavia.

June

26
- Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the USSRSlovakia joined the war on the USSR on 23 June 1941. Hungary, after a mysterious air raid on Kassa on 26 June, announced a state of war the next day.

July

02
- The Hungarians in StanisławówOn 2 July 1941 Hungarian troops entered Stanisławów, abandoned by the Red Army. In late July the Germans took over, and with them came the Holocaust.

December

06
- Britain declares war on FinlandOn 6 December 1941 London announced it would be at war with Finland, Hungary and Romania from one minute past midnight on 7 December. The dominions followed.

1942

June

05
- The US declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and RomaniaOn 5 June 1942 Roosevelt signed Congress's resolutions on a state of war with Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania – the last formal US declarations of war.

1943

January

26
- The liberation of VoronezhIn January 1943 the Voronezh Front crushed the Hungarian Second Army and the Italian Alpine Corps on the Don, and on 25 January retook ruined Voronezh.

1944

March

19
- Key eventThe Germans occupy HungaryOn 19 March 1944 the Wehrmacht occupied Hungary in Operation Margarethe. Horthy remained regent, but real power passed to Veesenmayer and the SS.

April

03
- The raids on Budapest and BucharestOn 3 April 1944 bombers of the US Fifteenth Air Force struck Budapest for the first time, and Bucharest a day later. Several thousand civilians died.

June

02
- Operation FranticOn 2 June 1944 American bombers from Italy struck Debrecen and landed in Ukraine, beginning shuttle-bombing missions through bases in the USSR.

October

December

1945

February

13
- The end of the siege of BudapestOn 13 February 1945 the last units in Buda surrendered. Of 28,000 soldiers in the breakout of 11 February, only some 700 reached the German lines.

March