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| 1959, Nov. 30 |
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| Kádár, Hungarian Communist Party secretary, said Soviet troops would remain in Hungary as long as the international situation required. | 1 |
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| 1962, Aug. 19 |
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| An official announcement disclosed that 25 “Stalinists,” including Erno Gero and Mátyás Rákosi, had been expelled from the Socialist Workers Party. | 2 |
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| 1964, April 1–10 |
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| Nikita Khrushchev visited Hungary. In a joint statement, Hungary declared its support of the Soviet Communist Party in its dispute with the Chinese. | 3 |
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| 1965, June |
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| Kádár resigned as premier (he had begun a second term in 1961) but remained as first secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party. Though Gyulla Kállai became premier, Kádár remained the effective ruler of the country, following the Soviet lead in all matters of foreign policy and accepting the presence of Soviet troops on Hungarian territory but trying, in return, to lighten the repression characteristic of Communist rule. Cautious liberalization dominated Kádár's approach in the 1960s. | 4 |
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| 1966, Oct |
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| A new electoral law gave the voters a somewhat larger measure of choice between candidates on the official list. | 5 |
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| Nov. 28–Dec. 3 |
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| The Ninth Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party met and discussed economic reforms. | 6 |
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