| Mar 20, 2012 1:13:16 GMT -5 |
Post by edvin on Mar 20, 2012 1:13:16 GMT -5
Edvin (Budapest) Czakó
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I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Edvin Czakó
Nickname/Alias:
Ed, Vin, Buda
Gender:
Male
Character Type:
Capital
Country or Country of Origin:
Hungary
Canon or Original:
Original
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When I look into all of your stupid faces
I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust
Hair:
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Overall Appearance: At least one good paragraph
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
Dislikes: at least five
Strengths: at least three
Weaknesses: at least three
Fears: at least two
Secrets:
Any Quirks/Habits:
Overall Personality: at least two good paragraphs
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I'm the hero!
B.C.
Neolithic, Chalcolithic-, bronze and iron age cultures, Celtic and Eravisci settlements on present day Budapest.
1st century
Romans found the settlements known as Aquincum, Contra-Aquincum and Campona. Aquincum becomes the largest town of the Danubian region and one of the capitals of Pannonia.
5th century
The Age of Huns. King Attila builds a city for himself here according to later chronicles. After his death, the sons of his brother Mundzuk (Hungarian: Bendegúz, Turkish: Boncuk), Attila and Bleda (Hungariahn:Buda), in control of the united Hun tribes.
896
Following the foundation of Hungary, Árpád, leader of the Hungarians, settles in the "Town of Attila", usually identified as Aquincum.
10th century
Out of the seven to ten Hungarian tribes, four have settlements in the territory of modern Budapest: Megyer, Keszi, Jenő and Nyék.
1046
Bishop Gellért dies at the hands of pagans on present-day Gellért Hill.
1241
Tatar invasions destroy both towns. King Béla IV builds the first royal castle on Castle Hill, Buda in 1248. The new town adopts the name of Buda from the earlier one (present day Óbuda). Pest is surrounded by city walls.
1270
Saint Margaret of Hungary dies in a cloister on the Isle of Rabbits (present day Margaret Island).
1458
The noblemen of Hungary elect Matthias Corvinus (in Latin) or Hunyadi Mátyás (in Hungarian) as king on the ice of the Danube. Under his reign Buda becomes a main hub of European Renaissance. He dies in 1490, after capturing Vienna in 1485.
1541
The beginning of Ottoman occupation. The Turkish Pashas build multiple mosques and baths in Buda.
1686
Buda and Pest are reconquered from the Turks with Habsburg leadership. Both towns are destroyed completely in the battles.
1690s
Resettlement, initially only a few hundred German settlers.
1773
Election of the first Mayor of Pest.
1777
Maria Theresa of Austria moves Nagyszombat University to Castle Hill.
1783
Joseph II places the acting government (Helytartótanács) and Magyar Kamara on Buda.
1795
--20 May: Ignác Martinovics and other Jacobin leaders are executed on Vérmező or 'The Field of Blood'.
1810
A fire in the Tabán district.
1825
Commencement of the Reform Era. Pest becomes the cultural and economic centre of the country. The first National Theatre is built, along with the Hungarian National Museum.
1838
The biggest flood in recent memory in March completely inundates Pest.
1848
--15 March: Start of the Revolution and War of Independence of 1848-49. Pest replaces Pozsony/Pressburg (Bratislava) as the new capital of Hungary and seat of the Batthyány government and the Parliament.
1849
The Austrians occupy the city in early January, but the Hungarian Honvédsereg (Army of National Defense) reclaims it in April, taking the fortress of Buda on May 21 after an 18-day siege. In July, the Habsburg army again captures the two towns.
1849
--6 October: Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian Prime Minister is executed on the present-day Szabadság tér.
1849
Széchenyi Lánchíd, or Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Budapest was opened linking Buda (West bank) and Pest (East bank).
1867
Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, followed by unprecedented civic development, resulting in the style of present day Budapest.
1873
The former cities: Pest, Buda and Óbuda are united, and with that the Hungarian capital is established with the name of Budapest.
1874
The Budapest Cog-wheel Railway service is inaugurated.
1878
Electric public lighting installed in the city centre.
1893
Electrification of Budapest finished
1896
Millennium celebrations, the Millennium Underground is inaugurated, and the Ferenc József híd (today's Freedom Bridge) is opened.
1909–1910
Electric public lighting expanded to the suburbs, the nearby towns villages had Electric public lighting.
1910
The census finds 880,000 people in Budapest and 55,000 in the largest suburb of Újpest (now part of Budapest).
1918–1919
Revolution and the 133 days of the Hungarian Republic of Councils (March–August 1919) under the leadership of Béla Kun. It is the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. In the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919 the Romanian Army invaded Hungary. Maj.General of USA army Harry Hill Bandholtz between August 1919 and February 9, 1920,was the US representative to the Inter-Allied Supreme Command's Military Mission in Hungary. The Military Mission was charged with disarming the Hungarian military and supervising the immediate withdrawal of the Serbian and Romanian armies who were occupying the territory of Hungary. According to his own accounts, he is said to have prevented the arresting of Hungarian PM István Friedrich by the Romanians. He is also remembered for preventing Romanian soldiers from taking the Transylvanian collection of the Hungarian National Museum on 5 October 1919. His statue is standing in front of the US embassy in downtown Budapest. General Bandholtz said : "I simply carried out the instruction of my government, as I understood them, as an officer and a gentleman of the United States Army".
1924
Hungarian National Bank is founded.
1925
Hungarian Radio commences broadcasting.
1933
Disassembly of the Tabán commences.
1944
--19 March: The Germans occupy Budapest. At the time of the occupation, there were 184,000 Jews and between 65,000 and 80,000 Christians of Jewish descent in the town. The Arrow Cross collaborated with the Germans in murdering Jews. Fewer than half of Budapest's Jews (approximately 119,000) survived the following 11 months.
--26 December - 13 February: Soviet and Romanian troops besiege Budapest from 15 January to 18 January. The retreating Germans destroy all Danube bridges. On 18 January, the soviets complete the occupation of Pest. The Buda castle falls on 13 February. World War II took the lives of close to 200,000 Budapest residents and caused widespread damage to the buildings of the city.
1956
--23 October - 4 November: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 breaks out, ending in the invasion of a large Soviet force.
1960s
Wartime damage is largely repaired. Work on the final bridge to be repaired, the Elizabeth Bridge is finished in 1965.
1970–1972
The first phase of the East-Western Metro begins.
1982
The first phase of the North-Southern Metro begins.
1987
Castle Hill and the banks of the Danube are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
1990
The city is home to 2,016,100 residents.
2002
Andrássy Avenue is added to the list of World heritage Sites, along with the Millennium Underground railway and Heroes' Square.
2006
Hungarian protests.
2008
The Eastern part of the M0 motorway with Megyeri Bridge around the city is finished and given to public. The new Northern Railway Bridge is finished and is opened to public.
2009
The 2007-2009 complete reconstruction of Liberty Bridge finishes, along with the tracks of tramlines shared with tramline 49 which is going through it. The reconstruction of Margaret Bridge begins, planned to be finished in 2011.
2010
In August the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant starts its normal operation after one year of test service. This increases biologically treated sewage from 51% to 100%. As part of the Living Danube Project, along with finishing modernizations of the other Wastewater Treatment Plants and other subcenters, and expansion of the pipe system to 100% coverage (which included building the complete 7 km Central Danube main-collector, of which only less than 1 km was built back in the Reform Era (1880s)), the city, which was the only one in Hungary with a population level larger than the range that was required to reach Western European levels of Sewage Treatment by the end of December 2008 reached it before the 2010 December 31 deadline of its range, fulfilling this obligation of the EU Accession Treaty.
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You've got it backwards! Backwards!
Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!
Check Romania and Madrid and Venice's~
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
Chibi!
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