Wreckage of Unique Fighter Plane to Be Recovered from Lake Balaton In early October, experts will begin recovering the Hungarian Messerschmitt fighter plane that crashed into Lake Balaton in the Balatonakarattya... 2023.10.09.
Commemoration of the Heroes Who Gave their Lives for Independence A 19th century portrait of the 13 martyrs of Arad. 174 years ago, on October 6, 1849, thirteen officers of... 2023.10.06.
Vladimir Putin Reacts to the 1956 Revolution Textbook Scandal The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was not a "color revolution," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary session of the... 2023.10.06.
Poland and Hungary: Friendship in a Perfect Storm The below article is an attempt on behalf of Polish and Hungarian journalists and newspaper editors to reinvigorate the dialogue... 2023.09.25.
“Nation and Europe.” A New Book by former Foreign Minister János Martonyi On September 18, the Danube Institute organized a joint book launch with Helena History Press, presenting Nation and Europe: In... 2023.09.19.
President Putin Calls 1956 and 1968 Soviet Interventions a “Mistake” Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass... 2023.09.13.
Ancestors’ Day: Remembering Our Arrival in Europe "The spirit of this gathering is to remember the ancestors who made the Carpathian Basin our homeland and to whom... 2023.09.08.
Wartime Leader Continues to Divide the Nation and Politics A memorial service for Miklós Horthy was held in Kenderes, eastern Hungary, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the reburial of... 2023.09.06.
Unique Artifact from the Conquest Era Found in Pest County The recently found sabretache plate Once again, a tomb with a sabretache plate from the age of the Hungarian Conquest... 2023.09.05.
Miklós Bethlen (1642-1716): Pragmatism and the Dream of Peace in Transylvania At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, he sat in the highest offices and in prisons. Miklós Bethlen,... 2023.09.04.
84 Years since the Outbreak of History-Shaping World War II German and Hungarian soldiers in Budapest, October 1944. On September 1, 1939, World War II broke out, killing some 60... 2023.09.01.
Historical Reparation for Hungary’s Knight-King The bronze statue of Saint King Ladislaus, the work of sculptor Árpád Deák, has been placed on its pedestal in... 2023.08.30.
Family and Cultural Events Begin in Szolnok The Szolnok Day series of events, running until Saturday, will offer family and cultural programs, exhibitions, and concerts in the... 2023.08.30.
History Comes to Life in Fiľakovo Castle History comes to life in the Castle of Fiľakovo (a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovakia, historically... 2023.08.30.
Marosvásárhely Becomes the Cultural Capital of the Carpathian Basin The tenth edition of the Vásárhelyi Forgatag (Whirl of 'Vásárhely) will make Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely in historic Hungary) the cultural... 2023.08.29.
Remembering Hungary’s First Known Poet, Janus Pannonius 589 years ago today, Janus Pannonius, the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary, was born.... 2023.08.29.
State Secretary Rejects Russian Denigration of the Events of 1956 In 1956, the Hungarian people rebelled against the communist dictatorship, this is a clear and obvious fact, not a matter... 2023.08.29.
Black Ribbon Day – Remembering the Victims of Totalitarian Dictatorships It was on this day in 1939 that the Stalinist Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a... 2023.08.23.
First “Bread of the American Hungarians” Baked in Celebration of Hungary’s Founding Day Celebrating Hungary’s Founding Day at the Kossuth House DC in Washington D.C. Hungarians living in and around Washington, D.C., greeted... 2023.08.21.
Appreciating Bread and Agricultural Workers Bread on the Feast of Crafts on Hungarys Founding Day. Nowadays, in the shadow of war and vulnerable to often... 2023.08.21.
King Stephen’s Legacy Reminds Us That We Have a Lot to Lose President of the Republic Katalin Novák at the flag-raising during the St Stephen's Day state ceremony in Kossuth Square, Budapest,... 2023.08.20.
