HIS364H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Habsburg Monarchy, Lajos Kossuth
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1686: the hungarians did all of the fighting against the ottomans, europea(cid:374)s did(cid:374)"t do a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g, hungary is liberated, hungary is integrated into the hapsburgs empire. Maria theresa: had 16 children one of them being marie antoinette, her son takes over in 1780-90, hapsburg empire begins to build roads, canals, etc. 1830-1848: hungary will see the emergence of its two most famous citizens. Istvan szechenyi: extremely wealthy, lajos kossuth, extremely poor. Iro(cid:374)i(cid:272)ally he does(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) speak hu(cid:374)garia(cid:374), he speaks german and english. Introduces hungarian theatre: huge growth in associational life the birth of the civil society. Larger political demands start emerging, particularly for more constitutional rights: all things that exist outside the state, szechenyi is a big architect of this developing many clubs. Introduction of newspapers: transylvania will become part of hungarian territory, the hungarians get a national hymn 1823 *understand what the national hymn.
