Budapest was created in 1873 by the merger of three cities, Buda, Óbuda and Pest, which lay on the two banks of the Danube. The union made a single capital for the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which had been formed through the Compromise of 1867. The Chain Bridge, opened in 1849, had already joined Buda and Pest, and the following decades brought rapid growth, with the large Parliament building and the grand boulevards. The millennial celebrations of 1896 marked a thousand years since the Magyar settlement and included the opening of the first underground railway on the European continent. Budapest became one of the biggest cities in Europe and is known today for its architecture and thermal baths.
Before and after
- 20 January 1873Birth of Johannes V. Jensen
- 20 March 1873Birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 3 July 1873Discovery of 10P/Tempel
- 11 October 1873League of the Three Emperors
- 17 November 1873Founding of Budapest
- 1874Founding of Universal Postal Union
- 25 January 1874Birth of William Somerset Maugham
- 8 March 1874Death of Millard Fillmore
- from 15 April 1874 to 15 May 1874Brooks-Baxter War
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The era
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