Sources: Index.hu
Hungary suddenly cancels a meeting between Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on 8 July in Budapest, after she planned to discuss Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's uncoordinated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. 2024-07-6
The National Assembly selects Tamás Sulyok as the next President of Hungary. 2024-02-26
Katalin Novák takes office as the first female President of Hungary. 2022-05-10
At a rally in central Budapest, prime minister Viktor Orbán accuses the United States, the European Union, and philanthropist George Soros of trying to meddle in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The accusations come as opinion polls show Orbán's alliance Fidesz–KDNP and the rival United Opposition polling neck-and-neck. 2021-10-23
American chess player Abhimanyu Mishra becomes the youngest Grandmaster (GM) in the world, at age 12, after defeating Indian GM Leon Luke Mendonca in Budapest. 2021-06-30
President Janos Ader receives his first dose of Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine. 2021-02-26
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirms that Steven Dick, a 37-year-old diplomat to their mission in Budapest, has died from COVID-19. 2020-03-25
The "Hableány", a sightseeing river cruise ship on the Danube in Budapest, capsizes and sinks with 34 South Korean tourists on board. At least seven people are killed and 19 remain missing. 2019-05-29
Hundreds of people, tired of waiting for promised transportation, broke out from Hungary's first migrant holding center near the Serbian border, past police overwhelmed by their numbers, to start the march north toward Budapest. The asylum seekers - migrants, now accompanied by groups of police, advanced along the edge of the main highway to the capital. 2015-09-7
Three people are killed in a stampede at a three-storey nightclub in the Hungarian capital Budapest. 2011-01-16