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1947
 * February
 * Hungarian Peace Treaty is signed in Paris; Hungary returns all territories acquired since 1939.
 * May-June
 * Hungarian Communists take over the government.

1949
 * January
 * Hungary joins U.S.S.R. and other East European states in forming the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance (CEMA).
 * February
 * Cardinal Mindszenty (who had been arrested 26 December 1948) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
 * September
 * Former Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk is tried on charges of plotting with Tito against the Hungarian Government; Rajk is sentenced to death.

1952
 * August
 * Matyas Rákosi becomes Premier.

1953
 * July
 * Imre Nagy succeeds Rákosi as Premier and outlines New Course to National Assembly.
 * November
 * Rakosi becomes First Secretary of Party Central Committee.

1954
 * October
 * Janos Kadar is released from prison and made party secretary of Budapest's 13th district.

1955
 * April
 * Imre Nagy is removed as Premier and expelled from Party Central Committee following 9 March condemnation for "rightist deviation"; Andras Hegedus becomes Premier.
 * May
 * Warsaw Pact is signed by Hungary.
 * December
 * Hungary is admitted to the United Nations as part of a package deal.

1956
 * February
 * Bela Kun is rehabilitated.
 * March
 * Laszlo Rajk is rehabilitated.
 * July
 * Matyas Rákosi is relieved as Party First Secretary and replaced by Erno Gero.
 * October
 * Revolt breaks out; Imre Nagy replaced Hegedus as Premier.
 * Gero replaces Kadar as Party First Secretary; coalition government is formed with Nagy remaining as Premier; Soviet troops intervene but later withdraw from Budapest; Cardinal Mindszenty is released.
 * November
 * Hungary proclaims neutrality and withdraws unilaterally from Warsaw Pact.
 * Soviets again resort to massive armed intervention; Nagy and associates take refuge in Yugoslav Embassy; Kadar government is formed; Cardinal Mindszenty takes refuge in U.S. Legation.
 * Nagy and colleagues leave Yugoslav Embassy under safe conduct, but are immediately arrested by Soviet troops.
 * December
 * United Nations adopts resolution condemning Soviet intervention in Hungary.

1957
 * February
 * Party and government is reorganized; Kadar consolidates party power by adding 3 new members to Politburo, 2 to Secretariat, 21 to Central Committee.
 * September
 * U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning Soviet intervention in 1956; it appoints special representative to seek Hungarian compliance with earlier resolutions.
 * November
 * Government abolishes Workers Councils which had been established during the revolt.

1958
 * January
 * Kadar is replaced as Premier by Ferenc Munnich but remains Party First Secretary.
 * June
 * Ministry of Justice announces that former Premier Imre Nagy and several of his close associates have been executed.
 * December
 * Party Central Committee decides to speed up collectivization.

1959
 * November-December
 * Seventh Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, the first since May 1954, meets in Budapest; Central Committee is enlarged from 53 to 71 members, Politburo from 11 to 12; Kadar is reelected Party First Secretary.

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