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| 1920, Jan |
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| Elections to the national assembly resulted in a victory for the conservative National Smallholder's Party and the Christian National Union. | 1 |
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| Feb. 25 |
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| Final evacuation of the country by the Romanians, who took with them all that was movable. | 2 |
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| March 1 |
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| Adm. Miklós Horthy, commander in chief of the forces, appointed regent and head of state. | 3 |
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| March 23 |
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| He proclaimed Hungary a monarchy, with the throne vacant. | 4 |
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| June 4 |
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| SIGNATURE OF THE TREATY OF TRIANON. The treaty was followed by Count Pál Teleki's new government's attempts to restore order. He suppressed roving officer-gangs by “reconciling” anti-Semitism with order. The government limited the number of Jewish students allowed in university, for example. But the most important step in stability was land reform. Four hundred thousand landless peasant families received small plots of land. The poor were also allotted 250,000 building lots. This eased some of the tensions over land possession, but because it forced many to undertake labor tenancy, it was an insufficient response to the problem of rural poverty. | 5 |
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