Hungarian Nationalists
State · 1849–1957 CE · at its largest around 1849 CE
Hungarian revolutionaries who fought for independence from Habsburg rule in the 1848–49 revolution, led by Lajos Kossuth, until Austrian and Russian forces crushed them.
On its lands while it lasted
- Gregor Mendel (1822 CE – 1884 CE): Augustinian friar and later abbot in Brno, Moravia, whose experiments on pea plants revealed the basic rules of heredity. His 1866 paper was largely ignored until its rediscovery in 1900.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 CE – 1939 CE): Austrian neurologist in Vienna who founded psychoanalysis. His The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in 1899. He fled the Nazis to London in 1938.
- Mendel's laws of inheritance (1866 CE): Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar in Brno, published the results of his pea-plant experiments in 1866. They became the foundation of genetics after their rediscovery in 1900.
- Budapest (c. 1867 CE): Capital of Hungarian Nationalists (1867–1918), Austria-Hungary (1868–1918), Hungarian Republic (1919–1943), and 1 more.
- Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867 CE): The 1867 agreement created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, with Franz Joseph as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and separate governments in Vienna and Budapest.
- Josip Broz Tito (1892 CE – 1980 CE): Leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II and ruler of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.
- The Kiss (Klimt) (c. 1908 CE): Gustav Klimt's gold-leaf painting of an embracing couple, completed in Vienna around 1908, is the best-known work of the Vienna Secession.
- Interpol (1923 CE): Founded in Vienna in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission, the organisation helps police forces of its member countries cooperate across borders. Its headquarters has been in Lyon since 1989.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (1956 CE): A nationwide revolt against Hungary's communist government and Soviet control broke out in Budapest in October 1956. Soviet forces crushed it in November.
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