Proclamation of the Republic / Anniversary of the Revolution 1956 October 23 (every year)
* Commemorates the 1956 revolution against hard-line Communist rule. For three decades the government called the 13-day event a counter-revolution. **Also marks the 1989 declaration of a new Hungarian Republic and the institution of a multi-party democracy. ***Only since 1989 has it been called the 1956 Revolution
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