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During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when he was 20, he left his home and family and escaped across the border into Austria, where he eventually made his way to the United States in 1957.
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During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.
* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".
During the Ottoman invasion of Central Europe ( between late 14th century and circa 1700 ) Hungarian soldiers protected fortresses and launched light cavalry attacks against the Turks ( see Hungarian Hussars ).
* During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest, and through the fall of Communism in 1989, protesters often attacked and took down sculptures and images of Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR.
During the Berlin Blockade, the Uprising of 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Rudolph-Wilde-Platz in front of the building became a gathering place for protest rallies.
* Johanna Granville, The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
During 1919, immediately after the end of World War I, the university was moved to Budapest, where it stayed until 1921, after which it was moved to the Hungarian city of Szeged.
During the Second World War, Taylor served in the Home Guard and befriended émigré statesmen from Eastern Europe, such as the former Hungarian President Count Mihály Károlyi and the Czechoslovak President Dr. Edvard Beneš.
During the next two centuries they were fully assimilated to the Hungarian population, their language disappeared, but they preserved their Jassic identity and their regional autonomy until 1876.
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Croatia sided with the Austrians, Ban Josip Jelačić helping to defeat the Hungarian forces in 1849, and ushering in a period of Germanization policy.
During the brief period of the Hungarian Soviet in 1919 he taught in a teacher training school thanks to the patronage of his friend and mentor György Lukács, whose political conversion to Communism he did not, however, share.
During this period the Palace became the symbol of independent Hungarian statehood, and, as a residential centre it had a political significance of it own.
During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, elements of the insurgents tracked down and killed both known and suspected ÁVH officers and informants.
During and after the siege of the Hungarian Working People's Party headquarters ( in Republic Square, Köztársaság tér ), some members of the ÁVH were lynched, a fact later extensively used in party propaganda to back up the claim that the revolution was of a " fascistic, anti-Semitic and reactionary " nature.
During the Holocaust, Teitelbaum and his wife were rescued in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Transylvania as a result of a deal between a Hungarian Zionist official, Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann.
During Hungarian civil war of 1292 he has received province of Slavonia from titular Hungarian king Charles Martel of Anjou which has not controlled Slavonia.
During the Revolutions of 1848 – 1849, the Banat was respectively held by Serbian and Hungarian troops.
During the Hungarian Axis occupation, in the 1942 raid, 215 inhabitants of the town were murdered by Hungarian forces, of whom 111 were men, 72 women, 13 children, and 19 old people.
During Ottoman conquest, local Hungarian population left this area, which was then populated by Serbs who came from other parts of the Ottoman Empire.
During the establishment of Ottoman authority, local Hungarian population left from this region.
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* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.
During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone.
During the French Revolution, the unpopularity of the Directory led to riots and rebellions.
" During this time, the martyrs of the Revolution were taken from the Pantheon and buried in common ground, and revolutionary statues were destroyed.
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During the French Revolution the fasces image is seen in conjunction with many other symbols.
During the Revolution, the symbol of Hercules was revived to represent nascent revolutionary ideals.
During the more radical phase of the Revolution from 1793 to 1794, the usage and depiction of Hercules changed.
During the Revolutionary disturbances of 1848 ( March Revolution ), he appointed liberal ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal electoral law.
During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
During the late 18th century and early 19th century, there was considerable social upheaval as a largely agrarian society was transformed by technological advances and increasing mechanization, which was the Industrial Revolution.
During the Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, a large advancement of scientific progress known as the Scientific Revolution took place in Europe.
During the whole of the Industrial Revolution and for the century before, all European countries and America engaged in study-touring ; some nations, like Sweden and France, even trained civil servants or technicians to undertake it as a matter of state policy.
During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically.
* During the French Revolution, people widely destroyed religious and monarchical imagery.
* During and after the Russian Revolution, widespread destruction of religious and secular imagery took place, as well as destruction of imagery related to the Czar.
* During and after the Communist overthrow of the monarchy in China, as well as during the later Cultural Revolution, there was widespread destruction of religious and secular imagery in China, including in Tibet.
During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club.
During the American Revolution, the father Jean Audubon had been imprisoned by the British Empire.
* The Development of Leisure Amongst the Social Classes During the Industrial Revolution
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
During the French Revolution the Louvre was transformed into a public museum.
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