The following lists events in the year

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Incumbents

* Regent:

Miklós Horthy Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya ( hu, Vitéz nagybányai Horthy Miklós; ; English: Nicholas Horthy; german: Nikolaus Horthy Ritter von Nagybánya; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957), was a Hungarian admiral and dictator who served as the Regent o ...

(from 1 March) *

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Károly Huszár Károly Huszár de Sárvár (born as Károly Schorn, 1882–1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister and acting Head of State of Hungary from November 1919 to March 1920. His tenure coincided with a period of political i ...

(until 1 March) *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

(until 15 March),

Sándor Simonyi-Semadam Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (23 March 1864 – 4 June 1946) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for a few months in 1920. He signed the Treaty of Trianon after World War I on 4 June 1920. By this treaty, Hungary lost a considerab ...

(15 March - 19 July ),

Pál Teleki Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a un ...

(from 19 July) * Speaker of the National Assembly: István Rakovszky (from 18 February)

Events

January

* January 5 – Albert Apponyi's Hungarian delegation arrives to Paris * January 15 – Paris Peace Conference presents peace terms to the Hungarian delegation * January 16 – Albert Apponyi speaks in front of the Paris Peace Conference * January 25 – 1920 Hungarian parliamentary election begin. It can't be held in Romanian occupied Tiszántúl, and Serbian occupied Baranya and Bácska

February

* February 10 – Allied Military Mission leaves Budapest * February 25 – Romania begins withdrawal from Tiszántúl * February 27 – Law 1920:I, the assembly will elect a provisional regent until the question of the head of state is settled

March

* Hungary begins secret negotiations with the new French government of Millerand for the re-negotiation of the Trianon borders in exchange for economic concessions to the French. * March 1 ** Hungary restores the Monarchy ** Miklós Horthy elected as regent ** French troops withdraw from Szeged * March 15 – Simonyi-Semadam Government formed * March 30 – Romania finishes withdrawal from Tiszántúl

May

* May 12 – Hungary presents its border proposal to the French government: they ask for all Hungarian-populated areas along the Trianon borders, referendums in the Banat and Burgerland, Carpathean Ruthenia and Eastern Slovakia for "economic reasons". The proposal was unacceptable for the French party, leading to the end of the secret negotiations. * May 18 – Minister of the Interior Mihály Dömötör banns freemasonry by decree

June

* June 4 – Treaty of Trianon signed * June 20 – Transport workers' unions declare an international boycott on Hungary * June 28-30 – Legitimist paramilitaries raid Fürstenfeld for weapons * June 31 – Prellenkirchen raided for weapons

July

* July 19 – First Teleki Government formed * July 26 – Anti-semitic paramilitary attacks guests at ''Club Kávéház'', kill 2 people

August

* August 1 – Hungarian uprising in Szomoróc (Somorovci) * August 11 – Czechoslovakia and

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forms a collective defense arrangement against Hungary

September

* September 26 – ''Numerus Clausus'' quota passed, limiting nationalities in university admissions to their share in the population. In practice, this limits the admission of Jewish students.

October

* October 20 – Order of Vitéz founded

November

* November 10 – Murder of police officer Soltra József * November 11 – The government cracks down on far-right paramilitaries in Hotel Britannia and Ehman-telepGusztáv 1992, pp. 347

References

External links

* Bartha, Á. (2019). Az utolsó csepp a pohárban. Soltra József rendőr meggyilkolása. ''Csoportosulás, lázadás és a társadalom terrorizálása. Rendészettörténeti Tanulmányok'', ''2'', 28–44. * Gusztáv, G. (1992). ''A forradalmak kora: Magyarország története: 1918-1920''. Magyar Szemle Társaság. * MacMillan, M. (2003). ''Paris 1919: six months that changed the world.'' Random House trade paperback ed. New York, Random House. * Murber, Ibolya (2021). ''Nyugat-Magyarországtól Burgenlandig, 1918-1924''. Budapest, BTK Történettudományi Intézet * Ormos, M. (1998). Magyarország a két világháború korában, 1914-1945 (Vol. 6). Csokonai Kiadó. * Várdy, Stephen Béla (1997). Historical Dictionary of Hungary. The Scarecrow Press * Zsiga, Tibor (1989). ''Horthy ellen, a királyért''. * https://1914-1918.btk.mta.hu/terkepek?start=16 {{Year in Europe, 1920 1920s in Hungary Years of the 20th century in Hungary