This article discusses the year 2004 in

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

Incumbents

*President –

Ferenc Mádl Ferenc Mádl (; 29 January 1931 – 29 May 2011) * : Collar of the Order of Merit (Chile), Order of Merit (25 September 2002). References External links His biography at the website of the Office of the President of the Republic of Hung ...

*Prime Minister –

Péter Medgyessy Péter Medgyessy (; born 19 October 1942) is a retired Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 27 May 2002 to 29 September 2004. On 25 August 2004, he resigned over disputes with coalition partner Alliance of Free Democr ...

(until 29 September), Ferenc Gyurcsány (starting 29 September) *Speaker –

Katalin Szili Katalin Szili (born 13 May 1956) is a Hungarian politician and jurist, a former Member of the National Assembly, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2009. Following an administrative career in the Hungarian People's Rep ...

Events

May

*May 1 - Hungary joins

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

June

*June 13 -

2004 European Parliament election in Hungary An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Hungary (European Parliament constituency), Hungary constituency was held in 2004 for the 2004–09 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European Parliament el ...

Fidesz Wins.

December

*December 5 - 2004 Hungarian dual citizenship referendum Both measures were approved by voters.

Births

Deaths

January

* 25 January –

Miklós Fehér Miklós "Miki" Fehér (; 20 July 1979 – 25 January 2004) was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his nine-year career in Portugal, representing four clubs and amassing Primeira Liga totals of 80 ga ...

, 24, Hungarian football player, cardiac arrest.

February

* 2 February –

Róbert Zimonyi Róbert Zimonyi (18 April 1918 – 2 February 2004) was a Hungarian-born American rowing coxswain. He competed for Hungary in various events at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a bronze medal in coxed pairs. After the Hungarian Revolution of ...

, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.Róbert Zimonyi
sports-reference.com * 12 February – Julius Elischer, 85, Hungarian-born Australian architect.

March

* 8 March –

János Bognár János Bognár (24 April 1914 – 8 March 2004) was a Hungarian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), official ...

, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.

April

* 13 April – Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-born American chemical engineer and scientist.

References

Years of the 21st century in Hungary 2000s in Hungary

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