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THE HIST OR Y OF BUD APEST  37

1970 Opening of a new metro line
1990 Hungarian coat of
arms, adopted on
October 1989 Republic 3 July 1990
of Hungary is
proclaimed once more. 1991 Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
The national emblem Russian army leaves Hungary
is changed
1994 Election won by the
Hungarian Socialist Party
2010 Fidesz party wins
1998 Election won landslide majority in
by the centre-right Fidesz elections. Viktor Orbán
party, first premiership of is elected prime minister
Viktor Orbán for his second term
2002 Election
won by the 2012 New Constitution
1981 Director adopted. The official
István Szabó Hungarian name of the country
receives an Oscar Socialist Party. is shortened to
for his film Mephisto Imre Kertész Magyarország (Hungary)
receives the
Nobel prize for
Literature 2014 Fidesz is re-elected
February 1989 with a landslide majority
Round-table talks 2007 Hungary
between opposition joins the
parties and ruling Schengen
socialist government
open-borders
agreement
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
1993 Pope John Paul II
1987 UNESCO places the historic visits Hungary
Castle District and the Banks of
the Danube on its list of world
heritage sights
2005 László Sólyom becomes
president of Hungary
June 1989 Ceremonial funeral for
Imre Nagy and rehabilitation for
other leaders of 1956 Uprising 2004 Hungary
becomes a
September 1989 member of
Hungary opens its the EU
borders to allow refu-
gees to flee from East
Germany to the West
1990 The Democratic Hungarian
Forum wins free elections. József
Antall becomes the first prime
minister to be elected in a
democratic process; Árpád Göncz
is elected president
1991 Václav Havel, József Antall and Lech Walesa sign
an agreement in Visegrád (see p168) between
Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland

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