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1926
 
    
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest       
1926
 
    
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it       
1939  March
 
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Hungary aligns itself with the Axis powers, signing Germany and Japan's Anti-Comintern Pact       
1940 November 20
 
   
Hungary, Romania and Slovakia sign the Tripartite Pact, joining the war on the German side      
1944 September
 
   
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination      
1944 October 11
 
  
Hungary signs an armistice with the USSR     
1944 December 21
 
   
With Budapest still in German hands, the Soviets set up a provisional Hungarian government, at Debrecen      
1944 December 26
 
  
The Soviet army surrounds the Hungarian capital, Budapest     
1945  January I7
 
    
After Soviet troops liberate Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg is abducted and vanishes       
1945  February 13
 
  
The Germans surrender Budapest to the Soviets after a costly siege