Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)
Chronology
12th March 1694 26th September 1695 6th May 1696 22nd June 1697 5th June 1698 12th August 1699 1701 23rd October 1703 29th April 1705 2nd August 1716 6th September 1724 January 1730 7th August 1731 1738-1742 23rd November 1744 1744 13th May 1749 18th September 1752 1760 31st July 1766 1767 1772 20th February 1773 1776 The royal city of Pest is granted permission to hold four national fairs a year The boundaries between the City of Pest and the neighbouring estates are demarcated. The Land Register of the Hungarian Treasury is set up in Buda The City of Buda is granted permission to hold national fairs Foundation of the Merchant Corporation of Buda Leopold I grants Buda exemption from the “thirtieth” tax Foundation of the Merchant Corporation of Pest The Pest City Council builds a pontoon-bridge across the Danube Leopold I grants new charters to Buda and Pest First election of officials in Pest after the granting of the new charter The foundation stone laid of the Army Pensioners’ Hospital (today the Budapest Town Hall) King Charles III transfers the Hungarian Supreme Court and the Royal High Court from Pozsony to Pest. The printing press of János Länderer is set up in Buda, the first printing press since liberation from Turkish rule Publication of the Ofnerischner Mercurius, the first (Germanlanguage) newspaper of Buda A statute for the municipal administration of Pest is issued The greatest plague epidemic of the eighteenth century ravages the capital Building of the Trinitarian Monastery of Kiscell is begun (it houses today part of the Budapest Historical Museum) Completion of the church of the Pauline Order (today the University Church) The foundation stone is laid of the Royal Castle of Buda (rebuilt between 1745 and 1771) Beginning of a regular mail-coach service between Buda and Vienna First German-language theatrical performances in Buda, in the Vörös Sün (Red Hedgehog) Inn (No. 3 Hess András tér in the 1st district) Opening of the pontoon-bridge between Buda and Pest Óbuda becomes a market town of the Hungarian Treasury Foundation of the University Library The office of mayor created in Pest Foundation of the Valero silk mill, the first factory in the capital, for long the largest. This mill functioned longer than any of the eighteenth-century factories and did not go out of production until 1851 139
