commemoration

25/07/2016

A lot of long weekends to come next year in Hungary

Napi.hu writes that there will be seven long weekends in 2017 by the estimations of Officina.hu. The final list of public holidays will be unraveled as […]
15/07/2016

Desmond Child pens the official song of the 1956 memorial year

2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. For the occasion, an official song was composed by famous Cuban-Hungarian songwriter Desmond Child, and […]
29/06/2016

Bud Spencer, we never forget you! – Photos from Budapest

The Italian actor and film maker Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli) has died at the age of 86 in Rome. Yesterday at 8 pm at the […]
29/06/2016

Hungary, Poland presidents commemorate 1956 Poznan uprising – Photos – UPDATE

Poznan, June 28 (MTI) – Hungary’s President János Áder and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda held a joint press conference in western Poland’s Poznan on Tuesday, […]
25/06/2016

25th of June – The birthday of Frigyes Karinthy, the pioneer of ’six degrees of separation’

Did you know that the famous ‘six degrees of separation’ theory was originally set out by a Hungarian? This person is Frigyes Karinthy, one of the […]
23/06/2016

Celebrating Olympic Day: Hungary is the 8th most successful nation ever!

The Olympic Day is celebrated on the 23rd of June all around the world. Its aim is to get people moving and take part in sporting […]
20/06/2016

Exhibition to commemorate the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian National Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled The Secret Art of the Revolution to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, […]
18/06/2016

18th of June – The birthday of Miklós Horthy

Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June, 1868, Kenderes – 9 February, 1957, Estoril, Portugal) was the naval officer of the Austrian-Hungarian Navy, the adjutant of Franz […]
16/06/2016

Justice minister marks 1956/1989 anniversary

Budapest, June 16 (MTI) – Justice minister László Trócsányi attended a state commemoration of Imre Nagy, Hungary’s martyred prime minister, and other victims of communist retaliation […]
04/06/2016

Hungarian nationalists hold ‘anti-Trianon’ march in Budapest

Budapest, June 4 (MTI) – Hungary’s Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement (HVIM), which describes itself as “nationalist radicals”, on Saturday held an “anti-Trianon” march in downtown Budapest […]
04/06/2016

Hungary marks Day of National Cohesion – Photos

Budapest, June 4 (MTI) – The fourth of June is a day of remembrance, reckoning and gathering strength, Péter Szilágyi, deputy state secretary for policy for […]
04/06/2016

Hungary, 96 years after the Treaty of Trianon

The treaty by which two-thirds of Hungary’s territory was taken away and millions of Hungarians were separated from the motherland was signed on the 4th June, […]
04/06/2016

Quotes about the Treaty of Trianon by famous non-Hungarian people

The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement held on the 4th of June, 1920, which formally ended World War I between most of the Allies […]
04/06/2016

Trianon anniversary marked in Cohesion Day celebrations

Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian communities have become stronger not only in the Carpathian Basin but across the world in the past decade, House Speaker László Kövér said […]
02/06/2016

National Cohesion Day – Commemoration hold in Esztergom

Budapest (MTI) – Gergely Gulyás, deputy speaker of the Hungarian parliament, attended a commemoration held in Esztergom, north of Budapest, on Wednesday, marking the upcoming Day […]
17/05/2016

Roma resistance day marked at ombudsman’s office

Budapest, May 17 (MTI) – An exhibition and presentations were held at the ombudsman’s office on Tuesday to remember the unidentified Roma victims of the Holocaust […]
24/04/2016

The unknown Hungarian triumphal arch

According to origo.hu, when a triumphal arch is mentioned, people immediately associate to the Paris monument. Not so many people know about the memorial in Vác, which […]
14/04/2016

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

Árpád Lengyel used to be as famous in his time as Ignác Semmelweis, the “saviour of mothers”; but historic remembrance treated him badly, people soon forgot […]
06/04/2016

6th of April – The birthday of Mikós Ybl, the famous Hungarian architect

Miklós Ybl is one of the greatest Hungarian architects, one of the greatest masters of the 19th century, an outstanding representative of historicism, who established the […]
26/03/2016

Bartók’s 135th birth anniversary commemorated

Budapest (MTI) – A commemoration was held to mark the 135th birth anniversary of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) in the Budapest Farkasrét Cemetery on Friday. […]