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1st of February – Memorial day of the Republic
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On the 1st of February we are commemorating the law (1946. évi I. törvény) on the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic in 1946, which was declared a memorial day by the government in 2005. However, this wasn’t the only time the republic was proclaimed in Hungary. Let’s see a brief historic rewind!
On the 16th of November, 1918, the Hungarian National Council declared the Hungarian People’s Republic (First Hungarian Republic) which was a short-lived people’s republic that existed, apart from a 133-day interruption, from late 1918 until mid-1919. It was established in the wake of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I. The Hungarian People’s Republic replaced the Kingdom of Hungary and was in turn replaced by another short-lived state.
On the 27th of February, 1920 the National Assembly accepted the “re-establishment of the constitutionalism and the temporary settlement of the state authority” countermanding the revolutions’ arrangements and introducing the institution of a regent. On the 1st of March Miklós Horthy was chosen as the Regent of Hungary. The Hungarian state was legally a kingdom without a king as the Entente powers wouldn’t have tolerated a return of the Habsburgs.