On the Stage of Europe. The millennial contribution of Hungary to the idea of European Community (Budapest, 2009)

Marosi Ernő (szerk.): On the Stage of Europe. The millennial contribution of Hungary to the idea of European Community (Budapest, 2009)

Romsics Ignác: Interruption ad continuity in the twentieth century history of Hungary

alliance against Matthias. The king puts down the rebellion. 1468-1479 Wars against George of Podebrady, king of Bohemia. 1471, July-December The abortive conspiracy of John Vitéz of Zredna, archbishop of Esztergom, against King Matthias. 1473 András Hess prints Chronica Hungarorum in Buda. 1476.15 February Matthias retakes from the Ottomans the castle of Szabács. 1477 The Hungarian-Austrian war. 1479,13 October Lord Chief Justice István Bäthon and Pál Kinizsi, count of Temes, defeat the invading Ottomans in the battle of Kenyérmező in Transylvania. 1482, April Matthias declares war on Frederick III. 1485, 1 June Matthias marches into the captured castle of Vienna. 1486, 25 January King Matthias sanctions the laws of December 1485 (the so-called Decretum maius). 1490, 6 April King Matthias dies in Vienna. He is buried on 25 April in Székesfehérvár. 1490.15 July King Wladislas II ascends the throne. Also king of Bohemia, he rules Hungary until 1516. 1493, 11 September The Croatian armies suffer a crushing defeat from the pasha of Bosnia in the battle of Udbina (Krbava). 1505, 13 October In accordance with the so-called Writ of Rákos, a foreigner cannot be elected king of Hungary. 1506 The conclusion of the Habsburg-Jagiello marriage contract. 1514, 9 April Tamás Bakócz, archbishop of Esztergom, announces a Crusade in Buda. 1514, May-July The peasant war led by György Dózsa. 1514, 15 July The peasant army of the Szeklerborn György Dózsa surrenders to János Szapolyai, voivode of Transylvania. 1514 autumn The diet at Buda passes anti-serf laws. 1514, 19 November The king approves protonotary István Werbőczy's law book, the Tripartitum, but it is not promulgated. 1516, 13 March The reign of King Louis II (until 1526). 1521, 29 August Nándorfehérvár falls to the Ottomans. 1523, October A meeting is held between Hungary, Austria and Poland in Wiener Neustadt to discuss anti-Ottoman defence policy and improving Hungarian government. 1526, 20 July King Louis II and his armies set off from Buda to fight the Ottomans. 1526, 29 August The battle of Mohács. King Louis 332 II drowns in the Csele Rivulet during his attempted escape from the battlefield. 1526, 10 November John (János) I (Szapolyai) is crowned in Székesfehérvár. He rules until his death in 1540. 1526, 16 December The Pozsony Diet elects Ferdinand of Habsburg (king of Bohemia and archduke of Austria) king of Hungary. 1527, 3 November The coronation of Ferdinand I in Székesfehérvár. He rules until his death in 1564. 1528, 8 January Ferdinand I sets up in Buda Hungary's new financial governing body, the Hungarian Chamber which is based in Pozsony after 1531. 1528, 28 February In Istanbul John I concludes an alliance with Sultan Süleyman I and becomes his vassal. 1529, 26 September-15 October Sultan Süleyman makes an abortive attempt at taking Vienna. 1532, 25 April-31 August Another Ottoman campaign against Vienna. The castle of Kőszeg lead by Miklós Jurisics and the considerable army of Emperor Charles V by Wiener Neustadt, force the sultan's army to retreat. 1533 In Cracow, Benedek Komjáti publishes a Hungarian translation of the letters of Saint Paul, which is the first-ever Hungarian-language printed book. 1538, 24 February A secret treaty at Várad between Ferdinand I and John I, the so-called Várad Peace Treaty. 1539, 2 March John I marries Isabella of Jagiello, daughter of the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. 1540, 7 July John I fathers a son by Queen Isabelle: János Zsigmond, the future John II Sigismund. 1540, 21 or 22 July The death of János Szapolyai; his successor is the infant John II Sigismund. He is elected king of Hungary (1540-1571) by the Rákos Diet on 13 September. 1541, 29 August The Ottomans capture Buda by ruse and establish the Vilayet of Buda. 1541, 29 December In the castle of Gyalu Friar György Martinuzzi agrees with the envoys of King Ferdinand I to play Transylvania over to the Habsburgs. 1541 At Sárvár Benedek Abádi prints János Sylverster's translation of the New Testament (Új Testamentum), which is the first-ever Hungarian-language book to be brought out in Hungary. 1542, September-October With troops paid from aid received from the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian-Bohemian lands, Ferdinand I makes an abortive attempt at recapturing Buda.