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| 1541 |
| | | Suleiman I takes Buda (now Budapest), and by 1547 the Turks occupy almost the whole of Hungary | |
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| 1547 |
| | | Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I | |
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| c. 1564 |
| | | The bishop of Transylvania, Ferenc Dávid, preaches that only God the Father is divine, launching the Unitarian faith | |
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| 1687 |
| | | The Hungarian diet grants the Habsburg dynasty in Austria a hereditary right to the crown of St Stephen | |
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| 1723 |
| | | The Austrian emperor, Charles VI, agrees that Hungary shall be ruled as a separate kingdom within his empire | |
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| 1823 |
| | | 12-year-old Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt wins a reputation as a virtuoso performer | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Hungarian diet decrees that Magyar, rather than German, is to be the official language of the kingdom | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth announces the independence of Hungary and the deposition of the Habsburg dynasty | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Hungarian physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis publishes his discovery that deaths from puerperal fever can be dramatically reduced by a strict hand-washing routine | |
|  | The dissecting room
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1918 |
| | | Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition | |
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