Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)
Chronology
3rd November 1777 1777 9th November 1781 19th September 1782 20th July 1784 1784 1785 16th October 1787 1788 6th June 1790 25th October 1793 1794 20th May 1795 8th March 1800 7th May 1802 November 1805 1st May 1809 9th February 1812 25th-28th October 1814 Teaching begins at the university, transferred from Nagyszombat to Buda Water brought to the Castle area of Buda Street oil-lighting introduced in Buda Publication of the first (German-language) newspaper in Pest Opening of the Institutum Geometriáim, attached to the university for the training of engineers The university is transferred from Buda to Pest Emperor and King Joseph II transfers the Council of the Royal Hungarian Governor-General, the Royal Hungarian Treasury and the Supreme Army Command from Pozsony to Buda Foundation of the Goldberger Textile Mill of Óbuda. This is still one of the most important textile mills in the capital Completion of the first Rókus (Saint Roch) Hospital The City of Pest and its boundaries are demarcated, and the first city map is prepared Opening of the Buda Castle Theatre Publication of the Magyar Mercurius, the first Hungarianlanguage newspaper in Pest Meeting of the Diet in Buda First Hungarian-language performance in the Buda Castle Theatre First performance in Pest of Mozart’s opera, the Magic Flute Publication in Pest of Uránia, the first Hungarian literary periodical Execution of the leaders of the Hungarian Jacobin movement in the field of Buda which has since been known as Vérmező (The Field of Blood) Performance of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation in the Royal Palace of Buda, conducted by the composer Beethoven gives a concert at the Castle Theatre The gift of Count Ferenc Széchényi from which the Hungarian National Széchényi Library (Act XXIV of 1807) and the Hungarian National Museum (Act VIII of 1808) are to be founded The Royal Hungarian Chancellory is transferred from Vienna to Pest Preparation of the “Plan for the Embellishment of Pest” The imperial and royal court flees to Buda from the armies of Napoleon Opening of the Royal City Theatre (the German Theatre of Pest) Meeting of Emperor and King Francis I, Czar Alexander I and King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia in Pest-Buda 140
