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Member of any of a number of nomad Mongol peoples who were first recorded historically in the 2nd century BC, raiding across the Great Wall into China. They entered Europe about AD 372, settled in the area that is now Hungary, and imposed their supremacy on the Ostrogoths and other Germanic peoples. Under the leadership of Attila they attacked the Byzantine Empire, invaded Gaul, and threatened Rome. After Attila's death in 453 their power was broken by a revolt of their subject peoples. The White Huns, or Ephthalites, a kindred people, raided Persia and northern India in the 5th and 6th centuries.

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14 January 1994
The Duchess of Kent becomes the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for three hundred years.

16 January 1916
World War I: Austro-Hungarian troops seize control of Montenegro.

17 January 1995
A massive earthquake hits Japan. The city of Kobe is worst hit, with hundreds of people feared dead.

19 January 1419

The Hundred Years War: Rouen formally surrenders to King Henry V of England.

20 January 1945

World War II: Hungary signs an armistice with the allies.

23 January 1989

A powerful earthquake hits the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. Hundreds of people are feared dead.

25 January 1999

An Earthquake in Columbia leaves three hundred people dead, and roughly a thousand injured.

26 January 1952
Fire destroys the National Library in Turin, Italy with the loss of several hundred valuable manuscripts.

31 January 2006

The hundredth British soldier is killed in Iraq since the invasion in 2003.

1 February 1953
Hundreds of people die in widespread flooding along the east coast of Britain.

8 February 1983
Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon resigns after an inquiry concluded that he had failed to act to prevent the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese refugees by Christian militias.

9 February 1950
United States Senator Joe McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade, claiming that more than two hundred state department officials are members of the communist party.

11 February 2006
US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington whilst hunting for quail in Texas.

13 February 1991

The Gulf War: American planes bomb Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqi civilians.

18 February 2005

Fox hunting with dogs becomes illegal in England and Wales.

20 February 2005

In America, influential writer and journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, a pioneer of 'gonzo journalism' commits suicide at his home in Colorado.

22 February 2005

Hundreds of people are killed in the Iranian city of Zarand and the surrounding area as a significant earthquake strikes.

25 February 1992

Over six hundred ethnic Azerbaijani civilians in the town of Khojaly are killed by ethnic Armenian armed forces.

26 February 1993

Six people are killed and hundreds injured as a bomb explodes in the World Trade Centre in New York, U.S.A.

1 March 1971
Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain take part in an unofficial strike in protest against the government's new industrial relations Bill.

8 March 1985
Car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon explodes killing 45 people and injuring hundreds more.

12 March 1993
Thirteen bombs explode across Bombay, India killing over two hundred people and injuring hundreds more.

15 March 1848
In Hungary, radicals and students storm the Buda fortress to release political prisoners as revolutionary movements spread across Europe.

17 March 1968
Two hundred people are arrested as a anti-Vietnam War protest outside the American embassy in London turns violent.

19 March 1944
Germany occupies Hungary.

20 March 1815
After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris and starts his "Hundred Days" rule.

31 March 1909
Austro-Hungarian musician and composer Gustav Mahler conducts the New York Philharmonic for the first time.

5 April 1992
Several hundred thousand people converge on Washington D.C., America to protest in favour of abortion rights for women.

7 April 1990
Two separate ferry accidents occur in Burma and Scandinavia respectively, killing in excess of three hundred people between the two disasters.

10 April 2000
In County Durham, England a shop manager who was sacked for being HIV positive reaches an out-of-court settlement believed to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

15 April 1450
The Hundred Years’ War: French forces decisively defeat the English at the Battle of Formigny in northern France.

16 April 2003
The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens paving the way for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to join the EU in 2004.

18 April 1906
The Great San Francisco earthquake hits the city, spreading firestorms across San Francisco and killing hundreds of people.

20 April 1953
During the Korean War, one hundred United Nations prisoners are freed under Operation “Little Switch.”

23 April 2006
Hungary's ruling Socialists win a second term in government.

29 April 1429
During the Hundred Years' War between France and England, Joan of Arc achieves her first military victory by relieving the Siege of Orleans.

1 May 2004
Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia join the European Union.

5 May 1981
In Northern Ireland, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands dies in the Maze prison, Belfast after spending 66 days on hunger strike to try and obtain political prisoner status.

12 May 1981
Following the death of Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes becomes the second IRA hunger striker to die in the Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

14 May 1995
The Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

19 May 1749
In America, King George II of England grants the Ohio Company a charter of several hundred thousand acres of land around the forks of the Ohio River, thereby promoting westward settlement by American colonists from Virginia.

20 May 1882

The Triple Alliance, a military pact between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, is signed.

22 May 1917
The First World War: Hungarian Prime Minister Istvan Tisza resigns at the request of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I.

23 May 1915
The First World War: Italy joins the Allies and declares war on Austria-Hungary.

29 May 1867
The Hungarian Diet formally accepts the terms of the Ausgleich, which creates the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy.

16 June 1989
Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary during the 1956 Uprising, is given a formal public funeral, 31 years after he was executed.

23 June 1915
The First World War: The Italian army attacks Austro-Hungarian positions near the Isonzo River in the first Battle of Isonzo.

26 June 1906
The first official motor racing grand prix, the French Grand Prix, is run at Le Mans with Hungarian Ferenc Szisz, driving a Renault, the winner with an average speed of 63mph.

30 June 1934
In Germany, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’, several hundred members of the SA and other senior members of the Nazi Party are killed by the SS on the orders of Adolf Hitler for allegedly being involved in a plot to assassinate him.

5 July 1914
In what became known as the “blank cheque”, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country’s unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia.

13 July 2005
In Ghotki, Pakistan, two trains crash killing over a hundred people.

17 July 1453
End of the One Hundred Years' War with a defeat for the English at the hands of the French at the Battle of Castillon.

22 July 1456
John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Belgrade.

23 July 1914
Austria-Hungary delivers an ultimatum to the Serbian government demanding to know who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Having received no reply, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia beginning the First World War.

27 July 2002
During an air show in Ukraine, a fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more.

28 July 1914
The First World War: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia beginning the initial phase of the Great War.

2 August 1100
William II of England, son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire. The King was supposedly mistaken for a deer.

4 August 2000
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, celebrates her hundredth birthday.

12 August 1687
The Hapsburgs defeat the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in modern day Hungary.

18 August 1917
The First World War: The Italian army launches their 11th battle against Austro-Hungarian troops on the Isonzo River, near Italy’s border with Austria-Hungary.

19 August 1987
In England, Michael Ryan shoots dead 16 people in the Berkshire town of Hungerford before turning the gun on himself.

28 August 1850
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt conducts the first performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin containing the Bridal Chorus - now better known as ‘Here Comes the Bride.’

4 September 2006
The Australian wildlife enthusiast and television presenter Steve Irwin, known as the “The Crocodile Hunter”, is killed by a stingray during a dive off the Australian coast.

10 September 1989
Hungary gives permission for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary for West Germany. It was the first time one of the Warsaw Pact nations broke from the practice of blocking citizens of the communist nations from going to the West.

19 September 1356
One Hundred Years’ War: The English Army, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeats the French at the Battle of Poitiers.

20 September 1978
A nationwide manhunt is launched by British police for the killers of 13 year old Carl Bridgewater who was shot dead the previous day. Although four men were later sent to prison for the crime, there convictions were later quashed and the killer has still not been caught.

21 September 1898
In China, the Hundred Days Reform is brought to an end when Tzu-hsi, Dowager Empress of China, stages a coup and seizes power.

24 September 1966
Hurricane Inez slams into the islands of the Caribbean, killing hundreds of people.

1 October 1962
African American student James Meredith attends the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, U.S.A. under armed guard. Meredith’s presence sparks a full-scale riot in which two people are killed and hundreds injured.

3 October 1981
Republican hunger-strikers at the H-block in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland finally give up their protest after 8 months. During that time 10 of their fellow protesters died of starvation.

6 October 1972
A train carrying religious pilgrims derails near Saltillo, Mexico, killing more than 200 people and injuring hundreds of others.

7 October 1879
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the Dual Alliance, an anti-Russian defensive military pact.

9 October 1915
The First World War: Austro-Hungarian forces capture the Serbian capital Belgrade.

10 October 1969
The British government accepts the recommendations of the Hunt committee on policing in Northern Ireland, whose main recommendation was to disband the B Specials' – the Ulster Special Constabulary.

23 October 1989
President Mátyás Szűrös proclaims the Hungarian Republic, ending Soviet domination of the country.

24 October 1917
The First World War: A German and Austro-Hungarian force crush the Italians along the northern stretch of the Isonzo River at the Battle of Caporetto.

25 October 1415
The Hundred Year’s War: The English Army, under King Henry V, defeats a vastly superior French Army at the Battle of Agincourt.

26 October 1979
Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea is killed by the Korean intelligence service.

28 October 1918

Czechoslovakia gains independence from Austria-Hungary.

2 November 1988
A General Election in Israel results in a hung parliament, which is eventually resolved by the formation of a national coalition led by the Likud party.

4 November 1956
Soviet troops enter Budapest as Soviet planes bomb part of the city putting an end to Hungary’s move towards independence from the Soviet Union.

9 November 1956
Following the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary, French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre denounces both the USSR and its communist system.

14 November 1940
The Second World War: German bombers launch a major night raid on Coventry, England, causing hundreds of fatalities and destroying Coventry Cathedral.

19 November 1941
The Second World War: During a battle in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia, the Australian HMAS Sydney and the German HSK Kormoran sink each other, killing hundreds of Australians and under a hundred Germans.

24 November 1999
A ferry sinks in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China after catching fire during a vicious storm. Hundreds of people are killed.

25 November 1953
The English Football loses at Wembley stadium for the first time to opponents outside of the British Isles losing 6 - 3 to Hungary.

5 December 1876
In America, a fire breaks out in the Brooklyn theatre in New York killing nearly 300 people and injuring hundreds more.

8 December 1881
620 people are killed and hundreds more are injured as a fire breaks out at the Ring Theater in Austria, Vienna.

13 December 1916
The First World War: A powerful avalanche kills hundreds of Austrian soldiers in a barracks near Italy’s Mount Marmolada.

17 December 2003
In England, Ian Huntley is found guilty of the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two school girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire.

18 December 1982
A fire begins in a power plant begins in Venezuela. By the time it ended, it killed 128 people and injured hundreds more. Half the capital city of Caracas lost electrical power and 40,000 people had to be evacuated.

31 December 1944
The Second World War: The provisional government of Hungary officially declares war on Germany.

2 December 1954

The anti-Communist witch-hunt comes to an end in America when its main instigator, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is condemned for conduct unbecoming of a U.S. Senator.

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