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1947
- February
- Hungarian Peace Treaty is signed in Paris; Hungary returns all territories acquired since 1939.
- May-June
- Hungarian Communists take over the government.
1949
- January
- Hungary joins U.S.S.R. and other East European states in forming the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance (CEMA).
- February
- Cardinal Mindszenty (who had been arrested 26 December 1948) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- September
- Former Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk is tried on charges of plotting with Tito against the Hungarian Government; Rajk is sentenced to death.
1952
- August
- Matyas Rákosi becomes Premier.
1953
- July
- Imre Nagy succeeds Rákosi as Premier and outlines New Course to National Assembly.
- November
- Rakosi becomes First Secretary of Party Central Committee.
1954
- October
- Janos Kadar is released from prison and made party secretary of Budapest's 13th district.
1955
- April
- Imre Nagy is removed as Premier and expelled from Party Central Committee following 9 March condemnation for "rightist deviation"; Andras Hegedus becomes Premier.
- May
- Warsaw Pact is signed by Hungary.
- December
- Hungary is admitted to the United Nations as part of a package deal.
1956
- February
- Bela Kun is rehabilitated.
- March
- Laszlo Rajk is rehabilitated.
- July
- Matyas Rákosi is relieved as Party First Secretary and replaced by Erno Gero.
- October
- Revolt breaks out; Imre Nagy replaced Hegedus as Premier.
- Gero replaces Kadar as Party First Secretary; coalition government is formed with Nagy remaining as Premier; Soviet troops intervene but later withdraw from Budapest; Cardinal Mindszenty is released.
- November
- Hungary proclaims neutrality and withdraws unilaterally from Warsaw Pact.
- Soviets again resort to massive armed intervention; Nagy and associates take refuge in Yugoslav Embassy; Kadar government is formed; Cardinal Mindszenty takes refuge in U.S. Legation.
- Nagy and colleagues leave Yugoslav Embassy under safe conduct, but are immediately arrested by Soviet troops.
- December
- United Nations adopts resolution condemning Soviet intervention in Hungary.
1957
- February
- Party and government is reorganized; Kadar consolidates party power by adding 3 new members to Politburo, 2 to Secretariat, 21 to Central Committee.
- September
- U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning Soviet intervention in 1956; it appoints special representative to seek Hungarian compliance with earlier resolutions.
- November
- Government abolishes Workers Councils which had been established during the revolt.
1958
- January
- Kadar is replaced as Premier by Ferenc Munnich but remains Party First Secretary.
- June
- Ministry of Justice announces that former Premier Imre Nagy and several of his close associates have been executed.
- December
- Party Central Committee decides to speed up collectivization.
1959
- November-December
- Seventh Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, the first since May 1954, meets in Budapest; Central Committee is enlarged from 53 to 71 members, Politburo from 11 to 12; Kadar is reelected Party First Secretary.
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