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What happened to the Jews in Hungary

164 events, 1092 AD to 2015 AD

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Cities, towns and sites in Hungary

Timeline

11th century

  1. 1092 AD Synod of Szabolcs restricts Jews · Hungary
  2. c. 1095–1114 AD Coloman confines Jews to episcopal cities · Hungary

13th century

  1. 1222 AD Golden Bull strips Jews of high offices · Hungary
  2. 1233 AD Andrew II pledges badges and enforcement of anti-Jewish decrees · Hungary
  3. 1241 AD Tatar invasion brings cruelty against Jews · Hungary
  4. 1279 AD Badge on left breast required in Hungary · Hungary
  5. 1279 AD Council of Ofen orders Jews to wear a wheel-shaped patch · Budapest (Ofen), Hungary

14th century

  1. 1348 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Buda (1348) · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  2. 1349 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary · Hungary
  3. 1350 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary lifted formally · Hungary
  4. 1350 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary lifted in practice · Hungary
  5. 1354 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sopron by Louis the Great · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  6. 1360 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary · Hungary
  7. 1360 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Buda (1360) · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  8. 1360–1365 AD Debts owed to Jews canceled during their absence · Sopron, Hungary
  9. 1364 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary lifted formally · Hungary
  10. 1364 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary lifted in practice · Hungary
  11. 1365 AD Return authorized but Jewish houses transferred to Christians · Sopron, Hungary
  12. 1376 AD Expulsion of Jews from Hungary · Hungary
  13. 1392 AD Christians exempted from paying interest on Jewish loans · Hungary

15th century

  1. 1441–1450 AD Cancellation of debts owed to Jews · Hungary
  2. 1475 AD Ban on Jews accepting real estate as security · Hungary
  3. 1490 AD Attacks on Jews after the death of Matthias Corvinus · Hungary
  4. c. 1490 AD Continual persecution of Buda Jews after 1490 · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  5. 1490 AD Jews of Oedenburg imprisoned over debts · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  6. c. 1490 AD John Corvinus expels the Jews from Tata · Tata (Totis), Hungary
  7. 1490–1516 AD Heavy taxes imposed on Jews by Ladislaus II · Hungary
  8. c. 1490–1516 AD Ladislas VI cancels debts owed to Jews · Hungary
  9. 1495–1523 AD Special tax imposed on the Jews of Sopron · Sopron, Hungary
  10. c. 1500 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Pressburg, Buda and other towns · Bratislava (Pressburg), Slovakia and elsewhere

16th century

  1. 1516–1526 AD Persecution of Jews under Louis II · Hungary
  2. 1526 AD Expulsion of Jews from Ofen, Esztergom, Pressburg · Budapest (Ofen), Hungary and elsewhere
  3. 1526 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sopron "forever" · Sopron, Hungary
  4. 1526 AD Law expelling Jews from Hungary and Transylvania · Hungary and elsewhere
  5. 1526 AD Plunder of Jewish houses and destruction of cemetery and synagogue in Oedenburg · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  6. 1526–1534 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Oedenburg after Mohacs · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  7. c. 1567 AD Jews compelled to settle on Györ-Sziget Island · Győr, Hungary
  8. 1567 AD Szombathely restricted to Catholic residents · Szombathely (Steinamanger), Hungary
  9. 1578 AD Hungarian Diet imposes double taxation on Jews · Hungary

17th century

  1. 1601 AD Jews of Stuhlweissenburg slain or enslaved by imperial troops · Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Hungary
  2. 1615 AD Peddling by Jews forbidden in Oedenburg · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  3. 1630–1646 AD Diet bars Jews from administering customs · Hungary
  4. 1665 AD Restricted entry of Jews to Oedenburg permitted · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  5. 1671 AD Leopold I expels the Jews from Hapsburg territory · Hungary and elsewhere
  6. 1671 AD Leopold I revokes the expulsion decree · Hungary and elsewhere
  7. c. 1683 AD Turks plunder and enslave Jews of western Hungary · Western Hungary, Hungary
  8. 1686 AD Ban on Jewish residence in Pest · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  9. c. 1686 AD Jews of Szegedin forced to leave after Turkish withdrawal · Szeged, Hungary
  10. 1686 AD Pillage of Jewish quarter and burning of Torah scrolls in Buda · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  11. 1686–1689 AD Ban on Jewish residence in Buda · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  12. c. 1686–1783 AD Jews barred from residing in Pesth and taxed after Turkish defeat · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  13. c. 1690 AD Jews ordered removed from the office of collector · Hungary
  14. 1690 AD Vienna orders Oedenburg to expel its Jews · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  15. 1692 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Pécs · Pécs, Hungary

18th century

  1. 1712 AD Decree expelling the Jews from Buda (1712) · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  2. 1712 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Gran · Esztergom (Gran), Hungary
  3. 1714 AD Expulsion of three Jews from Szegedin · Szeged, Hungary
  4. 1719 AD Charles III grants Szegedin right to exclude Jews · Szeged, Hungary
  5. 1720 AD Attack and plunder of Jewish homes in Buda · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  6. 1735 AD Pesth decrees no Jew may live or settle in the city · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  7. 1740 AD Jews of surrounding counties allowed into Oedenburg · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  8. 1744 AD Malke-geld · Hungary
  9. 1746 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Ofen · Budapest (Ofen), Hungary
  10. 1749 AD Toleration-tax imposed on Hungarian Jews under threat of expulsion · Hungary
  11. 1760 AD Repeated increases of the Jewish toleration-tax · Hungary
  12. c. 1781 AD Free royal cities of Hungary exclude Jews, including Szeged · Szeged, Hungary
  13. 1783 AD Jewish residence in Buda permitted again · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  14. 1783 AD Jews allowed to settle in royal cities · Hungary
  15. 1783 AD Joseph II permits Jews to resettle in Pest · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  16. 1783 AD Joseph II's decree opens Pesth to Jewish settlement · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  17. 1783 AD Joseph II's regulatio relaxes restrictions on Hungarian Jews · Hungary
  18. 1787 AD Jews required to adopt German surnames · Hungary
  19. 1788 AD Jews permitted to resettle in Pécs · Pécs, Hungary
  20. 1788 AD Joseph II restricts Jewish trade in Pesth · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  21. 1789 AD Jews ordered to perform military service · Hungary
  22. 1789–1803 AD Authorities obstruct construction of Szeged synagogue · Szeged, Hungary
  23. 1790 AD Jews of Pesth forbidden to peddle · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  24. 1790 AD Restrictive application of De Judaeis law in Pest · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  25. 1791 AD Diet enacts the law "De Judæis" · Hungary

19th century

  1. 1803 AD Restrictive conditions on building Szegedin synagogue · Szeged, Hungary
  2. 1808 AD Decree forbidding foreign Jews to settle in Pesth · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  3. 1813 AD Fines for renting dwellings to Jews in Oedenburg · Sopron (Oedenburg), Hungary
  4. 1813 AD Restriction of Jewish house purchases to a tiny area in Szeged · Szeged, Hungary
  5. 1813–1859 AD Boundary restricting Jewish house ownership in Szegedin · Szeged, Hungary
  6. 1830 AD Private and association synagogues dissolved in Pesth · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  7. c. 1835–1848 AD Toleration-tax on Jews abolished under Ferdinand V · Hungary
  8. 1840 AD Emancipation of Hungarian Jews opens Szombathely to Jews · Szombathely, Hungary
  9. 1840 AD Freedom of residence authorized for Jews in Sopron · Sopron, Hungary
  10. 1840 AD Law of 1840 grants Jews unrestricted entry to free cities · Hungary
  11. 1840 AD Residence restrictions on Jews abrogated in Pest · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  12. 1840 AD Royal decree worsens Jewish position in Hungary · Hungary
  13. 1846 AD Abolition of the chamber dues · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  14. 1846 AD Toleration-tax abolished in Hungary · Hungary
  15. 1848 AD Attack and plunder of Jews in Szombathely during the 1848 revolution · Szombathely, Hungary
  16. 1848 AD Attacks on Jews in Stuhlweissenburg and Steinamanger · Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Hungary
  17. 1848 AD Guild demands for expulsion of Buda Jews · Budapest (Buda), Hungary
  18. 1848 AD Mob attack on the Jewish quarter of Pest · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  19. 1848 AD Pesth Jews attacked and plundered at Passover · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  20. 1848 AD Synagogue desecrated at Steinamanger · Szombathely (Steinamanger), Hungary
  21. 1849 AD Emancipation of Hungarian Jews at Szeged · Szeged, Hungary
  22. c. 1849 AD Heavy contribution levied on Pest and Obuda Jews · Budapest (Pest), Hungary
  23. 1849 AD Hungarian Diet emancipates the Jews at Szegedin · Szeged, Hungary
  24. 1849 AD Punishment and executions of Jews in Hungarian towns by Haynau · Kecskemét, Hungary and elsewhere
  25. 1849–1850 AD War-taxes imposed on Hungarian Jews after the Revolution · Hungary
  26. c. 1850–1859 AD Judicial and economic restrictions on Jews in the 1850s · Hungary
  27. 1858 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Sopron · Sopron, Hungary
  28. 1862 AD Municipal council blocks Jewish cemetery land purchase · Sopron, Hungary
  29. 1867 AD Emancipation of Jews in Hungary · Hungary
  30. 1881 AD Tiszaeszlar blood libel · Tiszaeszlár, Hungary
  31. 1882 AD Tisza-Eszlár blood libel · Tiszaeszlár, Hungary
  32. 1882 AD Tiszaeszlár blood libel · Hungary
  33. 1887 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Nagy-Kanizsa · Nagykanizsa, Hungary
  34. 1896 AD Judaism legally recognized as a religion in Hungary · Hungary

20th century

  1. 1919 AD White Terror (Hungary) · Hungary
  2. 1920 AD Numerus clausus law limits Jews in higher education · Hungary
  3. 1928 AD Numerus clausus amended and Jewish representation in Upper House · Hungary
  4. 1938–1939 AD Anti-Jewish laws deprive Pécs Jews of livelihoods · Pécs, Hungary
  5. 1938–1939 AD First two major anti-Jewish laws in Hungary · Hungary
  6. 1940 AD Forced labor units for Jews established · Hungary
  7. 1941 AD Expulsion of about 20,000 Jews to Galicia · Hungary and elsewhere
  8. 1941 AD Third Jewish Law · Hungary
  9. 1942–1944 AD Jewish men from Györ sent to labor camps · Győr, Hungary
  10. 1943 AD Jews eliminated from public life; numerus clausus in economy · Hungary
  11. 1944 AD Anti-Jewish decrees and confiscations under Sztójay · Hungary
  12. 1944 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Public · Hungary
  13. 1944 AD Arrow Cross murders of Jews in Budapest · Budapest, Hungary
  14. 1944 AD Budapest Ghetto · Budapest, Hungary
  15. 1944 AD Concentration of Budapest Jews in yellow star buildings · Budapest, Hungary
  16. 1944 AD Confinement of Sopron's Jews in a ghetto · Sopron, Hungary
  17. 1944 AD Curfew imposed on Budapest Jews · Budapest, Hungary
  18. 1944 AD Death march of Budapest Jews to Hegyeshalom · Budapest, Hungary
  19. 1944 AD Decision to ghettoize and deport Hungarian Jews · Hungary
  20. 1944 AD Deportation of Jews from towns around Budapest · Kispest, Hungary
  21. 1944 AD Deportation of Makó Jews to Auschwitz · Makó, Hungary
  22. 1944 AD Deportation of Nagykanizsa Jewish men to Auschwitz · Nagykanizsa, Hungary
  23. 1944 AD Deportation of Sopron Jews to Auschwitz · Sopron, Hungary
  24. 1944 AD Deportation of Szeged Jews to Auschwitz and Austria · Szeged, Hungary
  25. 1944 AD Deportation of Szombathely Jews to Auschwitz · Szombathely, Hungary
  26. 1944 AD Deportation of remaining Nagykanizsa Jews to Auschwitz · Nagykanizsa, Hungary
  27. 1944 AD Deportation of the Jews of Györ to Auschwitz · Győr, Hungary
  28. 1944 AD Deportation of the Jews of Sátoraljaújhely to Auschwitz · Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary
  29. 1944 AD Forced march of Budapest Jews to the Reich border · Budapest, Hungary
  30. 1944 AD Ghetto established in Budapest Are Imprisoned · Budapest, Hungary
  31. 1944 AD Ghetto established in Hungary · Hungary
  32. 1944 AD Ghettoization of Szombathely Jews · Szombathely, Hungary
  33. 1944 AD Ghettoization of provincial Jews · Hungary
  34. 1944 AD Ghettoization of the Jews of Makó · Makó, Hungary
  35. 1944 AD Ghettoization of the Jews of Pécs · Pécs, Hungary
  36. 1944 AD Ghettoization of the Jews of Sátoraljaújhely · Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary
  37. 1944 AD Internment and deportation of Jews arrested at German occupation · Budapest, Hungary
  38. 1944 AD Jews of Szeged confined to ghetto · Szeged, Hungary
  39. 1944 AD Operation Panzerfaust · Hungary
  40. 1944 AD Yellow badge ordered for Hungarian Jews · Hungary
  41. 1944 AD Yellow star decree for the Jews of Budapest · Budapest, Hungary
  42. 1944–1945 AD Arrow-Cross terror and ghettoization of Budapest Jews · Budapest, Hungary
  43. 1945 AD Postwar Hungary abolishes anti-Jewish legislation · Hungary
  44. 1946 AD Kunmadaras pogrom · Kunmadaras, Hungary
  45. 1946 AD Miskolc pogrom · Hungary
  46. 1949 AD Zionist organization disbanded and leaders imprisoned · Hungary
  47. 1951–1953 AD Expulsion of Jews from Budapest and cities to the provinces · Budapest, Hungary
  48. c. 1960–1969 AD Demolition of the Makó synagogue · Makó, Hungary
  49. 1992 AD Terrorist attack on bus of Soviet Jewish immigrants in Hungary · Hungary
  50. 1992–1993 AD Attacks on Jews by skinhead-linked nationalists in Hungary · Hungary

21st century

  1. 2015 AD In January 2015, the Hungarian court ordered far-right on-line newspaper… · Hungary

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