Major Milestones in the History of Budapest
100 AD
The Romans established the settlements known as Aquincum, Contra-Aquincum, and Campona on the land that would later become Buda and Pest.
Aquincum became the largest town of the Danubian region and one of the capitals of Pannonia.
896 AD
1361
1541-1686
1873
1896
1950
During the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, Árpád, the leader of the Hungarian tribes, made a homestead on the Csepel island, south of Pest.
The first Christian King of Hungary, St. Stephen I, was crowned in 1000 AD.
Buda became the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the reign of king Louis the Great.
1541 - The Turkish occupation of Buda (and the bigger part of central Hungary).
1686 - Buda and Pest are reconquered from the Turks with the help of the
Habsburgs.
Budapest was created with the merger of three neighboring cities: Pest, Buda and Óbuda.
Budapest was one of the capitals (Wien being the other) of the Austria-Hungary Empire from 1867.
The Millennial Exhibition is organized in Budapest, celebrating the Thousand-Year-Old Hungary.
Greater Budapest is created with 22 districts and 1.6 million inhabitants, becoming the 7th metropolis of Europe at the time.
