World history

World History stories covering key events, empires, wars and civilizations shaping our modern world.

Hungary’s biggest dinosaur park is now open

May 21, 2016

Young Szekler men are accused of committing terrorist acts

May 21, 2016

Hungary, Moldova sign cultural cooperation work plan

May 19, 2016

Hungarian president inaugurates WW1 memorial in Italy

May 17, 2016

Scythian and Avar era finds excavated near Kecskemét

May 17, 2016

Hungary’s foreign minister rejects Clinton remarks over Hungary’s ‘Putinisation’ – VIDEO

May 17, 2016

Hungary parliament speaker visits Hiroshima

May 17, 2016

Hungarian president to inaugurate WWI monument on Asinara island

May 16, 2016

The Hungarian warriors defeated the Slovakians – VIDEO

May 11, 2016

UN to lift secrecy on 1956 related documents

May 7, 2016

Unicum’s new bottles honouring Ferenc Puskás

May 3, 2016

An Italian club will have a stadium named after Ferenc Puskás

May 1, 2016

Hungary’s supreme court to look into undoing post-1956 death sentences

April 25, 2016

Communist-era secret military files could soon be declassified

April 25, 2016

Memorial of forced labourers inaugurated in central Budapest – Update

April 17, 2016

Árpád Lengyel, the Hungarian doctor who saved the survivors of Titanic

April 14, 2016

Book recommendation: The most beautiful women in history

April 13, 2016

Nostalgic Hungarian brands that have almost disappeared

April 10, 2016

Compensation for 1945 Czechoslovakia expellees on agenda

April 10, 2016

Andris, the world’s smallest newspaper boy at the turn of the century

April 9, 2016

Plaque unveiled commemorating Victor Vasarely

April 9, 2016

Deputy PM remembers late Polish President Lech Kaczynski

April 8, 2016

High Polish state award to be presented to Hungarians composing Katyn Requiem

April 8, 2016

10 reasons why it is worth visiting the baths of Budapest

April 6, 2016

Turul, the mystical Hungarian mythological bird

April 4, 2016

The hung maul nation, who spoke Hungarian and lived in certain parts of Tibet

April 2, 2016

Biszku, who played a leading role in the retaliation that followed the 1956 revolution, dies aged 94

April 1, 2016

Islamic community marks centenary of Hungary’s recognition of Islam

March 30, 2016

Easter superstitions in Hungary

March 27, 2016

What will Budapest be like in 2050?

March 26, 2016

Veteran politician Pozsgay dies

March 26, 2016

25th of March – The birthday of Béla Bartók, the world-famous Hungarian composer

March 25, 2016

Hungary’s Embassy in Washington, DC celebrates Hungary’s national holiday

March 24, 2016

1956 memorial unveiled in Uzhhorod

March 19, 2016

Presidents celebrate Hungarian-Polish Friendship Day – Photos

March 19, 2016

Celebrating somewhere else – 15th of March in Uganda

March 15, 2016

March 15 – National flag hoisted by Parliament

March 15, 2016

Orbán addressed a letter to Hungarians in advance of the March 15 commemoration of the 1848-49 revolution

March 14, 2016

Deputy speaker calls for Slovak-Hungarian lawmaker’s rehabilitation

March 13, 2016

March 15 commemorations of 1848-49 freedom fight to take place in over 20 countries

March 11, 2016