The Hungarian Parliament Building is a large Neo-Gothic building on the bank of the Danube in Budapest. It was designed by the architect Imre Steindl for the Kingdom of Hungary, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and was built to mark the thousandth anniversary of the Magyar settlement of the Carpathian Basin in 1896. Work continued for many years, with the building being substantially completed at the start of the twentieth century. It has hundreds of rooms and a central dome rising to 96 metres, a number linked to the year 896. The Holy Crown of Hungary has been kept inside since 2000, and the building houses the National Assembly.
Before and after
- 17 December 1903The Wright brothers make the first powered flight
- 28 December 1903Birth of John von Neumann
- 1904Founding of Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- c. 1904Birth of Umm Kulthum
- 1904Construction of Hungarian Parliament Building
- 1904Rise of Fauvism
- 1904Founding of Belgium men's national football team
- 1904Herero and Nama genocide
- 1904Rise of Young Bosnia
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The era
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