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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Hungary with the correct year: The Christian Kingdom of Hungary was established in ______ under King Saint Stephen, ruled by the Árpád dynasty for the following…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Hungary with the correct year: In the high medieval period, the kingdom expanded to the Adriatic coast and entered a personal union with Croatia in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Magyars with the correct year: From at least ______ BC onwards, Ugric-speakers became distinguished from the rest of the Uralic-speaking peoples.
  4. Complete the sentence about Árpád with the correct year: The dynasty descending from Árpád ruled the Kingdom of Hungary until ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Stephen I of Hungary with the correct year: Stephen survived all of his children, dying on 15 August ______, aged 62 or 63.
  6. Complete the sentence about Holy Crown of Hungary with the correct year: Through the history of Hungary, more than 50 kings were crowned with it, with the last being Charles IV in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Holy Crown of Hungary with the correct year: Since ______, the Holy Crown has been on display in the central Domed Hall of the Hungarian Parliament Building.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ladislaus I of Hungary with the correct year: Géza was proclaimed king in ______, but Solomon maintained control of the western regions of his kingdom.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ladislaus I of Hungary with the correct year: In ______, Solomon abdicated and acknowledged Ladislaus's reign, but he conspired to regain the royal crown, and Ladislaus imp…
  10. Complete the sentence about Ladislaus I of Hungary with the correct year: Ladislaus was canonized on 27 June ______ by Pope Celestine III.
  11. Complete the sentence about Coloman, King of Hungary with the correct year: Because Coloman and his younger brother Álmos were underage when their father Géza I died, their uncle Ladislaus I ascended…
  12. Complete the sentence about Coloman, King of Hungary with the correct year: The dying King Ladislaus preferred Álmos to Coloman when nominating his heir in early ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Coloman, King of Hungary with the correct year: Coloman fled from Hungary but returned around 19 July ______ when his uncle died.
  14. Complete the sentence about Coloman, King of Hungary with the correct year: According to historians Gyula Kristó and Márta Font, the brothers were born around ______, because they were mature enough t…
  15. Complete the sentence about Béla IV of Hungary with the correct year: As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential noblemen in his father's lifetim…
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: King Andrew died on 21 September ______ and Béla succeeded him.
  17. Complete the sentence about Béla IV of Hungary with the correct year: The Mongols invaded Hungary and annihilated Béla's army in the Battle of Mohi on 11 April ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Béla IV of Hungary with the correct year: Although he survived the invasion, the Mongols devastated the country before their unexpected withdrawal in March ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Golden Bull of 1222 with the correct year: The Golden Bull of ______ was a golden bull, or edict, issued by Andrew II of Hungary.
  20. Complete the sentence about Golden Bull of 1222 with the correct year: The Golden Bull was issued at the year ______ diet of Fehérvár.
  21. Complete the sentence about Golden Bull of 1222 with the correct year: The Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, strengthened the authority of the imperial prelates in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: Mary laid claim to Hungary after her brother, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, died in ______, but the Hungarian prelates and lords elec…
  23. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: Instead of abandoning her claim to Hungary, she transferred it to her son, Charles Martel, and after his death in ______, to her…
  24. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: Charles came to the Kingdom of Hungary upon the invitation of an influential Croatian lord, Paul Šubić, in August ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: Andrew III died on 14 January ______, and within four months Charles was crowned king, but with a provisional crown instead of t…
  26. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: Pope Boniface VIII acknowledged Charles as the lawful king in ______, but Charles was unable to strengthen his position against…
  27. Complete the sentence about Charles I of Hungary with the correct year: One of those oligarchs, Ladislaus III Kán, captured and imprisoned Otto of Bavaria in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Louis I of Hungary with the correct year: A ______ treaty between his father and Casimir III of Poland, Louis's maternal uncle, confirmed Louis's right to inherit the Kingd…
  29. Complete the sentence about Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: Mary died in ______, leaving Sigismund the sole ruler of Hungary.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Sigismund led the Crusade of Nicopolis but was decisively defeated by the Ottoman Empire.
  31. Complete the sentence about John Hunyadi with the correct year: In ______, Hunyadi won four victories against the Ottomans, two of which were decisive.
  32. Complete the sentence about John Hunyadi with the correct year: In March ______, Hunyadi defeated Mezid Bey and the raiding Ottoman army at the Battle of Szeben in the south part of the Kingdom of Hun…
  33. Complete the sentence about John Hunyadi with the correct year: In September ______, Hunyadi defeated a large Ottoman army of Beylerbey Şehabeddin, the Provincial Governor of Rumelia.
  34. Complete the sentence about John Hunyadi with the correct year: A royal charter of grant issued on 18 October ______ contains the first reference to John Hunyadi.
  35. Complete the sentence about Matthias Corvinus with the correct year: In ______, Matthias was imprisoned along with his older brother, Ladislaus Hunyadi, on the orders of King Ladislaus the Posthumous.
  36. Complete the sentence about Matthias Corvinus with the correct year: After the King died unexpectedly, Matthias's uncle Michael Szilágyi persuaded the Estates to unanimously proclaim the 14-year-old M…
  37. Complete the sentence about Matthias Corvinus with the correct year: Matthias signed a peace treaty with Frederick III in ______, acknowledging the Emperor's right to style himself King of Hungary.
  38. Complete the sentence about Matthias Corvinus with the correct year: The Emperor returned the Holy Crown of Hungary with which Matthias was crowned on 29 March ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August ______ near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary.
  40. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: The aftermath saw the partition of Hungary between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom in _…
  41. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: In ______, the weakened and old King Vladislaus II faced a major peasant rebellion led by György Dózsa, which was ruthlessly crushed…
  42. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After the Dózsa Rebellion, the brutal suppression of the peasants greatly aided the ______ Turkish invasion as the Hungarians were n…
  43. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mohács with the correct year: After Suleiman I came to power in Constantinople in ______, the High Porte made the Hungarians at least one and possibly two offers…
  44. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: Following the defeat of the Ottomans in the Great Turkish War, the Ottomans recognized the loss of the Ottoman Hungary by the Treaty…
  45. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: From ______, after the death of King Matthias of Hungary, royal power declined in Hungary, and the Black Army of Hungary was disbande…
  46. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: In ______, Hungary was invaded by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Hungary with the correct year: The Sultan launched an attack against the Kingdom of Hungary, defeating its smaller army at the Battle of Mohács in ______, during wh…
  48. Complete the sentence about Royal Hungary with the correct year: Under the terms of the Treaty of Karlowitz, which ended the Great Turkish War in ______, the Ottomans ceded nearly all of Ottoman Hunga…
  49. Complete the sentence about Royal Hungary with the correct year: The kingdom became a dual monarchy in ______, known as Austria-Hungary.
  50. Complete the sentence about Royal Hungary with the correct year: In ______, John Sigismund Zápolya abdicated as King of Hungary in Emperor Maximilian II's favor under the terms of the Treaty of Speyer…
  51. Complete the sentence about Royal Hungary with the correct year: The term "Royal Hungary" fell into disuse after ______, and the Habsburg kings referred to the newly enlarged country by the more forma…
  52. Complete the sentence about Francis II Rákóczi with the correct year: In ______ Antonio Carafa besieged their residence, the castle of Munkács.
  53. Complete the sentence about Francis II Rákóczi with the correct year: The Treaty of Karlowitz on 26 January ______, forced Thököly and Zrínyi into exile.
  54. Complete the sentence about Rákóczi's War of Independence with the correct year: With the help of King Louis XIV of France, anti-Habsburg rebels, led by the young nobleman Imre Thököly, rose against t…
  55. Complete the sentence about Rákóczi's War of Independence with the correct year: In ______, the Ottomans joined to help him, and he was recognised as King of Upper Hungary by Sultan Mehmed IV.
  56. Complete the sentence about Rákóczi's War of Independence with the correct year: As a direct result of this, Rákóczi was arrested on 18 April ______ and imprisoned in the fortress of Wiener Neustadt…
  57. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Maria Theresa started her 40-year reign when her father, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, died on 20 October ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of ______ and spent his entire reign securing it through interna…
  59. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was bor…
  60. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: Leopold Clement of Lorraine was first considered to be the appropriate suitor, and he was supposed to visit Vienna and meet the Archduc…
  61. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: In ______, he betrothed her to Charles of Spain and her sister, Maria Anna, to Philip of Spain.
  62. Complete the sentence about Maria Theresa with the correct year: The couple were married on 12 February ______ at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
  63. Complete the sentence about Lajos Kossuth with the correct year: In the national census of ______, in which taxpayers were counted in order to eliminate tax disparities, Kossuth assisted in the organi…
  64. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Revolution of 1848 with the correct year: After a series of serious Austrian defeats in ______, the Austrian Empire came close to the brink of collapse.
  65. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Revolution of 1848 with the correct year: In the hope of Russian military support, the young Emperor Franz Joseph kissed the hands of the Ruler of all the Russian…
  66. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Revolution of 1848 with the correct year: Until ______, the Kingdom of Hungary's administration and government remained largely untouched by the government struct…
  67. Complete the sentence about Sándor Petőfi with the correct year: Petőfi was born on the New Year's morning of ______ in Kiskőrös, a town in the Kingdom of Hungary of the Austrian Empire.
  68. Complete the sentence about Sándor Petőfi with the correct year: In ______ he walked from Debrecen to Pest to find a publisher for his poems and succeeded.
  69. Complete the sentence about István Széchenyi with the correct year: In May ______ he was transferred to Italy, and at the battle of Tolentino scattered Murat's bodyguards by a dashing cavalry charge.
  70. Complete the sentence about István Széchenyi with the correct year: In ______, he organized the Nemzeti Kaszinó, or National Casino, a forum for the patriotic Hungarian nobility.
  71. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 with the correct year: Thus Hungarian society widely considered the compromise as a betrayal of the vital Hungarian interests and the ac…
  72. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 with the correct year: In ______, Hungary was defeated and partially conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
  73. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Following the ______ reforms, the Austrian and Hungarian states were co-equal in power.
  74. Complete the sentence about Austria-Hungary with the correct year: Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I, which began with an Austro-Hungarian war declaration on the Kingdom of…
  75. Complete the sentence about Franz Joseph I of Austria with the correct year: In ______, he married his first cousin Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, with whom he had four children: Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf…
  76. Complete the sentence about Franz Joseph I of Austria with the correct year: After ruling his domains for almost 68 years, Franz Joseph died in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: In ______, she had the palace Achilleion, named after the Greek hero Achilles, built on the Greek island of Corfu.
  78. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: While travelling in Geneva in ______, Elisabeth was fatally stabbed in the heart by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Luc…
  79. Complete the sentence about Empress Elisabeth of Austria with the correct year: Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie was born on 24 December ______ in the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich, Bavaria.
  80. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: As part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary had been involved in World War I since August ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In December ______, Budapest allowed Czechoslovak troops to occupy the country's north.
  82. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In April ______, Romania and Czechoslovakia moved their armies further into Hungary, provoking a renewal of hostilities.
  83. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Trianon with the correct year: In ______, one plebiscite was permitted settling a small territorial dispute between the First Austrian Republic and Kingdom of Hun…
  84. Complete the sentence about Miklós Horthy with the correct year: In October ______, Horthy announced that Hungary had declared an armistice with the Soviets and had withdrawn from the Axis.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Soviet Republic with the correct year: Austria-Hungary's Habsburg monarchy collapsed in ______, and the independent First Hungarian Republic was formed after the…
  86. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: In Russia, Kun embraced communist ideas, and in ______ in Moscow he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party.
  87. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: In November ______ Kun returned to Hungary with Soviet support and set up the Party of Communists in Hungary.
  88. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: After his release in March ______, Kun led a successful coup d'état, formed a Communist-Social Democratic coalition government, and proclaim…
  89. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: Kun fled to Soviet Russia, where from ______ he worked as a functionary in the Communist International bureaucracy as head of the Crimean Re…
  90. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: In ______, following Joseph Stalin's death and the Soviet Union's de-Stalinization under Nikita Khrushchev, he was posthumously rehabilitate…
  91. Complete the sentence about Béla Kun with the correct year: In ______ he began to study law at Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár.
  92. Complete the sentence about Hungary in World War II with the correct year: On November 20, ______, Hungary became the fourth member to join the Axis powers when it signed the Tripartite Pact.
  93. Complete the sentence about Hungary in World War II with the correct year: After two years of war against the Soviet Union, Prime Minister Miklós Kállay began peace negotiations with the United States…
  94. Complete the sentence about Hungary in World War II with the correct year: In March ______, Hitler declared Budapest a fortress city under Operation Margarethe and to be defended to the last man.
  95. Complete the sentence about Hungary in World War II with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet advance reached Budapest which began the Battle of Budapest.
  96. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In March ______, Szálasi and three of his key henchmen were hanged.
  97. Complete the sentence about Arrow Cross Party with the correct year: The party was founded by Ferenc Szálasi in ______ as the Party of National Will.
  98. Complete the sentence about Holocaust in Hungary with the correct year: Before that, several incidents took place, including The Raid in ______, the murders of the majority of Jews in Novi Sad and sou…
  99. Complete the sentence about Holocaust in Hungary with the correct year: New restrictions against Jews were imposed soon after Germany occupied Hungary on 19 March ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Holocaust in Hungary with the correct year: The mass deportation of Hungarian Jews was the largest Holocaust killing after ______.

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