Chronology: History of Várpalota in years

[Hungarian version]

Prehistoric times

  • Neolithic - Várpalota and surroundings are populated places.
  • Copper Age - Várpalota and its surroundings are populated places.
  • Bronze Age - Várpalota and its surroundings are inhabited by the people of the lime-decorated pots

 

The Roman Empire and migrations

  • AD 46-49 - The eastern part of Transdanubia, including the area of Várpalota, was acquired by the Romans during the reign of Claudius. The name of the province of the enlarged area is then officially changed to Pannonia instead of Illyricum Inferior.
  • AD Around the 2nd century - The 158 m long, 4.5 m high valley dam is built and the associated sluice system that dams Lake Kikeri.
  • AD 2nd century - two derived from the first half of the century, each approx. 25-meter-diameter tumuli in Inota hidden a Roman find that is a rarity throughout the Roman Empire: the carriage burial in the mound reflects both Roman and Celtic traditions, and the mound's preserved perimeter wall and a small cultish room adorned with murals. [1].
  • AD 2nd century - In today's Inota district, Aelovia Musa erects a tombstone for her dearest child, who lived 14 years.
  • AD 2nd century - Appius Domitius Cató, son of Lucca, old campaigner, privileged technical soldier for 5 years, first accountant of the legion. For the 55-year-old Cató, the tomb was inscribed with a nimble 5th squadron with a gracious spirit named after Nerva. It was put up by the entire cohors of 12 squadrons.
  • AD Second half of the 2nd century - An ornate tombstone is erected in Inota for Aurelius Dialog (Dialogius), a veteran of the 7th Praetorian cohors (battalion), who died at the age of 50. The tombstone also bears the Celtic name of his wife, Trovcissa. (The relief was built into the wall of Zichy Castle, today it can be seen in the stone storehouse of the castle.) The cohors VII. Brencorum. In 85 AD stayed in Pannonia, in 167 in Pannonia Inferior, somewhere on the banks of the Danube.
  • AD 2nd century - Lucius Barbius erects a votive relief. (The stone was built into the wall of the Roman Catholic church and is now visible in the castle's stone exhibition) Perhaps a member of the Roman genus Barbius, which had economic interests throughout Pannonia.
  • 409 - The area of Várpalota falls into the Hun’s hands as part of the province of Pannonia Valeria.
  • AD 5th century - Huns live in the area of Várpalota, the beautiful evidence of which is the 108 cm high, 21 kg Hun cauldron made of bronze unearthed in 1958 and the strikingly short, muscular statue with chunky legs which was found with it.
  • AD 5th century - Longobards inhabit the area of Várpalota. Their cemetery which contained of fifty graves excavated in 1933 in the Sand Mine near the Csákány Bridge (“Csákányhíd”). After their 568 withdrawal Avars live in the same area.
  • AD 6th century - early 10th century - Avars inhabit the area of Várpalota (their late Avar cemetery was found in the area of György Thury Grammar School).
  • April 2, 568 (Easter Monday) - Alboin and the Longobards begin evacuating Pannonia, igniting all combustibles to ensure their retreat to Italy.

 

From the conquest to the extinction of the Árpád House

  • AD 10th century - Ösbő (Usubu) and Őse (Euse) leaders, the ancestors of the genera Szalók occupy the area.
  • 1082 - The first documented mention of Pét in which St. Ladislaus I confirms the estates of the Veszprém chapter here, where he has two mills.
  • 1171 - III. King Stephen, Benedict land-steward's of Veszprém, estate called Kalóz with nine mansions (= house and household), oxen and studs and two mills on the water of Peth donates to Church of Veszprém.
  • 1193 - Inota's first written mention III. In Béla's certificate, in which he donates the village to the Crusader Convent of Fehérvár with three vineyards. The certificate mentions the name Inota in the form Iunota.
  • 1240 - First mention of Sechel as Zenes. The provost from Itebő (Itebw) counts the courtiers and arranges their lands on behalf of the king. He gives back to the Church of Veszprém the two mills in the water of Peeth, which were occupied by the courtiers of Zenes (Széheli).
  • 1244 - First mention of the church of Pét. Church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In the case of the mill on the water of Peeth, the Fehérvár Crusade Convention, in favor of the Veszprém chapter, decided, among other things, to raise the waterbed above the mill of the Crusaders, called Sceelees, at the place where it was sunk, with two fingers, and to maintain the dam. 2/3 is partly for the convention and 1/3 is for the chapter's mill.
  • August 1, 1244 - The chapter's millers send six people to the village of Peet, and two of them, appointed by the Crusader Convention to the miller, swear in the Church of St. John the Baptist that they did not harm him.
  • 1252 - IV. Pope Ince also confirms III. Béla's donation in1193 to the Crusader Convention in Fehérvár.
  • 1271 - The charter dealing with the division of the Szalók family contains the words "Tikolföld with the Várad forest". Mention of Széhel as Zenel.
  • 1272 - Inota is placed in a privileged position, as István V. ordered that the serfs of the Fehérvár Crusader Convention be free from all customs and collection, and that the country's flagships should not be forced to occupy them.
  • November 1287 - Siege of Bátorkő (Castro Bacurku), in which IV. The lovely man of László's wife, Queen Isabella, János Zsidófia, was wounded by falling stones and storm of arrows. (It is debatable whether this mention is about the Palota’s force.)
  • 1291 - the landowner of Iváncsa is called György Inotai.
  • 1292, Sükösd, the son of Zoch, a resident of Inota, is a witness in the case of Berki, the owner of Fejér County. End of the 13th century - The Bakony forest, which was governed as the private estate of the kings of the Árpád dynasty as a separate forest estate, is donated to the Csák family forever. Along with the title, they will also receive the castles of Várgesztes, Csesznek, Ugod, Csókakő, Bátorkő and the villages of the castle districts belonging to them.

 

14th century

 

  • 1326 - After the death of Máté Csák, Károly Róbert forces the sons of István, belonging to the Csák family, to hand over the above-mentioned castles and castle areas to the king.
  • January 8, 1327 - King Charles I confirms the donation of Ispán John son of Antal from Peeth, to the Church of Veszprém and received from the king by Deseu, a son of Des of Kaloz.
  • May 19, 1341 - Mention of Inota in a certificate ("Jonata")
  • May 19,1341 - Data in a certificate on Bátorkő.
  • November 3, 1341 - King Charles I confirms Ispán, son of Antal from Peeth, in possession of the land named Deseu Kalóz.
  • May 28, 1350 - King Louis I assignes and confirms László I's 1082 charter listing the estates of the Church of Veszprém, including the predium called Tuzuk, and their boundaries.
  • November 18, 1350 - For their services by King Louis I Bátorkő donated to the sons of Master Lőrinc, sculptor: Miklós from Bratislava (Pozsony) and the royal cup-bearer master, Leukus, Bertalan and their offspring - by his father to Marcus, a son of Chaak, acquired from his son, the late master Peter (by exchange of estates) - a royal castle Bátorkő (Batorkuu) with all its income, the villages called Pethkalaztelek and Zaloteleke and other estates with their accessories, as a new donation. (Miklós, the count (ispán) of Bratislava (Pozsony) later calls himself Miklós Újlaki or Palotai Kont, and later he is the founder of the huge Újlaki family.)
  • June 19, 1354 - The Veszprém chapter protests against the occupation of his lands named Tuzukteleke and Kalozd by Miklós Kont, the count (ispán) of Szolnok, and his brother, Master Leukus.
  • July 19, 1354 - The Veszprém chapter again protests about the occupation of Tuzukteleke and Kalozd by Master Miklós Kont and Leukus.
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  • November 15, 1355 - The Transylvanian voivode Miklós Konth and the count (ispán) of Zonuk rewrite his own certificate dated May 24 of the current year in Bátorkő (in Baturkw) what was showed by Pál Fodor (Fudur dictus), son of Mihály Jarai, on behalf of Peter, formal vice.court as his “famulus” and lawyer after confirming from Stephen's sub voivode patent and the letter of confirmation from the Kolusmunustura convention that Peter had paid the HUF 500 gold in the vice-court through his appointed lawyer on the given date, Waradia estate is given him, and son of Viuianus, Johannák commands eternal silence.
  • July 16, 1356 - Palatine Miklós Konth leases that part of the estate which from the Veszprém chapter (with the consent of Bishop János) for six pence a year the Lowos res of the Fehérvár chapter, also known as Tykolylese and Ews, and which was closed by mentioned estates and his own estate named Zynil (Széhel!).
  • October 6, 1357 - At the Pannonhalma convention, János, canon and dean from Veszprémannounces the protest of his chapter, because Miklós Konth, the Transylvanian voivode and the count (ispán) of Zonuk, and his brother: Lewkus,occupied a large part of his land belonging to Kalozd, Premortun and Tuzukteluk, and attached it to their own estate in Peth.
  • November 4, 1357 - Palatine Miklós Konth, in a letter dated to Bátorkő, instructs the Convention of Zala to investigate the complaint of priest Kelemen Vidipi and his colleagues that the royal peoples of Karakó and Berzseny occupied most of their Vidipi estate.
  • November 20, 1357 - Letter from palatine Miklós Konth dated in Bátorkő.
  • April 16, 1360 - In the letter of the chapter of Győr, in which he writes a report to palatine Miklós Konth in connection with the lawsuit against the Veszprém chapter of the Bel monastery for the possession of Palaznuk, appears the name of Jakab, the son of Wgrin in Peeth.
  • June 29, 1364 - One of the letters of palatine Miklós Konth dates from Bátorkő Castle.
  • July 11, 1366 - István's son János Bátorkő ("Baturkw"), the provost and vicar of János Veszprém, together with the abbot of Egyed Zircch (Zyrch), reports to palatine Miklós Konth from the village of Ganna that at his command Abbot crossed the border of the village (possession) of Ganna in Veszprém County and appreciated the benefits of the villages.
  • July 15, 1374 - The authority of Veszprém county informs King Louis I that pursuant to the general procedural order issued to the chapter of Veszprém, he sent a servant to György, son of Erden in Wamus, who on 15 July investigated in Veszprém county that the late palatine Konth his sons, Bertalan and Miklós, forcibly seized certain parts of the chapter's estate (belonging to Pét) and the 2 mills on the Pethuize River and attached them to their own estate called Peth.
  • November 18, 1374 - In a letter dated in Visegrád, Palatine Imre leaves the chapter of Fehérvár to send his man to have one of the listed palatine people recapture the estates of the Veszprém chapter in the foreign hands called Kaluz and Tuzukteleke in Veszprém County, separate them from the land of the neighbors and register the church in their possession.
  • December 31, 1374 - The Veszprém chapter tries to recapture the sub-estates of Kalóz and Tuzukteleke and the two mills on the Pethuize river, which is prevented by the serf and famulus of Péter Beus, the son of palatine Miklós Konth, master Bertalan.
  • January 5, 1375 - The Fehérvár chapter reports to the palatine Imre that when, on the order of November 18, 1374, accompanied by his predecessor: Miklós Zemlyn, the estates of Dominic, son of Lőrinc of Chatar Kaluz and Tuzukteleke and the 2 mills on the Pethuize River on December 31, 1375, he wanted to reclaim and register for the Veszprém chapter, the serf and famulus of Bertalan, the son of the late palatine Miklós Konth: Péter contradicted the installation, and therefore summoned his lord to the palatine by January 13, 1375.
  • January 13, 1375 - the royal man summons Master Bertalan to the palatine because of the situation caused by Kalóz, Tuzukteleke and Pethuize.
  • May 1, 1378 - Palatine Miklós Garai discusses the case of Kalóz, Tuzukteleke and Pethuize. Then Bertalan's lawyer, István litteratus of Iankouch, declares that the lawsuits and the agent of the two mills lie within the boundaries of Peth's estate, which he can prove with a certificate. The palatine orders the proof for the eighth of St. James of the current year (August 1, 1378), which, however, does not take place until May 1, 1382.
  • May 1, 1382 - Master Bertalan's lawyer now presents Miklós Szécsi to the judge with a donor's deed of 1350, according to which King Charles I of Batorkuu, acquired by King Charles I from his son, the late Master Peter, for his services to the king, Castle donated the villages and other accessories called Pethkalaztelek and Zalo-teleke to the sons of Master Lőrinc Tót (Sclaui) to the count (ispán) of Bratislava, (Pozsony) Miklósand to the royal cup-bearer, Leukus and Bertalan. As it appeared from this donation letter that Master Peter had given the king a compulsory guarantee for his descendants at the time of the exchange, the judge, on the proposal of Master Bertalan's lawyer by August 1, 1382 he summons before the king.
  • March 4, 1383 - László's lawyer, Mihály of Both, states that his client and his predecessors did not give King Charles I the shares called Kaluz and Tuzukteleke and the two mills in return, nor did they undertake any warranty. In order to prove this, in the transcript of the chapter of Fehérvár in 1327 he presents the privilege of King Charles I on the exchange issued in 1326. As Master Bertalan's lawyer promises further evidence, the court judge fines his client three marks and postpones the trial until May 1, 1383.
  • May 1, 1383 - On the basis of the certificates presented by the canons of John and the archbishop on behalf of his chapter, the judge finds that Peter Marcus's son did not give the Kalóz and Tuzukteleke estates and their mills confiscated by the chapter to King Charles I nor has it given any warranty, so it cannot be obligated to do so. And the chapter proved that the lawsuit was his. The judge orders Miklós Zambo, the master of the royal steward: Master Michael of Archa, to register the chapter in the possession of Kalóz and the mills on Peethuize on 1 June in the presence of neighbors and neighboring landowners, Master John said that in addition to his client's estate called Peeth, there were many parts of the estate called Tuzukteleke, and his lord did not know which of them were his chapters, but according to László I's privilege, Tuzuk was a demarcated predium, in the presence of neighbors and adjoining possessors, in accordance with the instructions of the chapter's administrator, within the limits specified in the said privilege. If the boundaries thus established include the part of the Tuzukteleke chapter estate or the estate which he recaptured as Tuzuk, then taking into account any protests of Master Bertalan and others, register the Veszprém chapter in its possession and finally establish it as well. whether Kaluz, the Tuzug plot and the mills were in the hands of Master Bertalan, and are they still there? He requests the report by 1 July 1383 at the address of the king.
  • July 2, 1383 - Master Bertalan with the chapter of Veszprém (despite of the agreement that was notwithstanding the agreement reached with the mediation of the Royal Magistrate Miklós Zambo to the judges of Mikhail Mod, the canons of Miklós Zemlyn to the canons of Fehérvár, and to the chapter notary and other received judges) chapter took away the millstones and irons from the mills on his estate called Tuzuktelek, destroying the mills after the chapter restored them at great expense.

  • July 3, 1383 - Master Bertalan relocated the chapter's two serfs in Tuzuktelek, together with their possessions and chattels, to his own estate in Peeth, and shortly after the (litigation) agreement with the chapter, the church formally established a new estate. demolished its boundaries. During 1383, he mowed the grass grown on the chapter's estate and grazed the remainder with the animals of his serfs in Peeth. Eventually, although before this reign he had permission to use the exterminations used by his own serfs on the estate of Tuzutelek, he now plowed much of the arable land there, in addition to the exterminated lands.
  • July 25, 1383 - Master Bertalan with his serf and famulus living on the Peeth estate: Michael's son Antal returned five carts loaded with grain from Fehérvár and the surrounding villages for grinding and forbade people to grind in the mills mentioned in the chapter. He abused Molnár and Mihály Zárka.
  • August 5, 1383 - The chapter of Fehérvár reports to Queen Mary that, according to the general procedural order issued to the chapter of Veszprém, he sent canons János Kis, accompanied by Dominic of Jutas, to investigate the tug of war around Tuzuktelek and Peeth.
  • September 29, 1384 - The authority of Veszprém county sent a servant to Miklós, the son of Tamás Jutas, to the order of the general procedural order of Queen Mary to the chapter of Veszprém, who on September 27 sent the sons of the late palatine Miklós Konth: Miklós and Bertalan and banned their serfs from Peeth from the unlawful use of the estates of the Veszprém chapter called Tuzuktelek and Kalóz and the pastures belonging to the two mills on Peetuize.
  • January 12, 1385 - Queen Mary in response to the complaint of chapter of Veszprém that László, son of Petycz of Kowachy, Tamás, son of Bedech, Peter and Damján of Saar, and the peoples of Peeth are all members of the church in Premarton, Peethkalwz and Land, forest and meadow parts were taken from his estates in Thwzuktheleke and, despite his repeated protests, he was forcibly occupied, leaving it to the Fehérvár chapter to establish the facts and prohibiting violent occupiers from further use of these parts of the estate.
  • December 21, 1387 - Letter from King Sigismund (Zsigmond) to the Fehérvár chapter, according to which: to call the sons of palatine Miklós Konth: masters Bertalan and Miklós to pay the census feodalist who had been missing for many years after the land of chapter of Veszprém called “Lovaz” neighboring estates Zenyl and Thikol which their feudal lord had rented, and if they were reluctant, summon them to the palatine.
  • August 5, 1393 - The Pannonhalma Convention proves that its delegates, Elek slash, Lénárd cantor, Jakab bacalarius sacre théologie provost in front of monks, sons of Bertalan, son of Palatine Miklós Konth (dictus) Palata The son of palatine Miklós Konth, Master Miklós, gave two estates to the Pauline monastery named after the Virgin Mary in Chatka during their childhood, the Repche in Veszprém county non longe a dicto claustro and Barand in “Fehérmegye” (Fehér County) and they give them to the monastery again.
  • February 2, 1394 - The widow of Miklós Kont (Klára Zsámboki, daughter of Palatine Miklós) gives one of the villages of the Baturke estate to the Paulists of Csatka and orders that the castle of Bátorkő not judge the serfs of the village. (Probably the right to judge remained as customary law from the time when there was still a royal castle, Bátorkő.)
  • 1397 - The first documented mention of Palota is in the church visitation protocol of the Esztergom Cathedral.
  • May 24, 1397 - Tamás Zekel (dictus), son of Lőrinc of Cheguz, presents his Zomold estate in Komárom County to his wife, Lucia and his children, János, László and Anna, in front of the Buda chapter. he received a donation from his sons: László and Imre.
  • October 6, 1400 - Sons of Palatine Miklós Konth, son of Palatine in front of the Crucifix Convention in Fehérvár Sons of Master Bertalan: Masters László and Imre, for the spiritual salvation of themselves and their ancestors give their building site next to the Convent named St. Nicholaus together with their associated stone and wooden buildings to the Monastery of Virgin Mary in Chatka, where their ancestors are buried.

 

15th century

 

  • June 8, 1405 - In front of Zsigmond Buda, the son of palatine Miklós Konth from Palatha, the son of Bertalan, Imre gives his part of the Barand estate in Fejér County to son of Imre Szentgyörgyi (Zenthgyurgh), deceased brother Vinche, judge of Fehérvár (civitas nostra Albensis) as a reward for his many services (" Totum ius et omnem dominii proprietatem ") transferred to him and his descendants.
  • 1409 - Balázs Keszi is ambassador in Bátorkő, courtesan (curial) in the manor house (curia) of Palota.
  • January 1, 1419 - Dated on Palatha, John the son of László Ban of Wylak gives the Church of St. George of Jasth (Jásd), the current abbot of the church, an uninhabited predium called Goloh in Veszprém County with all its benefits and accessories in exchange for the conversion of St. George's Monastery to him a large mill on the stream of Inota (in fluvio possessionis nostre Inotha, in fluvio Inotha) in the village of Inota. He also undertakes to protect the abbots in possession of the predium, that he, his brothers and his descendants may take it back only if they return the mill, and that the abbots may be excluded from the buildings they have erected in the meantime only after reimbursement, but nor from the mill on it, which his predecessors and he gives/gave to the church forever.
  • March 24, 1419 - King Sigismund, in his letter to the spouse or sub-prince of Zala county and to district administrators in Fehérvár, orders an investigation into the complaint of the provost Elek Örsi (prepositus Eursiensis), according to which the sons of Bertalan Palatha's son, László, the serfs of János, István, Peter and Paul - including Stephanus dictus Németh, George Varga, Petrus Solum, Gregorius Pychik, Ladizlaus parvus, Anthonius Chynk dictus, Iohannes de Banth dictus, Bertalan saddle maker, György tailor, Benedictus Pinther, Petrus dictus de , Petrus Slaus, Egidius dictus Vegh, Georgius Luthyna, Kuthelgartho (dictus) Bertalan, Dominicus dictus Chychaly, Varyw Benedek, Jakab varga, Emericus Sthegar et Philiphus hospites de Zenyel; Georgius dictus Beke, Dominicus dictus Phiros, Petrus dictus Mod, Dominicus Veg, Imre miller, Mychael dictus Vég hospites de Pethy; Blacksmith Peter Smith, saddle maker Bertalan, butcher Paul, Georgius magnus, Georgius dictus Vnuka hospites de Inutha, Iohannes niger, Paul and George car manufacturers hospites de Chezy - on St. Peter's Day, ie on February 22, on behalf of their masters and András, a castellan in Bathorkw, they broke into the estate of Ewrs and the house of provost Elek there. He and his family were then beaten, several of them wounded, in addition, omnia vina, blada, frumenta et alias res et bona ac centum florenos nove monete atque clenodia sue domus predicte cum armis familiarium Suorum were taken away, a horse led away saddle and reins. In his letter, Sigismund states that since such violence cannot go unpunished, the neighbors and the nobles of the county should be summoned under oath in the presence of the commissioner of the Zala Convention and report to him under oath. His certificate, which he confirms with his larger Hungarian royal seal, must be returned to the performer after reading it.
  • February 10, 1422 - Letter dated by King Sigismund (Zsigmond) at Palota, in which he orders the Pannonhalma Convention to register the Chathka Virgin Mary Monastery in the Thech estate of Komárom County, which was transferred to the monastery by will. The command was probably not issued by him personally, but by Chancellor János Albeni, who was traveling from the south to Buda and stopped at Palota.
  • December 2, 1422 - In a letter to the chapter of Veszprém, King Sigismund mentions the royal man Peter of Inotha (Péter Inotai)
  • 1426 - Belongs to Bátorkő:  Tinnye, Szényel, Csernye, Dolosd, Erdő-Inota, Csősz, Pere, PétCsór, Mellár, Kuti, Gyón, OlaszfaluMolnos-Inota
  • 1436 - Complaint against Miklós Újlaki's castellans of Bátorkő (Mihály Móri and Lőrinc Kupi).
  • November 1439 - A letter from palatine Lőrinc of Hédervár (Hedrehwara) to the Veszprém county authority reveals that Miklós of Palotha ban of Macsó has annexed the Ews, Stemen and two Tees estates in Veszprém County from István Rozgonyi and his son János in recent days and occupied with his 400 horsemen extorting much food from the people there.
  • 1440 - The Franciscan monastery already stands.
  • 1440 - Jakab Felföldi is a castleman in Bátorkő.
  • 1440–1445 - Miklós Újlaki builds the castle of Palota.
  • June 23, 1442 - Letter dated Bátorkő from Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian voivode and Ban of Macsó.
  • September 23, 1442 - Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode and a ban from Macsó, gives a free passage to Queen Elizabeth and her entourage with a charter dated in Bátorkő. (Ie during this period there was a civil war between the followers of King Ulászló I of Poland and the widow Queen Elizabeth.)
  • August 2, 1443 - In a letter dated to Palota of King Ulászló I communicates the chapter of Vasvár that László, the son of István Széplaki, resp. its father, István, also wished Péter Szántói, according to whom their ??? brother György Széplaki Bottka, and his son János, who unknowingly pledged the possession of Széplak to Mátyás Lacza and Lukács, wanted the relationship condivisionalis fraternitatis primarily to them. He also orders the addressee to send his faithful man in the presence of the royal man to call the pledgers to hand over the estate to the above, and if they do not do so, summon them to St. Michael's Eighth (October 6) before the royal hearing.
  • .July 22, 1444 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian Voivodeship and ban of Macsó, in a letter to Palota inform Pál Essegvár (Esegwar) and Basi, son of Hym in Debrenthe dictators of Zala County, he deputized to march with him when necessary, namely with 10 horsemen and the same number of “armiger”. He also orders that this dica (conscription) be not brought in, and if that would not be enough to fulfill the military service, he would be told to make up the shortfall from elsewhere.
  • September 23, 1444 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian voivode and Ban of Macsó, in a letter dated Bátorkő, orders the royal salt chambers of Grapiolus and Paksi (Pakws) Trombetarius of Lak, to give to his familiar Basi of Debrenthe in return for salarium (payment) “decem tumenos salium” from one of the Transylvanian salt chambers to his account and keep this commission as a receipt.
  • October 27, 1444 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian voivode, and Ban of Macsó, in a letter to Bátorkő, ordered Pál of Esegwar and Basi of Hym, Debrenthe, for taking over the castle of Kapw (Sopron county) “cum omnibus vestris gentibus et familiaribus, ut decentius fieri ” to appear below the named castle.
  • 1445 - Parliament exempts castrum Palota from destruction. (Article 4 of the 1445 Parliamentary “Decree”).
  • February 18, 1445 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian Voivodeship and ban of Macsó, entrusts the monastic vice-treatment of Szörény with the castles of Gewrin, Orswa, Haram, Sebes and Kewen, as well as Arad, Zaránd, Kewn and Torontál counties, to Basi, son of Hym Debrenthei and János Zalanczi as his familials and commits to pay them 4,000 gold forints a year for the “conservation” of the castles.
  • February 27, 1445 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian Voivodeship and ban of Macsó in his letter orders Balázs Trombetarius, the Salt Chamber of Szeged, the account of the nobleman László of Keer, captain of the civitas of Fehérvár: Imre Somogyi's familial “pro subsidio per nos sibi deputato” to pay out salt worth 32 golden forints.
  • March 10, 1445 - Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode and the Ban of Macsó, in an open order dated at Palota, allowed the salt to be transported from Transylvania to be handed over to the hands of the castle ambassador of Újlak Castle.
  • March 10, 1445 - By order of Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian voivode and Ban of Macsó, he leaves the city of Sibiu (Szeben) to commission the Italian salt chamber: Pepohe commissioned his Italian salt chamber to beat him in the mint chamber in Szeben let him do it.

  • June 18, 1445 - A letter from Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian voivode, generalis vicarius and captain of Hungary, dated in Palota proves that János Rozgonyi Sr. on his own and his brothers: Rynoldus and Osvald, on the other hand the János Rozgonyi Jr. and the differences between them, János Rozgonyi Sr., on behalf of his own and his mentioned brothers, was willing, on the basis of his former obligation, to provide half of the castles and accessories of Thatha and Csókakő (Chokakw) to the jr. János Rozgonyi, but he was only willing to go into sharing if he got one of the castles completely independently, because under no circumstances does it want to live with János Rozgonyi and his brothers.
  • August 27, 1445 - Miklós Újlaki, Transylvanian Voivodeship and Ban of Macsó, orders Tolna County (Barnabás Thure of Almusd and Péter Zerechen, deputy councilors of Tolna County) in a letter dated to the Palota to prevent István Nagy (Magnus) from in the use of holdings of crusader convent in Fehérvár named Fad, Varasd and Halazy.
  • January 6, 1446 Letter from Miklós Újlaki from the Transylvanian voivode and the Ban of Macsó dated in Castro nostro Palatha about the agreement with Fridrik Cillei and his son, Ulrik, bans of Tótföld.

  • June 2, 1451 - Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode and the Ban of Macsó, in a letter dated in Palota, orders that the sons of Pető Gersei not dare to relocate and transfer the serfs to their own estates and land in the future.

  • June 4, 1451 – Miklós Újlaki (Vylak) from Transylvania Voivodeship and Ban of Macsó states in a letter dated in Palota that István Rozgonyi took the castle and manor of Hegyesd (Zala county) for pledge from the Chief of Bratislava (Pozsony) in order to replace /pro redenptione capitis/ Sebestyén Rozgonyi who is currently a prisoner in Janua, Italy. And since Hegyesd belongs to László Szécsényi (Zechen) in perpetual right, the Rozgonyians own it only as a pledge he undertakes to return it immediately after depositing HUF 1,000.

  • March 3,  1452 – Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode, applies to the Pope for a farewell permit for the benefit of the Church named of the Blessed Virgin of fraters.  (This is the earliest document currently known that Palota is a market town.)
  • March 24, 1453 – The town council of Palota market town complains in a letter to the town of Bratislava (Pozsony) because they do not respect the duty-free and thirtieth immunity of the people of Palota.
  • May 11, 1455 - In a charter dated Vienna, palatine László Garai proves that, at the request of Miklós Újlaki (Wylak) from the Transylvanian voivode and the ban of Macsó, on the other hand, in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in whose honor the Pauline monastery in Csatka was built. He gave to this monastery the grapes on the vineyard hill of the Peeth estate in Veszprém County, which belonged to János Rédey, their serf living in Réde, but after his seedless death he passed to the landlord, which János Rédey bequeathed to the monastery of Csatka. He leaves it to the castellan of the castle of Csesznek (Chesnek) so that they do not dare to obstruct the monastery in connection with the vineyards.
  • September 18, 1455 - In a letter dated in Palota, Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode and a ban from Macsó, informs Lukács and Matthias of Lacza in Marthonfalwa and the castellans of Hegyesd Castle of the complaint of the civilians of Palotha: György Weres and László Zakach. According to the complaint, when they moved from the assets of László Pető Gersei to the named Palotha, he did not allow their grapes to be squeezed, took their animals and kept György Weres' wife in captivity for some time. Miklós Újlaki also lets László Pető get justice for the damage he has suffered.
  • April 3, 1456 - The Veszprém chapter mentions a palatine man named Tamás Inotha in his report to the palatine dated in Csatka.
  • Pentecost Sunday, May 16, 1456 - The Franciscan observant province holds its national assembly at Palota. The General Assembly of the Franciscans elects in Palota István Varsányi as the vicar of the Hungarian Salvatorian Franciscan orders after the term of office of Mihály Bölcsnyi
  • February 24, 1458 - One month after Mátyás was elected king, and 10 days after Mátyás marched to Buda, Miklós Újlaki, who retired from the Buda Palace and retired from public participation, with the consent of his wife, Margit Rozgonyi and four daughters, was awarded a reward for five hundred forints gives its sub-holdings in Lepsény to Tamás Paczman.
  • July 26, 1458 - Palatine László Garai, voivode Miklós Újlaki, and Governor Mihály Szilágyi form an alliance against Matthias I in Simontornya.
  • April 1459 - King Matthias' armies occupy Palota from the rebellious Miklós Újlaki (and Pápa from László Garai.)
  • January 1, 1460 - Miklós Újlaki, a Transylvanian voivode and a ban from Macsó, states in a letter dated in Palota (?) that since Tamás, son of János Paczman, lent him 4,000 golds, he pawned him the castle of Hegyesd in Zala County together with estates called Felsewalmad, Beech, Alsoalmad, Gerek and Walwe, subject to the right of redemption.
  • June 23, 1464 - A verdict is handed down in the case of Miklós Újlaki's people (Bálint's son Mihály and others) attacking and looting the property named Hajmáskér of Bishop Albert Vetési of Veszprém on Monday (November 28) before St. Andrew. Certified mention of “Palatha” as a market town.
  • 1465 - Mention of Bátorkő in a charter.
  • August 30, 1465 - Miklós Újlaki is the inherited comes (count) of Thechak to the castle lords of Wywar in Slavonia and Macsó. Fraters living in Chathka complained that the serfs living in Wywar's accessories were not allowed to walk to their mills, especially in Peeth and Tynnye, which caused them damage. He leaves that a serf living on the castle’s accessories, or anywhere else not to dare from going to mills of fraters in Peeth and Tinnye to grind his grain and not dare to harm the fraters.
  • April 20, 1468 - Miklós Újlaki in front of the sworn citizens of the town of Újlak sells a vineyard of Miklós Velyre to Tamás Pachmann, a castle ambassador from Újlak.
  • 1470 - Mihály Bakonyi is the castellan of Palota.
  • 1471 - King Matthias I made Miklós Újlaki King of Bosnia.
  • 1472 - Miklós Újlaki is crowned king of Bosnia in Jajce.
  • 1472 - According to contemporary records, a flourishing monastic life unfolds in the Franciscan monastery of Palota.
  • October 18, 1475 - We know from the letter of István Csornay-i the castle ambassador of Németújvár (Nemethwywar) that at that time the castellan of Palotha was Tamás Paczman.
  • 1476 - Palota receives the right to hold fairs.
  • October 1477 - The serfs of Miklós Újlaki's in Palota use violence in the meadow of Ősi, on the estate of Bishop Albert Vetési of Veszprém.
  • 1477 - Miklós Újlaki dies.
  • 1478 - The priest Nicholas is the priest in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • November 7, 1477 - Ungy Simon, castellan of Palota (Palotha) and András Achel castellan of Csókakő and his second castellan, Orbán Rawaz and familials of Oszvald and Dorottya, widow of János Rozgoinyi by serfs of Lőrinc Újlaki Bosnian king attacked estate of crusaders in Bodajk (Bodayth) with terrible cries and then 12 men were killed.
  • December 10, 1478 - In a letter to the Székesfehérvár chapter, King Matthias orders a cross-convention in Székesfehérvár to investigate, among other things, what happened in 1477.
  • 1484 - Tamás Paczman is prisoner at Palota. (In order to free Tamás Paczmáni, who was captured by Lőrinc Újlaky and locked in the castle of Palota, the estate of the named prisoner named Csernye was pledged to István Szapolyai by Péter Zeghi Zeghfalvi and Barabás Almásti.
  • 1488 - Palota pays the king a national tax of HUF 92, which is the fourth highest in the county after Veszprém, Pápa, and [Somló] Vásárhely. (The fourth largest place in Veszprém county is Palota market town!)1
  • 1490 – John (János) Corvin secretly brings the Holy Crown to the Palace, therefore the castle is besieged, Prince John is captured, the crown and jewels brought from Buda are taken back from him, and the armed men accompanying the prince are drowned one by one.
  • November 22, 1490 - Lőrinc Újlaki requests a letter of protection from Miksa for his own person and his serfs. (As far as you know, Miksa invades and occupies Székesfehérvár in the autumn of 1490 Palota and its estates fell into the path of this war!)
  • January 3, 1491 - Miklós Koromlyai leaves 4 two- and three-year-old fattened trenches in the Franciscan monastery of Palota.
  • February 27, 1491 - II. Ulászló accuses Lőrinc Újlaki of infidelity in a donation letter for the letter of protection requested from Miksa.
  • August 9, 1491 - II. In his letter of command to Bártfa, dated at Palota, King Ulászló describes, among other things, the further aims of his campaign: the recovery of Fehérvár and Veszprém from the “Roman king”, Miksa.
  • August 10, 1491 - II. King Ulászló confirms the privileges, tax and duty exemptions of the free royal city of Torda.
  • August 20, 1491 - Letter dated in Palota of donation from King Ulászló II for Matthias Petneházi, who is the deputy lord of the Bátori family in Szabolcs.
  • August 22, 1491 - A letter from King Ulászló II dated in Palota, in which István Bátori appoints a Transylvanian voivode as his ambassador for negotiations with the Germans.
  • August 24, 1491 - Letter dated in Palota attached to King Ulászló II. In front of István Bátori, judge and Transylvanian voivode, János Erdely from Somkerek and his wife, Justina, agree with Miklós, son of Mihály Zekel of Zenthiwan, and his brother, János, on the matter that the parts of Erdely in the possessions of Farago in Cluj-Napoca and Nema and Rych in Torda County are in the hands of János Erdely.
  • August 26, 1491 - In a letter from King Ulászló II in Palota to Miklós Hédervári resp. to his sons: donate to Lőrinc and Ferenc Ozora Castle with customs and several other listed names Fejér, Tolna, Somogy, Pozsega, Győr (here including Hédervára), Komárom, Moson, Vas and Bratislava county castles, villages, ius patronaus together with. He calls on the Crusader Convention in Fejérvár to register the donated in their possessions and to summon any opponents.
  • August 27, 1491 - A letter sent from the King Ulászló II to Bardejov (Bártfa). In it he sent a circular letter to the nobility of the counties of the upper parts, in which he again stated that he had entrusted the protection of the area to Szapolyai, and ordered them to join him as many armies as possible as soon as they were instructed to do so by the chief captain. If they do not obey his orders, he can seize their property in Szapolyai and imprison the recipients in person. In order to increase the authority of Szapolyai, Ulászló also gives him permission to seize the estates of the infidels and donate them to royal, worthy persons.
  • August 28, 1491 - In a letter dated in Palota, King Ulászló II instructs Lieutenant László Losonczi to provide Count István, sent to Prince Albert János, with an appropriate escort.
  • August 28, 1491 - In a letter dated in Palota, King Ulászló II ordered the Convent of Kolozsmonostor to place János Erdélyi and his brothers in Gernyeszeg Castle, which had been adopted for them by his wife, Mrs. Jusztina, and its accessories in the counties of Torda, Kolozs and Doboka.
  • 1492 - The name of Bátorkő in a charter.
  • 1493 – Palota is the property of Ulászló II.
  • 1494 - Lőrinc Újlaki pays 183 forints in tax on his estates in Palota.
  • December 27, 1494 - On this day II. Ulászló, led by his Czech bodyguards, enters the castle of Újlak, where Miklós Újlaki's widow, Dorottya Széchy, apologizes to the king. The king rejects this and haunts the widow to the castle of Palota.
  • 1495 - Lőrinc Újlaki pays HUF 169 tax on his estates in Palota.
  • End of March 1495 - Prince Lőrinc Újlaki asks for and receives grace from the king and is informed that his castles, including Palota, can only be returned to him by the Parliament.
  • 1496 - According to the order of the council sent by the Parliament, Újlaki regains his occupied castles and estates on the condition that in the event of his seedless death they would return to the Crown.
  • 1497 - The name of Bátorkő appears in a charter.

 

16th century

  • June 4, 1511 - II. The letter of King Ulászló Gábor Pécsváradi to the Franciscan vicar and Bust of Buda reveals that András Batthyány's son, Boldizsár, stated before him that his father, András's mother, Veronika had Bathyan, Chabya, Polgari, Moha, Seregeles, Athad, Barathy, Tab, Wgal, Babon, Zamard, Chaba, Kekche, Lywlya, Zala, Bewlder, Ochman, Lathran, Bewnnek, KewagoEwrs, Kwsthan in Veszprém County, ZenthJakab Castle and the associated estates in Körös County in Slavonia sealed in a cupboard and sealed in the hands of the Franciscans of Palotha. Benedek Batthyány took the diplomas from the Franciscans, knowing some of the monks of the order, to hand them over to Boldizsár without breaking the seal. Ulászló leaves it to the addressee for the monks to testify to this before Judge Ferenc Marocha.
  • June 27, 1511 - Before King Ulászló II, the judge of personnel and Slavonia, Ferenc Marocha, testifies that when he was in Buda on June 26, Boldizsár Batthyány presented II King Ulászló's charter dated June 4, 1511, in Buda, according to which Ferenc Pesthi, a priest living in the Palotha monastery, confessed that Benedek Batthyány had received the diplomas indicated in the royal command from János Szegedi and promised the monks to break the seal. without, handing it over to Batthyány Boldizsár. Priest Péter Hethes, from the Esztergom monastery, testified that last Saturday Vicar Gábor sent him to Boldizsár Batthyány to present his diplomas. John of Baranyawar, a layman from the monastery of St. John in Buda, testified that when Benedek Batthyány received the diplomas from the Guardian János Szegedi, he promised to hand them over to Boldizsár Batthyány without breaking the seal.
  • July 7, 1511 - Benedek Batthyány - in front of the Buda chapter - his sons: György, János and Orbán, and the sons of Boldizsár Batthyány: the burden of Boldizsár and Ferenc testify that he was deposited in the Franciscan monastery named after the Virgin Mary of Palotha , then through the mediation of the judges elected for the diplomas obtained by Benedek Batthyány, it was agreed to send two judges and 4 arbitrators on October 24, before which Benedek Batthyány must present all the diplomas in the Dominican monastery named after St. Nicholas of Buda. What is decided by the judges and the arbitrators must be accepted by the parties with a penalty of 2,000 gold forints. If the judges were unable to appear at that time, Benedek Batthyány would have to entrust the diplomas to the custody of a public figure chosen by the parties. Should Boldizsár Batthyány or Benedek die in the meantime, this bond will remain valid for their heirs.
  • 1514 - Under the leadership of Domonkos Sós, one of the deputy commanders of György Dózsa, the Crusaders move between Veszprém and Székesfehérvár, around the vast forest of the Bakony.
  • May 9, 1518 - The Poczman Predium of Fejér County (with an abandoned stone tower) is entrusted to the care of István Inothai, litteratus, castellan of Palota, who had performed this position honestly.
  • 1520–1525 - Pál Tomori is among the Franciscans of Palota.
  • March 2-21, 1521. - Here is the provincial of the Franciscan Salvatorians, Bernardin Somlyai, who, examining the condition of the monastery makes László Sibrik Szarvaskeddi with his four sons and their wives part of the merits of St. Francis.
  • December 8, 1522 - At the end of Pál Tomori's monastic probation, he takes the vow in the monastery in Palota.
  • Between 1523-1525 - The Buda chapter represents to King Louis II that at his command dated (between 1516 and 1526) Ferenc and Imre Ország were introduced to the goods of Miklós Újlaki, namely Wylak, Zenth Demether, Thelchak, Wywar, Nathya, Kapws Wywar, Nemethwywar, Rákos, Zeglygeth, Esegwar, Gelenczer, Gesthes, Galgoch, Themethwen and other castles, mansions, oppidums and possessions listed by name.
  • May 23, 1524 - In a letter dated in Palota of Judge Lőrinc Újlaki to the castle maid of Galgóc Castle (Nitra County), Miklós Ladonyi and his wife: Potentiána donates a house or session of their choice in Galgóc oppidum and a sermon at Thatomperk. exempts you from all fees, censuses, and services you communicate with your officials for the sake of rest. The donation is made with the right to affect the descendants of the named castle.
  • End of May - beginning of June 1524 - Prince Lőrinc Újlaki dies.
  • April 3, 1525 - The widow of Lőrinc Újlaki, Magdolna Bakács / Bakovczai marries László Móré from Csula. [2] - The parliament of Hatvan will return the Újlaki estate to the treasury later this year, but Móré will refuse to hand it over.
  • The summer of 1525 - János Szapolyai - referring to the mutual inheritance contract concluded between his father, István Szapolyai and Lőrinc Újlaki - claims his inheritance from Újlaki, which he submits to the Parliament. István Werbőczy, who was elected a palatine at the Parliament of Hatvan, set negotiations by the end of January 1526 in order to determine the needs of the Szapolyai brothers.
  • June 17, 1525 - The Convention of the Crusaders of St. Stephen's Church in Fehérvár means II. King Louis, on the order of June 14, 1525, was sent by the Sebestyén Dalmadi Crusader priest's convent on Friday (June 16) in Palotha Castle he handed over his letter of quotation to László Móré from Csula, who replied that he was always the most observant (obtemperatissimus) to the king, and that he would appear before the king at the appointed time, wherever they were.
  • February 18, 1526 - The court declares the mutual inheritance contract between István Szapolyai and Lőrinc Újlaki invalid, and thus recognizes the claim of the Parliament as legate.
  • 1528 - Palota appears on a printed map for the first time.
  • 1529 - Albert Hahóti on the palace guard in the Franciscan monastery.
  • July 13, 1529 - László Móré receives Jásd from Ferdinand I for his "faithful services".
  • 1531 - Móré László sets up his residence in Palota and carries out modernizations. A letter from Tamás Nádasdy also refers to this, in which he asks Móré to send the Franciscus Italicus murator (Francesco Fiorentino), who works at Palota, to Zalavár.
  • March 3, 1532 - Albert Derezslényi, an agg provincial elected in Oradea the previous year, dies at Palota after becoming seriously ill during a visit to the monastery.
  • April 28, 1532 - The Holy Spirit guard Imre Veresfalvi convenes the Franciscan voting fathers on this day on behalf of the dying, who elects Imre Asszonyfalvi for the remaining two years.
  • April 14, 1533 - King John (János) I orders Jeromos Laszki to besiege Palota, from where Móré fought a private war against both kings. A Turkish auxiliary team led by Hassan Beg (Siege of Palota (1533)) also joined Laszki's army.
  • End of May 1533 - Leaving the castle of Móré, the castle and its two children escape. The castle falls after the castle wall collapses after being mined. This is one of the first mine battles in Hungary, during which fifty Czech miners Jeromos Laszki mined and blew up the walls. John (János) I donates the castle to Laszki.
  • End of May 1533 - Simultaneously with the occupation of the castle, Turkish auxiliary troops overthrew the Franciscan monastery. In the process, András Vásárhelyi and two of his fellow police officers, Péter Biai and András Maczolai / Mocsolyai, were killed. A considerable part of Palota's population is chained.
  • June 8, 1533 - We know from the letter of the Croatian Ban Simon Erdődi of June 9 that the Hungarian-Turkish army occupying Palota returned to Buda on this day. In the eyes of King John I, ships loaded with prisoners from Palota (also) set off from the port in the direction of Osijek.
  • 1535 - The Franciscan monastery is inhabited by 13 monks: seven of them are mass priests (Mátyás Ebreczi convent leader (gvárdián), Mihály Erdődi and Ferenc Újlaki preachers, as well as Demeter Fejérvári, János Fejérvári, Balázs Gadócsi, Miklós Bakai confessors) and six helping brothers.
  • 1536 - 9 inhabited and 5 uninhabited plots are recorded in Sechel, as well as 6 poor serfs.
  • September 30, 1537 – Castle of Palota after the betrayal of János Laszki - by the donation of John (János) I is the Protestant Podmaniczky brothers’ (János and Rafael). Based on the donation letter from Oradea (Nagyvárad), for the merits he gained in the castle fights in Trenčín (Trencsén) County, subject to the conditions for the redemption of the castle Bátorkő is mentioned as a depopulated castle.
  • December 11, 1537 - Bishop Márton Kecsethy informs Wilhelm von Roggendorf, commander-in-chief of Ferdinand I, in a letter that the soldiers of János Podmaniczky had been pushed back into Palota and eight prisoners had been taken.
  • 1539 - Bátorkő is mentioned as a depopulated castle in a charter.
  • August 19-21, 1539 - János Podmaniczky and Raffael will be included in the ownership of Palota, to which, among others, Inota and Pét belong.
  • 1543 - The Turks bypass Palota. Ulama is besieged under the leadership of the Bosnian Beg. Franciscan life ceases. János Podmaniczky leaves Palota, entrusting its protection to János Meznyánszky.
  • 1543 - According to the census of the dictator Lázár Literátus of Szentágota, Gyón, Csór, Isztimér, Mellár, Balinka and Inota belong to Palota. According to this census, Inota has 8 gates, 1 judge, 2 poor people, and Inota belongs to the district of Gergely Cseh, a county judge, this year.
  • December 24, 1544 - Podmaniczkys swear allegiance to Ferdinand I in a Catholic way.
  • 1544 - Mention of Bátorkő.
  • 1546 - Death of János Podmaniczky.
  • 1547 - The castle of Palota is protected by 80 infantry and 100 cavalry soldiers.
  • March 24, 1549 - Rafael Podmaniczky informs the Council of Governors that he refuses to give anything for Palota, but takes it from him if he is charged.
  • July 3, 1549 - The Podmaniczky family agrees with the Court to hand over Palota, but the actual handover is postponed for ten years. The Podmaniczkys nevertheless move permanently from Palota to Bistrița (Beszterce).
  • 1549 - The Turkish Veliszian, under the leadership of the Beggar of Fehérvár, unsuccessfully besieges Palota.
  • 1552 - János Meznyánszky, Palota’s palace captain, attacks Fehérvár.
  • October 17, 1554 - Arslan Johoglli Beg breaks into the hussar castle of Palota and returns to Fehérvár with a large booty.
  • August 31, 1555 - Led by Arslan, the Turkish in Fehérvár sneak under Palota unsuccessfully besieging Palota.
  • March 2, 1556 - There are 150 Hungarian infantry and 76 hussars in Palota.
  • 1558 - Ferenc Újfalussy is the castle captain.
  • September 8, 1558 - At the invitation of Rafael Podmaniczky and his wife, Johanna Lomniczai, György Thury accepts the economic administration of Palota area.
  • Around February 9, 1559 - Rafael Podmaniczky dies seedless, making Palota a Royal castle from a landlord's private castle. This year, the last data on Szélhely (Zenhel) and Bátorkő will appear.
  • March 29, 1559 - Captain Vince Gregoróczy prepares an inventory.
  • 1561 - Hamza beg of Székesfehérvár tries to occupy the castle from Thury by trick.
  • 1563–1567 - According to the Turkish tax census (deftere) of the náhije of Palota, 10 houses are taxed in Palota. Your tax is 50 shares. (about 1 Hungarian forint). (Beggar khasa).
  • June 17, 1565 - Fifty Hungarian infantry arrive at Palota.
  • June 5, 1566 - Pasha Arslan surrounds Palota with 8,000 people.
  • Night of June 15, 1566 - On the news of the arrival of the rescuing army, the besiegers withdraw from the castle.
  • After June 17, 1566 - the commanders of the armies gathered under Palota, Ferenc Török (György Thury, László Gyualffy, György Helffenstein, Salm Eck, etc.) held a meeting on further military goals.
  • June 29, 1566 - Commander-in-Chief Salm Eck - agreeing with the proposal of the Hungarian commanders - leads the army against the castle of Veszprém, which he also occupies on June 30.
  • 1567 - György Thury leaves Palota, his immediate successor is his nephew, Márton Thury.
  • June 30, 1567 - György Thury's older brother, Benedek Thury, receives instructions from Vienna as the captain of Palota.
  • Early July 1567 - with the 17th Act of 1567, the Bratislava Parliament divided the occupation villages of Fejér County to the Palota’s border castle for free work.
  • Early January 1569 - Benedek Thury drove "eight plow beasts" from the people of Battyán. Polgárdi was upset by the soldiers of Palota.
  • 1572 - Giulio Turco prepares the floor plan of Palota’s castle.
  • 1573 - According to a local record, the income from the bull money of the Palota (“fortune fine”) is 100 forints a year, while the landlord's mill brings 134 forints!
  • September 4, 1573 - Tamás Pálffy follows Benedek Thury as captain
  • 1574 - Wolf Jobst, a construction clerk from Győr, resides in Palota.
  • May 13, 1576 - The Turks of Fehérvár attack Palota, capture 10 Hungarian soldiers and prey on 30 horses.
  • August 18, 1576 - The guards of Palota and Veszprém go under Fehérvár and drive out the herd of Fehérvár. The Turks follow after them and drive back some of the cattle.
  • Before June 30, 1580. - The castle is burning. The Beg of Fehérvár attacked the lit palace castle.
  • August 20, 1581 - Tamás Pálffy Erdődi dies.
  • 1582 - Péter Ormándy is the castle captain
  • 1583 - István Istvánffy, the captain of the castle in Veszprém, and the captains of the neighboring castles carry out a serious weapon act, during which Ali Koppányi's beige is captured. Led by Captain Péter Ormándy, 60 palace hussars and an infantry squadron play a decisive role in the action.
  • October 3, 1584 - István Istvánffy receives the appointment of the palace captain.
  • End of 1584 - István Istvánffy dies unexpectedly.
  • January 28, 1585 - The king appoints John Bornemissza of Thengeld as captain of Palota.
  • July 11, 1585 - At the solemn inauguration of John of Bornemissza in Thengeld, the war master receives written instructions.
  • 1586 - Pasha Ali of Buda attacks the castle, János Bornemissza defends it without major losses.
  • January 26, 1588 - Péter Ormándy is the castle captain again.
  • 1588 - The Turks skewer the judge of the village of Inota and impose a tribute on the population.
  • February 12, 1591 - King Rudolf of Hungary's letter in Prague to Fernando Samaria de Specia Casa, captain of Veszprém and Péter Ormándy, captain of Palota to protect the Hungarian captain of Győr, Kristóf Horváth, against Péter Eörsy in the “mother castle”.
  • October 9, 1593 - Pasha Sinan occupies Palota after the defenders abandon the castle on the condition of free retreat. However, the Turks attack the returnees that the castle captain, Péter Ormándy, can hardly escape. Ormándy is imprisoned by the Győr headquarters for giving up the castle.
  • July 1598 - Palota is recaptured from the Turks by the combined army of Miklós Pálffy and Adolf Schwarzenberg.
  • Around 1600 - Miklós Istvánffy also records events related to Palota.

 

17th century

  • September 3, 1600 - István Palotay writes a letter to Farkas Starsith Deputy Chief Captain from Palota.
  • 1601 - Captain István Palotay leaves the castle with his hussars for an unknown reason, so Captain Gáspár Horváth is placed there.
  • Mid-March 1601 - An army of 400 Turks from Fehérvár rushes into Palota, but sixty of their dead are forced to retreat.
  • August 12, 1602 - Gáspár Horváth, commander of the Castle of Palota, reports to Győr that the Turks are besieging Székesfehérvár today. The Turks are also tempting Palota this year.
  • 1605 - Tamás Horváth, the confidant of István Bocskai, comes to Transdanubia with 160 horsemen to join the Transdanubian Bocskai party. On the way to Székesfehérvár, where he wanted to negotiate with the Sandzakbeg, bypassing the castle of Veszprém, they leave the Palace, and then call on its captain, Gáspar Horváth, to stand for the party of Prince István Bocskai. However, Gáspár Horváth rejected the call, saying: “Who should be the pious Bocskai, I do not know his person, I did not see his letter, I did not understand his wish. Don't bother an ambassador if you want the castle, because it will have almost the same answer as a third of Wednesday Hassan was bass ... I was never a traitor in my nation, I don't want to be the first! ”
  • June 5, 1605 - According to the record of István Szamosközy, Palota is in power of Bocskai at that time.
  • 1608 - Palota in Turkish hands. Under the command of Turkish castle commander Schemann, 91 cavalry, 102 infantry and 13 artillery are on duty.1614 - Paul Zichy I becomes the owner and captain of the Palace, who in 1620 was handed over to the chief captains of Bethlen by the guard of the Veszprém castle (Reformed).
  • 1617 - Inota is depopulated.
  • September 28, 1620 - After Gábor Bethlen launched another attack on Transdanubia with an army of 8,000, all the castles of the Győr headquarters, including the Palace (Pápa, Veszprém), were taken over by the leaders of Péter Haller and György Fekete.
  • 1621 - Bethlen renounces the castle in peace at Nikolsburg.
  • July 29, 1622 - Lord of Palota is Cziráky Moses through the donation of Ferdinand II. Cziráky also takes possession of Inota. In the same year Ferdinánd II rewrites Várpalota and his estates (for example Inota) according to the value of 6000 HUF to Mózes Cziráky for his much harm suffered during the Gábor Bethlen movement.
  • 1624 - Paul Zichy is the castle captain again, but is placed because of complaints against him.
  • 1628–1660 - Palota in Turkish hands.
  • 1630 - 200 Turkish guards in the castle.
  • 1630 - Mózes Cziráky did not pay the 6,000 forint to Ferdinand II. And he never accepted the donated estates. After his death, his wife, Zsuzsanna Káldy, claimed this estate against the bishop of Veszprém, and when the latter complained to the chamber, the Chamber sent Péter Laszy to Palota in 1630 against the possession of Zsuzsanna Káldy to hand over the estates belonging to the Palota’s Castle to Zsuzsanna Káldy with the exception of Ősi and Hajmáskér, which is “ab antiquo jure”,belong to the diocese of Veszprém under old law.
  • December 12, 1630 - Péter Laszy officially proclaims the king's will to leave the Palota and the estates belonging to the Palota’s Castle described above, including Inota, in the hands of Zsuzsanna Káldy for the above 1000 Hungarian forints. Both parties are dissatisfied with the verdict. The bishop is not given back all his possessions, and Zsuzsanna Káldy is annoyed by the 1000 HUF considered illegal.
  • 1646 - Márton Vajtai’s (hajdú from Veszprém) poetic letter to Veszprém hajdás to Palota’s Turks entitled " To Palota’s robber Turks".
  • July 21, 1647 - In a letter to László Esterházy written by Ádám Batthyány, we are informed of the following:
  • 600 cavalry and infantry soldiers from Veszprém went to Palota, but most of them were expelled from the castle.
  • “One of my good and valiant servant was shot and he died, and two others were wounded; they are in one and two other rooms for a shot; I do not know if the lame ones can be healed, they are also very valiant lads, and who died was called Jobbagi Istok, who I certainly felt very sorry for, but that is how it used to be in the Turks. Sixteen prisoners were brought, and so many heads. ”
  • 1648 - Knight's song about György Thury.
  • April 20, 1650 - III. Ferdinánd donates Palota and its castle area to István I. Zichy.
  • 1650–1660 - Evilija Cselebi, a Turkish historian, notes about Palota. Miklós Zrínyi sings about Palota and György Thury
  • 1660 – Palota is in Hungarian hands.
  • 17-25 May 1664 - Decree to Hajji Mustafa's pasha, the Sandzakbeg of the Sandzak in Székesfehérvár: after receiving his report on the collapse of the castle of Palota, he instructed the Buda mueselli (ie the deputy of the beglerbeg) to send lime from the Buda region to repair the castle.
  • July 1664 - Tatar and Turkish troops gathering at Székesfehérvár advance to Palota in the hands of the Turks. Starting from here, they make further Transdanubian movements. In the ranks of the army was Evlia Cselebi, the great Turkish world traveler who described the campaign. First of all, he wrote about Palota Castle: "Palota Castle ... It currently belongs to the sub-part of Székesfehérvár (military district) in the Buda prefecture (province). Its castle is a rectangular, strong castle at the edge of Palota Hill. Its gate is on the east side, and in front of it there are about two hundred small houses, granaries and Murad khanamami (the former medieval chapel) in the castle. they receive their wages and food from the Buda Defterdars. The gardens and fields of this city are such that there is no shortage of crops; they have many pears in particular.
  • 1669 - Palota again falls into the hands of the Turks.
  • 1672 - Pasha Ottoman, a Bosnian Christian parent, later deputy grand vizier, commander of a team of Palota guards, the Bostanji basi.
  • May 29, 1675 - Ibrahim (Fehérvár's main sanjak bey) is sanjak bey of "Csíkvár, Palota and Csóka”.
  • January 30, 1680 - The Hungarian army of the border castles of Veszprém, Tihany and Vázsony raided around castle of Palota. In the cavalry battle on the eastern edge of Berhida, at the bridge of the Séd stream, among others, Captain Ferenc Sempthey died a heroic death, whose head is taken by the Turks of Palota. These skirmishes are already predicting the beginning of another war.
  • June 23, 1683 - The Turkish armies reach Palota on this day, then on the 24th the general of the Thököly pro-armies, Ferenc Barkóczy, goes to Veszprém Castle. (The Turkish army is concentrated in Belgrade on May 13, 1683, where the sultan appoints Grandmaster Kara Mustafa pasha as the general commander of the campaign. A few days later, on June 7, Prince Imre Thököly's Hungarian troops join the Turkish army at Osijek.)
  • September 24, 1683 - In a letter dated that day, Captain Ferenc Babocsay of Veszprém praised his military activities: and there would be a selection of the better, such as Kara Oglu, the palace agate named Besvar, and twelve of Palota;
  • October 17, 1687 - János Esterházy surrounds the castle with 3,000 men. Five Haiduks die from the ranks of the besieging Hungarian troops. Gabrieli Rafael, also known as frater Gábor Tüzes, also takes part in the siege.
  • October 20, 1687 - Colonel János Ariezaga of Spanish origin arrives from Komárom with some cannons, as a result of which the castle-protecting Turks surrender.
  • October 22, 1687 - The Turks give up the castle. End of the Turkish occupation of Palota
  • The castle is left by 68 armed men, 97 women and 39 children, who are accompanied by the army all the way to Buda, from where they are transported by ship to Turkish territory.
  • The captain of the castle of Palota became the holder of Csór, Bálint Szegedi.
  • January 20, 1688 - A Janissary fleeing Székesfehérvár appears at Palota and asks for protection. This Turk offers Lieutenant Colonel Ernő Bisztercky to show the weak points of Castle of Fehérvár; late January - early February 1688About 200 urban soldiers make up the west wing of the urban blockade. End of January, 1688 - The Hungarian commander in Zsámbék sent two chariots of wheat out of mercy to the Turks of Fehérvár. Therefore, the commander of the Palota’s blockade, Lieutenant Colonel Ernő Biszterczky, recommended to the military council that he be severely punished.
  • September 9, 1688 - The chamberlain of Székesfehérvár, a new provisor: Gabriel Kranzer, complains that only Hungarian Haiduks and Hungarian Hussars are stationed in Csókakő and Palota, who were more dangerous to the Germans here than the Turks. "Csókakő and Palota would be strategically dangerous for Fehérvár if a Hungarian uprising broke out."
  • September 4, 1690 - The 600 hussars arriving at the camp of Palota, whose musters will be held the next day. Namely István Zichy II. at the time of the recruitment forthe Serbian campaign of 1690 undertook to equip 1,000 Haiduks and 600 riders, so that the soldiers would receive two months 'money and three months' post in advance.
  • July 10, 1692 - At the first inaugural meeting of the re-established Fejér county, which takes place in Székesfehérvár there are among others, Imre Zichy of Vázsonykő and István Zichy Jr. the golden-spotted heroes of Majesty, Bálint Szegedi, the commander of the castle of Palota, István Sallay, bailiff of mentioned counts Imre and István Zichy, Ferenc Budai,the deputy commander of the castle of Palota.
  • August 28, 1692 - Ferenc Horváthy Disznóssy admits in a letter to Komárom that " he received two hundred and fifty forints from Gáspár Babóczay officer there of His Grace Lady Noble Kata Küs Faludy wife of Bálint Szegedi captain of Palota”.
  • October 4, 1692 - Ferenc Horváthy Disznóssy receives 30 forints from Bálint Szegedi, which he acknowledges in a letter.
  • November 13, 1693 - A noble assembly is held in the free royal city of Székesfehérvár, where, among others, Bálint Szegedi, the captain of Palota garrison, is also present.
  • December 10, 1693 - December 15 - A noble assembly is held in the free royal city of Székesfehérvár, where, among others, Bálint Szegedi, the captain of the palace garrison, is also presented. They decide that an investigation should be carried out in the case of the villages previously separated from County Fejér: Tác, Kovácsi, Palota! A letter must be sent to Pápa, County Veszprém. István Újvári protests on behalf of Counts Imre and IstvánZichyCsernye, Jásd, Pacsman, Alley, Master, Emperor, Csöp, Dolosd, Isztimér, Kúti, Eszény, Gyón, Alsó (Lower) Inota, Fölső (Upper) Inota, Mellár, Csősz, Bála, Tenyő, Öskü, Palota and Csesznek because of the steppes among them.
  • 1694 - Reformed parochial house, parish built of wood and hedge in Inota.
  • 5 January - 7 January 1694 - The General Assembly of Fejér County states that a letter should be written to Count Imre Zichy about the abandoned villages of Palota and Tác, which now belong to Fejér County, to present their old letters of donation and certify them as soon as possible that the ambassadors to be sent to Vienna can use the most effective documents to advance the request of the noble county.
  • At the request of Mr. Leistner, the same assembly sends the district administrator to Palota to look for the imperial oxen at Mihály Szabó and the thirtieth of this place, who accuses him, to investigate the matter and then report to the county. The district administrator should also warn the lords of Palota to take care to keep the oxen left there. If they perished, they are accountable for them.
  • January 18, 1694 - January 19 - Pek Commissioner Pest arrives in Székesfehérvár to inspect the county's premises and military accommodation. At the noble assembly, district administrator Mihály Kolosváry and Bálint Szegedi captain of Palota undertake to present the quota and feeding of the oxen.
  • November 27, 1694 - When Sándor Besnyák, the military commissioner of County Fejér, is expelled from the office of military commissioner, the Palotians kindly let him in, but with the permission of the German officer, the Germans oppose him. Lieutenant General István Zichy from Győr and Veszprém County must be informed about this and asked to be punished.
  • January 31, 1695 - According to the documents of the Fejér County Assembly, Counts Imre Zichy and István banish the Palotians and the Csórians from Rétipuszta through provisor Demeter Sallay, under the burden of losing all their cattle and goods found here, and ask for a certificate.
  • 1696 - According to the census, we can already find the following inhabitants in Inota: Judge: Mihály Tóth; residents: János Németh, János Kovács, Benedek Molnár, Péter Szabó, József Kis, András Ihász, József Németh, József Szabó, István Hamar, István Dömöky, István Szabó, Mihály Hamar, Gergely Bodai, András Szabó, Lukács Szabó. The village of Inota was then Pál Zichy’s.
  • 1698 - A total of nine hussars and sixty-seven infantry inhabitants lived in 188 small houses of the castle and the outer castle under the command of Captain Márton Patonai and infantry voivode Gergely Kéri (nine royal liberals also lived in the town).
  • March 1, 1698 - The first agreement with Count István Zichy (II.): The inhabitants of Palota are not serfs, but “Palota’s Army or Free Order”. Under the four-year agreement, settlers are exempt from all services for this time.
  • 1699 – Imre Zichy (II.) brings the first settlers to Inota.
  • March 21, 1699 - On this day, almost two months after the Karlóca peace, the Court Military Council ordered the demolition of the smaller castles of the main capitals of Kanizsa and Győr, including the castles of Pápa, Palota, Veszprém, Vázsony, Tihany. At the same time, it provides for the dismissal of the army of the former border forts and orders that, at the same time, the Tisza and Maros border guards be established on the southern border borders with the Turkish Empire.
  • 1699–1702 - The conversion of the Palota Castle into a Baroque castle begins. Archaeological excavations show that the southern wing of the castle, the castle chapel and the two southern towers were raised by two floors. In addition to transporting the artillery, the castle will be demolished with a strong beam structure and the moat surrounding the castle will be filled. According to a survey by military engineer Dumont, it took 2 miners, 18 masons, 6 masons, 2 carpenters, 200 shovels, 200 picks and 300 workers to demolish the 5 small rondelles surrounding the castle and bury the ditch in poor condition.
  • 1700 - Separation of Protestant denominations. A Reformed church is being built on the east side of the castle gate. The Lutherans invite András Bearded Molitoris as their first pastor. A Lutheran member of the church, Péter Konkolos, gives a “school room” in his own house.

 

18th century

  • January 5, 1701 - The landlords report on their estates to the Fejér County General Assembly, where György Bedl, the official of the palace estate, testifies to the palaces and steppes belonging to Palota, which are partly owned by Count Imre Zichy, they are under pledge that the counts have the right to purchase from the Hungarian Chamber. He also presents the relevant documents.
  • February 4, 1702 - Emperor Leopold (Lipót) orders the demolition of the castle of Palota. The county is appealing the decision at the papal assembly.
  • April 1702 - According to a survey by military engineer Nicolas Dumont, 2 miners, 18 masons, 6 stonemasons, 2 carpenters, 200 shovels, 200 picks and 300 workers were needed to demolish the 5 small rondelles surrounding the castle and bury the ditch in poor condition. The military engineer also considered it necessary to note that the Zichys’ Castle was not really a defensible place, but if the Court Military Council decided to demolish it, the work would take more than 30 days.
  • May 1702 - Letter from the Zichy family to the Court Military Council to retain his residence of Palota.
  • November 1702 - Second letter from the Zichy family to the Court Military Council to retain his residence of Palota.
  • 1703 - A Lutheran schoolhouse is built east of the parochial house (where a bakery stood in the 1940s). Its construction is named after the pastor Sámuel Molnár (Molitorisz). The artillery is removed from the castle of Palota, and then the strong beam structure is demolished and the moat surrounding the castle is filled. January 22, 1704 - Heister takes over the command of the imperial armies in Hungary, then sets up a camp between Pét, Palota and Berhida. February 1704 - At the command of General Sándor Károlyi, former border guard officers gather the former border guard soldiers. Many people stand in front of Gergely Bódy, a cavalry lieutenant. Castle of Palota is in Kuruc hands. May 1704 - Heister fails to besiege the castle. End of March 1705 - Palota is in imperial hands.
  • November 1705 - The right wing and waist army of Bottyán's army take over Palota.
  • 1707 – Pál Ember in his completed church history already completed in 1707 (Historia Ecclesiae Reformatae in Hungaria et Transylvania… nunc autem accessionibus multis locupletata et hoc ordine concinnata in Frid. Adolpho Lampe. Trajecti ad Rh., Utrecht 1728, 657) mentions Inota among the congregations of the Reformed Diocese of Veszprém.
  • End of April 1707 - Bottyán orders the demolition of the fortifications around the town Pápa (outer castle), and at the same time orders the fortification of the fortifications of Sümeg and Palota. At the same time, the gunpowder making workshop was developed in the castle of Palota.
  • July 1, 1707 - Pfeffershofen commander of Buda begins the siege of the castle with an army of 1000 pro-Hapsburg (Labanc)-German-Serbian, four cannons, but Brigadier Ferenc Domokos successfully defends it with 90 Hiduks and the population trapped within the castle walls. Palota’s women are among the defenders. Ádám Béri Balog also provides rescue assistance to the Palace. After the unsuccessful siege, the imperial army "burned the town", according to János Bottyán's report of July 3, 1707.
  • 1708 - Ammunition is made in the castle, four guns of gunpowder, two hundred grenades and a chest of lead bullets are transported from here to Brigadier Antal Greiner, Simontornya.
  • Early August 1709 – Heister defeats the kuruc army of Lieutenant General Antal Esterházy in front of Palota.
  • 1710 - The Catholic parish of Várpalota is founded.
  • 1711 - Imperial General Rabutin blows up the north tower of the castle, which loses its military significance after the fall of the War of Independence.
  • February 28, 1711 - New agreement with the lord, Imre Zichy (II.) and János Zichy (III.).
  • 1712 - Together with their preacher, András Molitoris (Molnár), the Hungarian-speaking Lutherans leaving Csót (Várpalota?) anchored in Pincehely for a short time in 1712.
  • 1715 – Palota market town ("oppidum") can hold three national fairs a year from this year onwards. The Palota has 125 families, 115 houses and 26 craftsmen.
  • 1715 - According to the national census, the names of Inota's taxpayers: Joannes Bodai, Joannes Szabó, Stephanus Farkas, Georgius Hamar, Stephanus Kis, Stephanus Hamar, Andreas Berta, Stephanus Solymos, Joannes Nemét, Michael Hamar, Michael Horvath.
  • 1716 – Citizens of Palota state that they pay a maximum of 600 forints a year in two installments, besides nothing.
  • 1720 - A Roman Catholic school operates in the palace. The number of craftsmen is 36
  • 1720 – Listed taxpayers in Inota: Georgius Hamar, Michael Hamar, Stephanus Farkas, Stephanus Kiss, Michael Szabó, Joannes Baday. Listed cottars in Inota: Joannes Németh, Michael Meszaros, Stephanus Solymos, Andreas Berta, Georgius Horvath, Georgius Lukacs, Stephanus Takacs.
  • 1721 – A reeligious inquiry is conducted in Inota in which Reformed people are interrogated as witnesses.
  • 1722–1727 - Construction of the Zichy Castle.
  • May 1, 1727 - Ádám Acsády Bishop of Veszprém consecrates the ground floor chapel in honor of Archangel Gábor.
  • Around 1730 - Construction of the Korona restaurant begins (probably built by John Zichy III or John Zichy IV). By agreement with the town, the pub of the town (the wine of the town was measured) for four months of the year, and the pub for the lordship for the rest of the year.
  • Around 1730 - A schoolhouse is built on today's Kossuth Street.
  • June 5, 1732 – Countess János Zichy entrusts the construction of the Palota’s inn to the master mason Paul Hatzinger from Székesfehérvár.
  • November 3, 1733 - A public statue of St. John of Nepomuk is erected.
  • April 5, 1734 - 1735 - Count János Zichy contracts master mason Paul Hatzinger to build new rooms for the castle of Palota and to renovate thecastle of Palota.
  • 1735 - After a shepherd named Matthias Arhold builds the nave and tower of the church in Inota, it is personally consecrated by Bishop Ádám Acsády from Veszprém.
  • 1738 - Maria Anna von Thalheim builds a chapel in the cemetery on the ruins of a Franciscan monastery.
  • October 1, 1740 - A treaty is again made between Palota and Count Zichy after the count tries to increase the burden on the population.
  • 1744 - Inota has 67 house numbers with 67 taxpayers, plus 37 serfs, 25 boys under sixteen, 4 daughters, 2 brothers, 26 celery, 31 akos, and 4 servants. The livestock of the village was 134 oxen, 46 dairy cows, 37 harnessed horses, 7 tines and 61 pigs. The inhabitants of Inota cultivated 338 and 1/3 secondary arable land, 112 acres of third-order meadows, and a few acres of vineyards. The surnames in the tax register: Bencze, Bodai, Hamar, Károly, Kuthi, Mészáros, Pátkay, Sándor, Szabó, Szarka, Zugor.
  • 1746 - This year the number of houses is 307, the number of taxpayers is 409, the number of craftsmen is 146. There are seven Jewish families in Palota at this time.
  • October 1, 1746 - Mary Talheim dies at Palota. On the same day, another letter of agreement is made with the lords: János Zichy (IV.) and István Zichy (IV.).
  • February 25, 1747 - Márton Bíró Padányi visits Inota, and his church visit lists Catholic families: Berta, Bódai, Csaráczki, Eck, Hegedűs, Horvát, Kapocs, Kecskés, Kerekes, Court, Lukáts, Luták, Paur and Perdmár. The population of Catholics, according to the protocol, consists of 85:34 married people and 51 children.
  • June 1749 - The Catholic, Reformed and Lutheran churches organize action against the sin of swearing.
  • 1752 - The boundary between Inota and Istimér is fixed at the request of Counts János and István Zichy.
  • 1753 - The archive is built in the castle under the leadership of Ferenc Thomka.
  • 1753 - Land dispute between Palota’s and Csór’s citizens. The men of István Zichy's Palota’s landlord not only drive the gulls out of the disputed land, but capture them with armed hands and take them to the Palota’s castle, where they are imprisoned and handcuffed for seven weeks and then kept there for four and a half weeks. In the meantime, they don’t even give them food, just what their relatives take from Csór.
  • 1754 - Palota and Inota dig a canal in Sárrét. The boundaries of the two villages are being clarified.
  • 1754–1770 - Conquest of the Mud Meadow (Sárrét).
  • 1756 - Willow trees are planted on the border of Palota and Ősi thus clarifying the border. The number of houses is 376.
  • 1757 - The number of Roman Catholic families is 259.
  • 1758 – Stone-walled Rom. Cath. school is built instead of the mud- walled.
  • 1759 - The number of craftsmen in the guild is 193, that of peasants 263, that of celery 110, that of Jews 16, that of Greeks 2. The number of houses is 503, that of taxpayers 458.
  • 1760 - A judge in Inota beats Pál Zalka, a shepherd from Csór, who grazed in the area rented by the Csór’s citizens.
  • 1763 - It is added to the name of the Lutheran pastor István Nagy that the old and largely “schoolhouse” made of hedges is rebuilt of stone.
  • 1765 - The Zichys from Polány settle the expelled Protestant (Lutheran) population of Polány in Inota. They install a completely separate street with them, which to this day is called Polyán Street. New settlers receive the Cutting (“Irtás”) lands and enjoy a five-year tax exemption.
  • 1765 - Countess Friderika Schmidegg "cleaned and repaired the whole castle".
  • July 28, 1768 - Another agreement with the Zichys, which is sent to Maria Theresia for approval and insight. The Queen declares the Letter of Covenant eternal in an order. (This is the Ratification of the Treaty of 1746.) [3]
  • December 15, 1768 - The last agreement between the market town and the Zichys is now returned to the county and the Zichys with the approval of Maria Theresia.
  • April 7, 1769 - In her decree dated that day, Maria Theresia also notices Palota as one of the post office stations.
  • June 21, 1769 - The royal approval of the treaty was made public to citizens of Palota in the presence of county seconded and manorial officials.
  • July 2, 1769 - Not resigning on the Queen's decision Countess Friderika Schmidegg, second wife of János Zichy IV. asks daymen from the city council, which refuses to do so. In response, the Countess arrests the delegation, nearly dragging the judge to bench. At night, the townspeople march demonstratively in front of the castle, before the countess asks the county for help.
  • 1769 - In the wake of the events, the desperate citizenship accuses the Countess of the Queen, and the Countess presents the “renitent” town to her throne. Although the citizenship unanimously confesses to the throne that he was not the intellectual author of the movement, but that the city decided its actions unanimously, the landlord still called for deportation, imprisonment, dragging to bench, and so on. condemns forced labor to the prestigious citizens it has designated.
  • 1770 - By order of Countess Friderika Schmidegg, the equipment of the church in Inota is delivered to the chapel of Palota’s castle under the direction of the palace parish priest István Giczey. (At this time, Palota does not yet have a church for the Catholic community.)
  • 1772 - "Diggers from Tata" are asked to clean the „Fürdőkúti és Csákányhídi” canals.
  • 1773–1774 - The sewerage cleaning works of the „Fürdőkút and the Csákányhíd” take place, making Sárrét "practicable".
  • 1774 - Number of houses 460
  • June 5, 1775 - Inota and Palota fight for border dispute.
  • 1776 - A protocol is drawn up according to which the people of the Ösküs dug into the pasture of Palota around Lake Kikeri all the way to the Old Cser, and vice versa, they also "slipped towards Öskü". With the help of the county, the matter is clarified.
  • 1777 - Beginning of construction of today's Catholic church.
  • May 6, 1777 - At the initiative of Pastor Paul Lamb in Senitz, the Lutheran congregation decides to build a new (stone) church 10 feet long and 5 feet wide. Count István Zichy, who lives in Bratislava (Pozsony), voluntarily undertakes to support the case.
  • 1778 - At the request of the lord, the king takes the forest of „Várberek” from the townspeople.
  • 1778 - The number of Lutheran believers in Palota: 961, the number of Lutherans in Inota: 70.
  • February 24, 1778 - Schmidegg Friderika dies in Győr.
  • June 22, 1778 - The answer arrives for the Lutheran Church, in which the Council of Governors, on behalf of Maria Theresa, authorizes the construction of a church of the required size.
  • April 29, 1779 - The Minutes of Church Visitation, dated this day, mention two branches of the Palota’s parish: the Inota and the Pét. The record states that Inota then had 180 inhabitants, 120 of whom were Catholics.
  • March 18, 1779 - The foundation stone of the Lutheran church is laid. Despite his Catholic religion, István Zichy supports the aspirations of Lutherans.
  • 1779 - Based on the plans of Ferenc Bőhm, the great Sárvíz canal is completed. Inota has a population of 180 people.
  • November 1, 1780 - The got ready Lutheran church is consecrated by the Right Reverend Gábor Perlaky, Superintendent, in Psalm 48, 4 and II. Samuel with his solemn speech based on 7.2.Local pastors, Theofil Mezibrodszky from Öskü, István Nagy from Szentlőrinc and Sámuel Horváth also takes part in the consecration.
  • 1781–1786 - István Kiss's credentialed notary's records, minutes, statements, decades of documents
  • 1781 - The number of taxpayers is 675, the number of houses is 637.
  • February 6, 1781 - Pál Bajza, Count Miklós Zichy's Lutheran accountant, receives a "mourning aria" from Bishop Gábor Perlaky in a letter to find in the Graduate, "which poem goes on which song, and shows it to my archivist Mrs. Kozma and when the great count would be in such a good mood as to present the Hungarian kindness bitter sent from a Hungarian patriot. ”
  • 1784 - The Reformed people of Inota renovate the pastor's house built in 1694.
  • 1785 - II. József's census in Palota market town enumerated 2009 male residents, of which 135 are nobles.
  • 1786 - The Inota Reformed Stone Church is rebuilt.
  • 1788 - The construction of today's (várpalotai) Reformed church begins.
  • April 9, 1788 - Inota is torn from the parish of Palota after lengthy negotiations and attached as a branch to the parish of Csór. All this happens in the presence of József Szabó, vicearchidiaconus (bishop), about which Bishop Ignác Nagy (1777–1789) informs Bishop József Bajzáth (1777–1802) of Veszprém in a letter and asks him to instruct the priest of Palota about himfinal status.
  • June 30, 1788 - An Inotan protocol is recorded about the equipment of the Inotan church delivered to the Palota’s castle chapel in 1770.
  • 1788–1795 - Operation of György Hrabowszky at Palota.
  • 1789 - György Hrabowszky compiles school regulations for the Lutheran school.
  • March 1789 - A sermon is held for the first time in the Reformed Church in Inota on the occasion of the funeral of Istvánné Maros (Mrs. Maros), according to the relevant Lutheran registry entry.
  • 1790 - Consecration of the Reformed Church ( in Várpalota). On this occasion the following songs are sung: from the Psalms XCVI.5.6. verse Sing, CXXII. I rejoice in my heart, XXVII. I wanted one thing, XLIII. To the altar of God, LXV. Javaival. Then of the praises: 269. We go ahead for, Our hearts rejoice, 315. You are holy forever, 266. Give praise. In addition, two occasional songs were sung by the rector (teacher) of Fodor Veszprém with his four students from Veszprém.
  • In the same year they fill the position of second teachers of the Lutheran congregation: the rector teaches the boys, the preceptor teaches the girls.
  • 1793 - On the initiative of György Hrabowszky, the construction of an orphanage begins.
  • Master of boots György N. Szigethy adds the area, to which the Zichy lord also joins with his own land and offering the amount of wood needed for the building.
  • September 1795 - Count László Festetics travels through the Palota togetherJózsef Takáts and notes the following: „Palota is a market town, it lays in a nice place, it has ….buildings and it belongs to Count István Zitsi. He has a beautiful castle here. ”
  • July 14, 1797 - István V. Zichy orders the extermination of the number of sheep and goats above the number allowed by the Lord.
  • 1798 - The Lutherans buy the István Mártsik’s house next to their church, on the site of the current Primary School „Várkerti”, for HUF 500 for school purposes, which consisted of a room and a kitchen, which the congregation expanded in 1799 with a school room.

 

19th century

  • 1803–1817 - The Lutheran orphanage is built.
  • May 1, 1805 - 1807 - The foundation stone of the Lutheran church tower is laid. The tin-covered tower will be built in two years. In 1806, Ferenc Tomkaházy and his wife, Erzsébet Patonay, and János Kozma from Leveldi donated a bell.
  • August 16, 1806 - The cross is placed on the tower of the Lutheran church.
  • 1807 - The tomb of Barbara Zichy is completed.
  • June 21, 1807 - The old Lutheran schoolhouse, which was the site of the later bakery, is sold by the congregation, instead the house east of the Mártsik House is bought for school purposes.
  • Before June 25, 1809 - After the battle of Győr, a squadron of Napoleon's French army marched to Palota and Fehérvár.
  • End of October 1809 - After the Peace of Schönbrunn, the Zala cavalry regiment of the Andrássy Brigade (Major General János Andrássy; Palota) is stationed in Palota
  • 1810 - Poor house is built in Palota.
  • 1815 – An English traveller Richard Bright sees a gallows on a small hill next to the castle (Zichys had a pallos right!), hears chains of prisoners ringing in the "castle moat", and sees peasants drunk on the violin of three gypsies at a house dancing ragingly.
  • 1818 - The school is built in the valley of Inota (where the house No. 154 is located in 1933).
  • October 12–13, 1818 - Arriving from Bakonykúti, geologist François Sulpice Beudant walks to Palota, lodges here and then continues his journey to Veszprém.
  • November 28, 1822 - The Reformed Diocesan Assembly condemns the fact that, unlike before, landlord Miklós Zichy adorns the fruit of the land of pastors and teachers in Inota.
  • November 18, 1823 - The diocesan assembly finds that the previous year's Inotai tossing took place because the Inota Reformed preacher failed to apply for its release.
  • 1826 - The Israelite population of Várpalota decides to build a synagogue.
  • 1826 - The young Count Miklós Zichy exchanges a better, larger and more hay-producing meadow instead of the pastoral and teacher's meadow cut in two during the excavation of the Sárrét canal.
  • 1827 - Eight Inota craftsman in the list of taxpayers: János Sass blacksmith, György Vasinka trimmer, János Vesztróczy furrier, János Pesser clapman, Mátyás Mohl, Mihály Mayer and János Gál millers.
  • 1828 - The number of families is 927, the number of houses is 722, that of craftsmen are 277, that of merchants are 33, and that of lordship employees are 51. There is also a bookbinder Pál Nagy.
  • August 5, 1831 - The first diseases of the cholera epidemic in Palota- at the same time in Veszprém county - occur.
  • August 10, 1831 - The first victims of the cholera in epidemic die in Palota.
  • October 11, 1831 - The cholera epidemic ends at the Palace.
  • 1834 - Construction of the synagogue begins.
  • 1835 - The Roman cath. storied school on “Csapó” (Clapman”) street (later Kossuth street) is built.
  • 1836 - Population 6431, the highest in the history of the old Palota.
  • 1837 - The sanctuary of the church in Inota collapses.
  • 1838 - According to the census, the village of Inota has a population of 817.
  • September 11, 1840 - The completed Classicist-style synagogue is inaugurated. The inaugural speech was given by Rabbi Schwab Löw of Buda, attended by the Counts of Zichy and also the Christian citizens of the town.
  • 1844 - The church in Inota is renovated with the help of masons Dániel Vida and Mátyás Alhand.
  • February 17, 1844 - Maria Theresa Zichy (Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeö) marries János Waldstein-Wartenberg, thus coming into contact Waldstein with Palota.
  • 1846 - Lutherans build their storied school building on the site of the former Mártsik House.
  • 1848 – Palota’s population: 5839 people.
  • March 22, 1848 - Silent protest march on the streets of Palota in response to the events in Pest.
  • End of March 1848 - The population - based on the “misunderstood principle of equality”, despite his contract with the lord - continues to measure wine, against which Count Miklós Zichy protests several times and calls for strong action by the county committee. (The inherited treaty dated October 1, 1746 only allowed the population to measure wine for half a year, from St. Michael, September 29, to Candlemas, February 2.)
  • May 7, 1848 –In Palota about 400 men solemnly swears an oath to the constitution and the king. During the ceremony, Rosos István gives a speech to the first alispan, the Vörösmarty’s Szózat and other “other national songs” is performed, followed by an overnight feast.
  • May 23, 1848 - A huge celebration of joy is held in Palota to the delight of the national transformation with speeches and cannon fodder.
  • June 1848 - The national guardians of the village of Inota form a squadron together with the gullies, and after the election of their officers, the Reformed pastor of Inota asks László Szőgyény-Marich Sr. to take over the captaincy. He accepts this, and then they all take the oath of office. The wife of Szőgyény-Marich will present the century with a flag made by herself in the framework of a solemn consecration of the flag, during which the parish priest of Csór blesses the symbol accompanied by a speech.
  • June 2, 1848 – The census about the home guards according to the XXII. tc. finishes in the county, during which the organizational development also comes to pass. Of the 66 county captaincies, 4-4 is established in Veszprém and Pápa, 3 in Palota, 2-2 in Szentgál and Devecser.
  • July 21, 1848 - Károly Csirke, a district administrator from Veszprém, records the gold and silver jewelery and other valuable objects used by the women of the palace to join the national fundraiser, which has been going on since May 1848 to create independent Hungarian finance and warfare.
  • August 5, 1848 - Béla Zichy dies at Rábahídvég, who volunteered for the National Guard at Palota.
  • August 25, 1848 - In Öskü people make a vow to district administrator István Cseresnyés to submit the tithe within two days and to complete the day-rate by the end of the year. József Vaczula, the inciting 66-year-old cottar from Öskü, is captured and extradited to the criminal court. (In August, in several localities of the Palota’s estate, /Öskü, Vilonya, Királyszentistván/, the robot and tithe prescribed in their contract were refused, so there was need the intervention.)
  • September 5, 1848 - The government commissioner of Fejér County, Lajos Salamon Sr., appointed László Szőgyény-Marich Sr. as captain of the National Guard to Fehérvár, and gave him several instructions for keeping the national guards of Csór and Inota ready. (Since the attack of Jellasics is already becoming a serious threat by this time, the government is appointing government commissioners to all counties where the viceroy is likely to cross.)
  • September 12, 1848 - László Szőgyény-Marich Sr. resides with Miklós Zichy in Várpalota. Here, Archduke Antal István Szapáry's "national guard's servant" is also present, who "hatched bitterly against Jellasich and declared his adherence to the Hungarian cause."
  • September 15, 1848 - The county committee promulgates the decree of Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány dated September 13, calling for a mass popular uprising.
  • September 16, 1848 - The county commission makes it the duty of the high sheriffs to practice individuals suitable for popular uprisings in a mixed state with the national guards in each locality. The entire insurgent army is placed under the disciplinary rules of the patrol battalions.
  • September 17, 1848 - On the news of the approaching enemy, the Veszprém County Committee mobilizes the National Guard and begins to organize the line of defense from Bakony to Lake Balaton.
  • On the same day, the 250 glaze wheat in the military food warehouse in Székesfehérvár is transported to the mills in Inota, Moha, Keresztes and Csór due to the rapid advance of Jellasics.
  • September 21, 1848 - Detrich Zsigmond district administrator of Fejér County announces the popular uprising in Sárpentele, Szentmihály, Kiskeszi, Sárladány, Inota, Csór, Iszkaszentgyörgy and Moha. He calls the men to seize the scythe, the spear, the blacksmiths to straighten the scythes, the foremen to call the people to arms to protect the village.
  • September 24, 1848 – The VII soldier’s battalion stays in Palota for night, the next day continues its way to the camp in Székesfehérvár.
  • September 26, 1848 - The people of Öskü, who refused to pay the censorship to the Palota’s estate, were forced to fulfill their obligations by the 15 haiduks in the county.
  • September 28, 1848 - Ferenc Vigyázó, the commander of the Zala National Guards, and the volunteers of the Tapolca district of Zala County march through the Palace to the area of ​​Sárkeresztes, Pátka and Nadap.
  • September 29, 1848 - the battle of Pákozd ends with the retreat of both warring parties, sixty-two of the Croatian soldiers who strayed into the territory of Veszprém county are captured by the national guards of Várpalota. The town is flooded with refugees from Székesfehérvár and, as the report ofdistrict administrator Károly Csirke shows, these days the population of the town is "in a great commotion and turmoil - and most of them want to opposenot only but going before also enemies ..."
  • On the same day, the county committee decides to set up sub-committees in Pápa, Palota and the Mezőföld, whose task is to secure the county's borders against enemy intrusions by cooperating with Fejér county through expedient mobilization of the national guard.
  • October 3, 1848 - Roth's invasion of Káloz sets in motion the administration of Fejér County and Székesfehérvár, and announces the popular uprising through the delegates of sub-perfect Zlinszky - Government Commissioner for the Uprising of Lajos Salamon doesn’t arrive back to Fehérvár. On the news of this, Detrich Zsigmond Detrich district administrator of Fejér County appealed to the residents of the surrounding areas for the volunteers to march to Fehérvár, and the district administrator came to Palota in person to contact the market town and the high sheriff of the Veszprém district to coordinate the guerrilla actions.
  • October 4, 1848 - The news of the previous day arrived in Veszprém, according to which the Croatian garrison left behind to receive Roth was disarmed in Fehérvár. As a result, as well as at Detrich's action and at the notice of Hadhalmy, the mayor ofFehérvár, the national guardians and insurgents of the Veszprém district gather at Palota. The 350 people of the Szentgál National Guard are assigned to Veszprém, and then - uniting the national guard of Veszprém, Szentgál, Márkó and Bándi - the whole team is commanded to strengthen the protection of Palota.
  • October 23, 1848 - 1250 prisoners of war take a Croatian national guard - a "plebs in sheepskin" - to Veszprém, who are then transferred to Palota.
  • October 27, 1848 - Another 130 Croatian prisoners of war arrived in Veszprém, who are also directed to Palota.
  • November 10, 1848 - The government commissioner of Fejér county, Lajos Salamon, proclaims the proclamation of Lajos Kossuth, and at the same time appoints the captain of each national guard as the military commander of the popular uprising in the village. Thus, László Szőgyény-Marich Sr. will officially become the military commander of the villages of Csór and Inota.
  • December 29, 1848 - The Szekulits Brigade, the reserve of the Perczel Corps, is stationed in Palota market town. After learning about the loss of the battle of Mór Perczel, they retreat in the direction of Lepsény, Sárosd, Perkáta and Dunapentele. Then Veszprém county falls into enemy hands without a fight.
  • January 9, 1849 - General Windischgratz appointed Ferenc Fiáth, the aulic, as head of the county administration subordinate to the army command.
  • January 27, 1849 - The prefecture of Palota expresses its obligatory homage to Emperor Franz Joseph and King of Hungary.
  • February 4, 1849 - District administrator Károly Csirke compiles a total of 31 company wine surveyors at Palota.
  • February 5, 1849 - Unauthorized wine tasting is banned in Palota..
  • February 10, 1849 - Beaten in handcuffs, accompanied by about twenty imperial cavalry on two chariots, the five furrier and clapman of Palota who had previously worked for the Hungarian army and went to Debrecen to the Hungarian government for their pay were taken to Veszprém.
  • February 11, 1849 - Baron Escherich, a military commander in Veszprém, instructs Fiáth to investigate the activities of individuals who cooperate with the Kossuths and distribute proclamations and newspapers at Palota, despite Windischgratz's decree.
  • February 15, 1849 - Following the report submitted by István Rosos, Antal Brugovics and József Rajnik are handed over to the military command for "heavy punishment".
  • February 20, 1849 - Rosos orders the magistrates of Palota as a result of the 25th arrest of Palota’s bootmakers carrying the boots.
  • February 25, 1849 – District administrator Károly Csirke reports to the county deputy that the Palota’s bootmakers’ guild also made footwear for the revolutionary army. Mihály Posch, György Márcsik, Jr. Pál Bistricsány transported him to Debrecen, who were escorted to the county prison after their return to Palota - by order of the imperial-royal commissioner Ferenc Fiáth. Rajnik and Brugovics punishes by military command, and indirect culprits (seven in total) releases in mid-March.
  • End of March 1849 - Colonel Trattner orders another investigation after he learns that a decree has been promulgated at Palota that Hungarian banknotes must be accepted by everyone under heavy punishment, and that "the insurgents were delivered army-cloth.
  • April 24, 1849 - Palota is also affected by imperial armies retreating en masse due to the spring campaign.
  • April 25, 1849 - The first Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány, and Count István Károlyi and Count László Zselénszky were transported through Palota together with several captured Hungarians to the prison in Laibach (now Ljubljana). The night of April 25 is spent in the Zichy Castle in Palota.
  • April 26, 1849 - Ferenc Fiáth and his entourage leave the county in a hurry: he escapes to Sopron via Pápa. Instead, the re-established Veszprém County Standing Committee will take over the management of the county.
  • May 1849 - The Szemere government is formed. After the recovery of public order the recruitment of newcomers starts again in the county which ends in a month with a nice result, thanks to the Hungarian military successes.
  • May 3, 1849 - The inhabitants of Palota's market town occupy the private estate of Count István Zichy, and the order can only be restored by ordering the army.
  • June 30, 1849 - July 1, 1849 - The Kmety Division is stationed in Palota market town.
  • July 18, 1849 - Count István Zichy complains that his personal appeal is ignored by his people of Öskü.
  • July 23-26, 1849 - The people of Öskü refuse to pay the census due to the Palota’s estate - for the lands of the manor.
  • July 27, 1849 - A report written by János Fromm, the administrator of the palace estate, states that the inhabitants of Öskü brought the harvested grain home in secret so that the people of the estate could not collect the tithe.
  • August 7, 1849 - Count István Zichy complains before the Standing Committee about the occupation of his Palota's private estates. The Standing Committee orders an army to the detriment of Palota’s estate against the inhabitants of Királyszentistván and Vilonya who refused to censor.
  • August 8, 1849 - Count István Zichy reports the grazing of the people of Csernye belonging to the Palota’s estate.
  • August 19, 1849 - The county committee holds its last meeting without any substantive decisions.
  • On the morning of August 25, 1849, at 11 o'clock - the army of Lieutenant General Baron János Burits arrives in Veszprém, where he finds his county hall empty.
  • September 1849 - In order to resolve the tensions between the inhabitants of Inota and the Zichys over grazing, Royal Commissioner Ignác Héringh reinstates the agreement reached on 19 December 1829. According to this, Count Miklós Zichy designates the Pokróc Valley and the Sand Purchase Pasture as pastures for the cattle of the village. Manor sheep are banned from these places. The other pastures are grazed by lambs, cattle and horses, but also by the same cattle of the village keepers.
  • 1857 - First report on Palota in the Sunday Newspaper
  • 1857 - In the courtyard of János Szily, bitter water is found during excavation, which they try to sell commercially for a year or two.
  • March 10, 1858 – Palota rises to urban class as Várpalota by decision of an imperial and royal authority. Mayor: Ferenc Stasszik.
  • Autumn 1858 - The Zichys transport their archives preserved in their Várpalota’s castle to the family's castle in Zsély.
  • 1858 - Mór Jókai writes about Pusztapalota in the Sunday Newspaper.
  • 1860 - A fire destroys the Catholic church and Zichy Castle, respectively. it also causes great damage to the homes of the population. Flóris Rómer also deals with Palota in his work titled Bakony.
  • 1861 - Cholera epidemic destroys in Palota (also). According to the weekly newspaper called “Veszprém”, 139 became ill, 90 of whom recovered and 49 died.
  • 1861 - the school in Inota moves from the valley to 11 Templom Street.
  • 1861–1870 - Palota district seat. A hospital is being built in Árpád (then: Hospital) street. The population is 5336 and the number of dwellings is 831.
  • 1863 - Zichy Castle is rebuilt according to the plans of Miklós Ybl.
  • September 6, 1864 - Baroness Mária Kray (1800-1864), the wife of Count (II) Miklós Zichy, dies and leaves 200 Austrian forints to the Reformed community in Várpalota.
  • 1866 - As the city is unable to pay the tax, the finance department wants to deploy a military to recover it.
  • 1866 - The Vienna City Council does not allow the city to hold its fourth annual fair. The Palota Town City Committee appeals, but this is also rejected.
  • June 1, 1867 - The mayor is commissioned by the town committee to send a delegation to Ignác Békeffy, a district administrator. His goal is for him or his office to move to Palota.
  • 1867 - The city committee discusses the embezzlement of Mayor Ferenc Stasszik.
  • January 24, 1868 - Peter Singer gives a sermon on the occasion of the Equalization Ceremony at Palota entitled The Golden Apple.
  • October 8, 1868 - The first wife of János Waldstein-Wartenberg, Maria Theresa Zichy, dies.
  • 1869 - Inota has a population of 1,023.
  • November 3, 1871 – Aladár Bánwárth is born in Palota.
  • November 18, 1871 - Waldstein remarries. He marries 28-year-old Adélheid Kálnoky von Köröspatak, who, like her husband, also does a lot for the development of Várpalota (also).
  • 1872 - The Csór-Inota Mutual Relief Society is founded.
  • October 1, 1872 - The hospital begins operations.
  • August 9, 1872 - Traffic begins on the Székesfehérvár-Várpalota-Veszprém railway line.
  • March 22, 1874 - The guilds of "Németvarga, Tímár and Szabó" form an industrial company.
  • 1875 - Miklós Zichy (III.) Dies. The inferior estate is inherited by his sister, Paulina Zichy.
  • February 13, 1876 - Abraham Singer gives a mourning speech in memory of Ferenc Deák in the Israelite church.
  • June 3, 1876 - Count John Waldstein-Wartenberg dies. His nephew, Count Antal Sztáray, inherits the estate of the nobility, on the condition that if he also dies without an heir, it will return to the Zichy family.
  • 1876 ​​- Count Antal Sztáray discovers coal during excavation.
  • October 15, 1876 - The wife of János Waldstein, Count Adél Kálnoky, founded a school called St. Vincent Paulai Convent School.
  • December 11, 1878 - the Royal Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade approves the statutes of the "Hungarian and German tailors' mixed industrial association"
  • 1879 - Voluntary fire brigade is formed (founded by Vladimir Zichy).
  • 1880 - The number of Lutherans in Várpalota: 1250. (Nearly a quarter of the total population!)
  • 1880 - Inota has a population of 985.
  • October 27, 1880 - The Great Feast of Palota’s Jewry. Rabbi Abraham Singer donates a very valuable and ornate torah scroll to the faith community. The surrender will take place at 5 p.m., with a solemn ceremony, and then the Torah will be placed in the locker room. Abraham Singer gives a speech. In the evening, the Jewish youth marched in front of the President of the Community with a torchlight procession, then led by Adolf Kohn, led by Mór Goldschmidt. A group of 6-700 people went to the house of Abraham Singer, where Samuel Bernstein would thank the gift on behalf of the Jews. In his response, the rabbi speaks of peace, of reconciliation.
  • November 1, 1880 - Lutherans, led by Pastor Mihály Farkas, celebrate the 100th anniversary of their church.
  • 1881 - Mihály Farkas Lutheran pastor establishes a congregational savings granary.
  • 1881 - A huge windstorm rises, taking the cross off the Lutheran church tower.
  • January 29, 1882 - The Lutheran Women's Association is formed under the chairmanship of Pastor Mihály Farkas.
  • 1883 - Adolf Kohn, president of the Jewish community in Palota, recommends the use of the Hungarian language in the protocol of the community and in their correspondence, which is accepted by the Presidium, so the use of the German language ceases.
  • 1885 - Count Adél Kálnoky establishes a kindergarten in the building of the Conservatory in memory of his little son, Henri de Sabran-Pontevès, who died at the age of two.
  • February 10, 1885 - A delegation goes to Justice Minister Pauler Tivadar. The members of the delegation were the following: under the leadership of Abbot-canons and MPs József Kisovics, parish priest Ádám Steiner, Gyula Krosecz, Lajos Dukovich, Sándor Becske and Antal Magyary. The purpose of the mission is for the Minister of Justice to set up a new district court and be based in Várpalota. (The Minister of Justice gave the delegation a reassuring answer.)
  • December 25, 1885 - The Papal Newspaper of Pápa announce that a post-savings bank with a state guarantee will be established in Várpalota.
  • 1886 - The National Mining Authority permits coal mining in Várpalota.
  • 1886 - Dr. Pál Rutsek is admitted to Palota as a doctor.
  • May 1, 1886 - The post office savings bank opens in Várpalota.
  • December 12, 1886 - The Craftsmen's Reading Circle is formed with 68 members. (Rókus Petkó, Márton Winkler, János Országh, András Tímár and Ferenc Tömör had the greatest merits in its formation.)
  • January 23, 1886 - Dr. József Patay, doctor of Várpalota, dies at the age of 77.
  • October 10, 1888 - The love tragedy of the 25-year-old Shepherd József Gansperger and the 22-year-old Zsófi Hammer in Inota. The newspaper called Papers of Pápa reports on it.
  • August 6, 1889 - The national animal fair planned to be held in the town was banned by the county's deputy due to the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.
  • Before October 20, 1889 - The town paid tribute to the Minister of Justice Dezső Szilágyi with a delegation for joining the land register. apply to the district court for the town and its countryside. The delegation was led by Representative Imre Szabó; its members were: Imre Herczeg, city judge, Sándor Böcskey, the town's chief notary, Dr. Hercz Adolf, doctor, Gyula Krosetz and Ágoston Heidinger.
  • 1890 - The population of Várpalota is 5161, the village of Inota is 967.
  • 1890 - Paulina Zichy (sister of Béla Zichy, who died as a national guard) dies of cancer, and the Zichy branch of the Lower Lords dies out. The estate was sold by Paulina's ex-husband, Oldershausen Werner, to the former tenants of the estate, the three Wolf brothers, after the removal of the adopted and inherited Júlia Ihász: József Wolf, Pál Wolf, and Sándor Wolf. As they agree to pay a fixed amount per year until the death of the Baron, but Oldershausen dies after three months, so the Lower Manor estate in fact came to the Wolf brothers for free.
  • May 7, 1891 - The committee board of the Transdanubian Public Cultural Association (DKE) holds its meeting, where Gusztáv Haidinger from Várpalota also participates as a member.
  • 1893 - The Industrial Apprenticeship School is established with 98 students in the rom.kath boys school building. First director: Márton Winkler.
  • August 29, 1893 - Count Antal Sztáray dies. The estate and mine belong to the tributary Zichy family, Gábor Zichy.
  • August 5, 1895 - At the extraordinary general meeting of the Veszprém County Legislature, at the request of Ferenc Fenyvessy, Gyula Wlassics decides to hand over a document thanking the Minister of Public Education on the occasion of the Minister's decision ofgreat cultural institutes in several towns of the county (Veszprém, Várpalota, Pápa).
  • May 10, 1896 - Zoltán Dömény, a Reformed pastor, holds a millennium service, planting a millennium memorial tree in the courtyard of the church.
  • August 29, 1897 - The Palota’s Craftsmen's Reading Circle makes a decision on financial support for the erection of the Kossuth statue.
  • August 29, 1899 - Gábor Zichy dies, so his new heirs are the sons of Vladimir and Miklós.
  • 1900 - The population of Várpalota is 5344. The number of dwelling houses is 872, the number of industrial occupations is 1440, of which 54 are miners. The number of peasants is 2000. The population of Inota is 1088 people.
  • 1900 - The Jewish bathhouse is converted into a municipal bath.

20th centuary

  • 1901 - The number of craftsmen in Várpalota is 251.
  • Summer 1903 - Vladimir Zichy of the Upper Kingdom sells the estate to Prussian Count Henrik Altdöbern-Witzleben. Witzleben undertakes to "Establish large industrial companies in Várpalota next time, and supply the city with plumbing and lightning."
  • 1903 - Witzleben develops mining. A lime kiln, power plant, briquette factory and coal classifier is established
  • September 1903 - Gábor Antal Transdanubian Ev. ref. Bishop's reception in Várpalota with the participation of clerk József Berky, judge Gábor Magyary, the representative body, representatives of the churches and the local intelligentsia.
  • 1904 - A brick factory is built.
  • May 1, 1904 - The Várpalota (Small) power plant is completed, which first supplies the coal mine plants and then the settlement.
  • November 26, 1905 - Ferenc Szalay, Lutheran pastor and president and director of the Várpalota Savings Bank, dies at the age of 45. He is buried in the Lutheran tomb in Várpalota.
  • May 15, 1906 - The first workers' assembly in Rejcsur. The authority bans it that day. Workers from both the castle palace and the surrounding area gather together. Shoemaker István Borzas is one of the organizers. Christian socialist miners, led by the Roman Catholic chaplain Lajos Antal, also take part. The chief constable dissolves the assembly.
  • 1906–1907 - Daily coal production 20-25 wagons.
  • February 24, 1906 - The reading circle named “Good Luck” helds its inaugural session with 63 participants.
  • August 15, 1906 - A festive feast was organized in Balatonalmádi to honor the election of Dr. Ferenc Óvári as a representative of the Veszprém district.
  • March 16, 1907 - The Ministry of the Interior issued on the no.19442-907-V approves "Good Luck!" (Jó Szerencsét!”) Reading circle.
  • 1907 - Witzleben establishes Várpalota Industrial complexes.
  • 1908 - A new brick factory is built.
  • 1908 - Witzleben buys the lower manor estate from the Wolf brothers.
  • 1910 - The population of Várpalota is 5440, the population of Inota is 1141.
  • 1911 - The Construction Readers' Circle is formed.
  • September 19, 1911 - Catholic teacher Márton Winkler dies at Várpalota.
  • October 1911 – The Romanian Beligradianu brothers J. Moscu and Samuel of Jewish descent purchase the former higher nobility estate from Witzleben Altöbern owner.
  • 1913 - Zichy Castle and the nobility estate become treasury property five times that of price offered by Vladimir Zichy in 1900. The seller is the Beligradianu brothers. It is a parliamentary matter, a national scandal ensues.
  • October 1, 1913 - The Training Ground Command of the Royal Hungarian Defense Forces is established. It developes its headquarters in the Zichy Castle purchased by the Honvéd Treasury.
  • October 23, 1913 - The decisions of the Veszprém County Legislative Committee will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting in the case of the purchase of 50 acre grazing land and its transfer to the Hungarian Royal Treasury as a camp site, as well as in the matter of the sale of the “old Cseri” municipal grazing land – from count Henrik Witzleben-Altdöbern .
  • 1914 - A new briquette factory is established (Witzleben).
  • September 10, 1914 - The representative body of the large village of Várpalota elects Sándor Koller, a court councilor and deputy governor of Veszprém county, as an honorary citizen. The following are mentioned as justifications: the large village owes its merits to the water supply, the arrangement of the roads, the placement of the army camp, and the merits in the matter of “lightning lighting”.
  • October 1914 - Subscribers of Veszprém, Pápa, Siófok, Szentgál and Várpalota are allowed to have an intercity private conversation about the Kaposvár subscriber station.
  • 1915–1919 - Electricity is introduced in residential buildings.
  • 1916 - Construction of the barracks of the Inota military regiment begins with the involvement of Russian and Serbian prisoners of war.
  • July 28, 1916 - A Serb prisoner of war who escaped from Inota starts shooting near the Nádasdladány railway station and then commits suicide.
  • October 15-17, 1916 - During the pastoral consecration following the general assembly of the Transdanubian Reformed Church District held in Pápa, Endre Hölgye is ordained a pastor in Várpalota.
  • End of 1917 - Miners' union is formed.
  • June 2, 1918 - A Lutheran girl's association is formed.
  • November 1918 - A Civil Guard is formed, with 3 officers and 30 crew members according to the decree of the commander of the Szombathely National Guard District. Its leader is Tamás Goldschmidt.
  • 1919 - Witzleben sells the majority of the shares of“Várpalotai Ipartelepek” (Industrial Establishment) Rt. (corporation), which is bought by three banks: the Depositen Bank, the “Város- és Községfejlesztési” ( Urban and Country Devcelopment) Bank and the” Magyar-Olasz” (Hungarian-Italian) Bank.
  • 1919 - The system of the Soviet Republic in Várpalota. The first measures of the workers' council and the directorate include the nationalization of the coal mine, the establishment of two exchange shops to provide food for the population, and the nationalization of the library of the Industry Association. The parish priest Dr. István Fatér has been repeatedly threatened with abduction and even execution by the leaders of the communist order. The same want to remove the nuns from school education of Várpalota. However, despite the machine guns set up as a deterrent in the square in front of the church, the inhabitants of the settlement bravely stand by the parish priest who cares for their spiritual care and the nuns who teach their children. The directorate of Várprota is asking Veszprém for help in curbing the population, by which the deputy head of county affairs, Gáspár Szabó, arrives at Palota, whose measures restore the "order".
  • On the afternoon of March 21, 1919 - Viktor Winkler and István Borzas were informed of the proclamation of the Soviet Republic. At that time, together with Dr. Sándor Nemes, they prevent the Civil Guard from arming itself with the weapons stored so far. The order is maintained by the gendarmerie. The Winkler, Nemes, Borzas troika prepares and organizes the council election in the spirit of Decree No. XXVI.
  • April 7, 1919 - A council election is held, resulting in a 40-member Workers' Council. At its first meeting, a 5-member directorate will be elected. Officials were: the chairman of the Workers' Council - Mór Takács, the chairman of the Directorate - Viktor Winkler, the members of the Directorate - István Borzas (shoemaker), Kálmán Törzs (pharmacist), Dr. Sándor Nemes, (doctor) János Gárdonyi (barber). A Revolutionary Tribunal will be formed as a judicial body, chaired by Ádám Pót, composed of István Borzas and Viktor Winkler, and by Kálmán Törzs.
  • March 28, 1919 - The Red Guard is established, led by the Commander of the Civil Guard: Tamás Goldschmidt. The gendarmerie is merged into the Red Guard.
  • End of March - beginning of April 1919 - The recruitment of members of the Red Army begins, as a result of which about 40 people, led by László Bölcs, march into Hajmáskér.
  • Around Easter 1919 - The iron and metal industry union, led by István Szabó, seceded from the Miners' Trade Union.
  • May 1, 1919 - The celebration of work begins with a procession from the railway station through Kossuth Street to Rejcsur (György Thury Square), where the choral society created for this occasion sings movement songs, and then a public assembly is held in Thury Square, where Mór Takács gives a solemn speech. In the afternoon, a folk festival is held under the train station in the direction of Inota, on the side facing Ősi, with horse riding and other games. The organization of the celebration was the task of teacher István Gyurkovits.
  • Early August 1919 - Under unclear circumstances, the Communists shot dead two innocent women on the streets: the widow with many children Istvánné Horváth (Mrs. Horváth) (born Mária Németh) and widow. Jánosné Stámusz (Mrs. Stámusz) (born Erzsébet Csősz).
  • 1919 - Dr. Paul Rutsek dies. Zoltán Makkay, a Reformed director-teacher, director of the Várpalota and Surrounding Savings Bank, a founding member and managing director of the Ant (“Hangya”) Cooperative, will continue his teaching work in Veszprém.
  • 1920 - The Union Mining and Industrial Co. is established.
  • 1920 - The population of Várpalota is 4964. The population of Inota is 1190 people.
  • March-November 1920 – Prisoner of war camp in Inota, which dealt with the disarmament of prisoners of war returned from Western states.
  • First half of 1920 - The first football association is formed under the name of Várpalota Tournament Association (VTE)
  • 1920 - The Choral Society of the Craftsmen's Reading Circle is formed under the leadership of conductor Gyula Vass.
  • October 1920 - Two-week mining strike with no results. The leaders of the strike are beaten in the castle.
  • 1920 - The Merchants' Association is formed.
  • 1921 - A new lime kiln is established.
  • 1923 - Union Mining and Industrial Co.
  • 1923 - The 295. Mátyás Hollós Scout Team is formed through the organization of teacher Jenő Suha.
  • 1923 - Lutheran youth choir is organized.
  • 1923 - Gyula Vass cantor teacher, singing teacher headed the Várpalota Municipal Industrial Apprenticeship School.
  • January-February 1923 - The miners' wage demand movement achieves results: underground labor wages increase by 40% and surface labor wages by 30%.
  • 1923–1939 - Mining director Lajos Korompay modernizes the mining.
  • May 1, 1924 - Joining the national strike, the miners go on a 6-7 day strike.
  • 1925 – The Circle of Smallholders begins its regular operation.
  • 1926 - The civic school begins to operate in the County Hall building. Director: Dr. Géza Vanek.
  • 1926 - Annual coal production is 5,500 tons
  • 1926–1927 - The brick factory is closed
  • 1927 – “Nitrochemistry” is an important carbon buyer.
  • 1927 - István Polonyi innholder places the bell of the St. Donat's Chapel in Loncsos at his own expense.
  • February 26, 1927 - Dr. Imre Dréhr, a candidate of the United Party, is elected Member of Parliament for the Veszprém constituency (including Várpalota).
  • End of February 1927 - In the case of the planned large electricity center in connection with the electrification plan of the railways and a part of them, the delegation of Várpalota Led by Archbishop Dr. Lajos Körmendy-Ékes, visited Minister of Commerce Hermann Miksa, asking that his headquarters be built in Várpalota using the lignite mine there. The Minister states that if the plan is implemented, he will consider the request of Várpalota.
  • March 4, 1927 - Earthquake at Várpalota. (Grade 7 on the Mercalli scale.)
  • Mid-March 1927 - The legal predecessor of the Várpalota Mining Sports Circle, the Várpalota Union Tournament Association (UTE), is formed.
  • June 12, 1927 - The consecration of the flag of the Várpalota Craftsman's Choral Society. The flag mother is Dr. Dréhr Imréné, (Mrs. Dér) the keynote speaker is Dr. Péter Sándor, clerk, the honorary president of the choral society.
  • July 1927 - Earthquake at Várpalota. (Grade 7 on the Mercalli scale.)
  • 1928 - A new Roman Catholic school is built on Kossuth Street.
  • 1928 - Géza Benkő evangelic principal-teacher headed the Várpalota Municipal Industrial Apprenticeship.
  • July 12, 1928 - General Károly Csörgey dies with several comrades while testing a secretly developed anti-aircraft gun at the Várpalota shooting range.
  • December 1, 1928 - The Várpalota’s Union Choral society is formed under the leadership of the Roman Catholic chaplain Béla Varga (later the leader of smallholders).
  • 1929 - The Mining Wind Orchestra is formed with sixteen members.
  • 1930 - The castle (military) treasury owned. The population of Várpalota is 5444 people, the number of residential houses is 871. 1000 people are engaged in industrial work. The population of Inota is 1252 people, according to religion: 601 r. cath. 600 ev. ref., 47 Augustinus-regular ev., 1 Greek Oriental, 3 Isr. Inota house number has a total of 197.
  • 1930 - The Carters’ Circle is formed from the lime burners of Palota.
  • 1931 - The Good Luck Home is built partly with the financial contribution of the miners.
  • 1931 - Péti Nitrogénművek appears as a carbon consumer. The annual output is 160,000 tons
  • 1931 - Works by Jenő Faller
  • 1931 - The chapel on the ground floor of Zichy Castle, consecrated in 1727, is abolished by the Army and used as a garage.
  • April 22, 1931 - The newspaper Esztergom writes that in Inota was an earthquake.
  • August 20, 1931 - A letter from a reader titled “Hell in Pét” about the conditions of the constructions in Pétfürdő appears in Népszava.
  • November 23, 1931 - Hungarian Telegraph Office (MTI) reports that the governor donated the 5th class Hungarian Cross of Merit to the inhabitant of Inotai, István Lóránt, for his zealous work in the field of public life, on the proposal of the Prime Minister.
  • 1932 - The Péti Workers' Choir is formed.
  • July 17, 1932 - The parish of Inota celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the work of teacher Jenő Pécsy in Inota. The army of the current and former disciples resp. the leadership of the village organized the ceremony. The solemn speech gives by Ödön Muszel, President of the Roman Catholic Parish.
  • July 17, 1932 - 50th anniversary celebration of the Várpalota Evangelical Women's Association with the participation of the Miners' Mission Association, the Scout Team, the Várpalota Reformed Women's Association and the local military staff.
  • 1933 - Excavation of a longobard cemetery from the Migration period in the area of ​​“Homokbánya” (Borrowing pit), known in the international literature as "Várpalota culture".
  • September 1933 - Secret negotiations take place on the estate of Gömbös Castle in Várpalota with the participation of Vice-Chancellor Papen, the brother of Rüdiger Stahrenberg (leader of the Heimwehr), Prince Ferdinand and Mandl, the general manager of the Hirtenberg arms factory. Count István Bethlen also appeared at the event. According to the leaked news, it was agreed that the Hungarian army would be reorganized, with its headquarters will be in Várpalota and in Hajmáskér, respectively. the terms of the German-Austrian agreement were discussed.
  • July 23, 1935 - At the inauguration of the swimming pool built with the money of the miners in Várpalota, Oszkár Abay Nemes, Ödön Gróf, Ferenc Csik, Árpád Lengyel (floating) broke the record of Europe with a 4 × 200 m quick relay swimming. [4]
  • August 5 – August 10, 1935 - a council of ministers is chaired by the Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös on the treasury forest estate in Várpalota.
  • 1935 - For the first time in the country, groove training begins in Várpalota. The first furrow exam will be held on December 1st.Ferenc Albert chief counsellor of the mining company is the chairman of the examiners.
  • September 1936 - The local organization of the Hungarian National Socialist Party, led by Sándor Festetics, is formed. Leader: István Vörös merchant, other founding members: József Szurok, Károly Németh, Miklós Konta.
  • September 19, 1937 - The first warrior monument is erected in Várpalota - according to the news of MTI. Pál Zwickl, the chairman of the Várpalota Main Group of the National Front Fighter Association, gives the inaugural speech. The ceremony will also be attended by an officer delegation led by the valiant General Szentendrey, an officer delegation from the Hajmáskér shooting school, a valiant lieutenant general Nagyszombathy and General Folkusházy, as well as representatives of the town and the county.
  • November 20, 1937 - a Lutheran men's youth association is organized, the purpose of which is to learn singing, listen to biblical lectures, give amateur performances, and charitable goals. Alternatively, increase the parish library from subsidies.
  • March 19, 1938 - A large-scale meeting of Várpalota organization of the National Unity Party is held with the participation of Dr. Ágost Benárd Vitéz, former Minister and Member of Parliament of the Veszprém District. After the opening of local president János Farkas, accompanied by the great interest of his constituents, he describes the domestic foreign policy situation and reports on the government's social legislation. Afterwards, Lajos Korompay, mining councilor and NEP president of the constituency, presents the latest government decree on school education of diggers (miners), and then Béla Jakula, Veszprém county secretary of NEP gives a speech. Finally, the speeches were made by dr. The local executive secretary, Pál Zwikl, thanks him and the meeting ends with the cheer of Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi and the representatives of the district.
  • August 28, 1938 - A Class I league match between Pápa’s Perutz and the host Union drowns in scandal after a local fan rushes onto the field in the second half and insults the referee Storch. In the second half, he stopped the match at 2: 3 in the 32nd minute.
  • May 11, 1939 - Bálint Hóman, Minister of Religion and Public Education, arrives at Várpalota, where Lajos Korompay, Chief Mining Adviser, greets him among officials, miners and workers. Later, Bálint Hóman goes to the “Good Luck” (Jó Szerencsét) miner’s reading circle, where after Elemér Inántsy-Pap he explains the essence of Christian, national and racial policy.
  • 1940 - About 300 Polish soldiers are stationed in the castle and in barracks built for this purpose on Calvary Hill.
  • 1940 - The Industrial Apprenticeship School presents a flag to its sister institution in Târgu-Mureş (Kézdivásárhely) in honor of the return of Northern Transylvania.
  • May 1940 - Assault troops are formed at Várpalota against the fortification system of the Romanian defense system, the Carol line, built in Szilágyság.
  • June 25, 1940 - Royal Prince Joseph inaugurates the heroic monument and national flag of the village of Inota.participates in the ceremony. Retired General Gyula Falkay, Deputy Governor Andor Thaisz, Antal Czermann and Member of Parliament János Börcs participe in the ceremony. In the inaugural speech of Royal Prince Joseph, the former imperial and royal.69. he praises the heroism of Hindenburg footsoldiers and former 17th patriots. The inaugurated monument is handed over to the village by Antal Czermann, and finally his former soldiers march in front of Archduke Joseph.
  • 1941 - The mine becomes a military plant.
  • 1941 - Population, 8,807, number of peasant families 1,400.
  • October 4, 1941 - Dr. Gyula Czapik, Bishop of Veszprém County, suffered a car accident in the immediate vicinity of Várpalota when he left for Budapest for the Catholic General Assembly in his own car. The gendarmerie there provides first aid.
  • 1942 - The Várpalota Union Gymnastics Society, which in the meantime changed its name to the Várpalota Union Gymnastics Association, requests the use of the name Várpalota Mining (Bányász) Sports Circle.
  • 1942 - The building of the Officer's Casino (today: the Várpalota Local Guard Club) is completed according to the plans of András Fenzel in Art Nouveau style next to the Zichy Castle.
  • June 27, 1942 - Gyula Nagy Hungarian levente won the Florentine painting competition.
  • March 18, 1943 - The Red Cross organizes a home nursing course in Várpalota, in the final examination of which the widow of the deputy governor Knight István Horthy who died a heroic death, also appeared. It is received by Archbishop Ferenc Mesterházy and his wife.
  • June 26-27, 1943 - The School of Industrial Apprentices presents a flag to its sister institution in Târgu-Mureş (Kézdivásárhely) in honor of the return of Northern Transylvania.
  • 1944 - Coal production is 800,000 tons per year. The number of miners is 2,480, and the number of industrial workers, including Pétfürdő, is 6,500.
  • Early May 1944 - Dr. István Buda, the chief of Veszprém, orders the Jews of the county to wear the distinctive yellow star.
  • Summer 1944 - A sample of the high-secret “miracle weapon”, the jet launcher of the reactive two-barreled anti-tank (later referred to as the Szálasi flywheel), is presented at the shooting range of the Várpalota infantry training camp.
  • Early June 1944 - 260 Jewish residents of Várpalota and neighboring villages are gathered and locked in a synagogue designated as a ghetto.
  • June 14, 1944, 11 a.m. - First major American air strike (witnesses say 30 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers) primarily against the Péti Nitrogénművek. The loss of life is 40-42 people, of which 25-27 are Romanian laborers, who camp between the driveway no. 8 and the factory at this time.
  • July 14, 1944, 10 a.m. - Second major American air strike against the partially restored plants of the “Péti Nitrogénművek”, during which the Cat Hill (“Macskahegy”) Air Defense (an 80 mm Bofors air defense cannon battery) fired 1 Lockheed "lightning" escort fighter and 2 Liberator heavy bombers.
  • July 20, 1944 - The deportation of Jews from Veszprém County, including Várpalota, is completed.
  • August 2, 1944 - On the initiative of Antal Steixner, Pétfürdő became an independent parish. The significantly increased population of Péti justifies the establishment of an independent parish. József Mindszenty welcomes the plan and to send the parish chaplain Jenő Baán to Pétfürdő as the first local pastor to organize the parish.
  • October 22, 1944 - Fourteen "left-wing" people are interned from Várpalota.
  • November 12, 1944 - According to a weekly newspaper titled „Veszprémvármegye”, the gendarmerie handed over the miner's István Hajdú miner from Várpalota to the Royal Prosecutor's Office of Győr for spreading rumors.
  • December 20, 1944 - Soviet bombing of the street next to the Korona Hotel and the cinema building of Várpalota, where the adventures of Baron Münchausen to German soldiers the film is screened. 135 German soldiers die.
  • February 8, 1945 - Bishop Lajos Shvoy of Székesfehérvár is taken to Pétfürdő, where Captain László Botond introduces the charges.
  • February 14, 1945 - Lajos Shvoy is taken to Veszprém.
  • End of February 1945 - 118 Gypsies are executed in Várpalota, next to Lake Grábler, on charges of treason.
  • March 9, 1945 - Soviet airstrikes hit the city, killing 27 civilians and killing 148 wounded German soldiers during a bombing of the former Erzsébet Hotel and the cinema next door.
  • Night of March 14, 1945 - Another Soviet air strike with 80 civilian casualties.
  • March 15, 1945 - The Hungarian Nazis hold a large-scale celebratory commemoration in the main square of Castle Palace, attended by about 2-3,000 people. The solemn speech is given by the Catholic teacher Gyula Döbrentei, who was given a prison for six years after the war.
  • March 19, 1945 - The front reaches the area of ​​Várpalota. In preparation for the German-Hungarian defensive army's counterattack to restore the former Mór-Székesfehérvár front line, the 1st SS Armored Division of the 1st "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" (leader: Otto Kumm SS-Brigadeführer) is concentrating its forces in the Várpalota area. However, by the time the maneuver begins, the outposts of the 9th Guards Army and 6th Guards Tank Army (leader: colonel-general Andrej Grigorjevics Kravcsenko) of the 3rd Ukrainian Front’s (leader: Marshal Fyodor Tolbuhin) move int he designated area, so they must clean up their gathering bound.
  • Parts of the 1st SS Armored Grenade Regiment, with the support of the 1st SS Armored Air Defense Artillery Class, immediately transitioned from march to attack around Várpalota.
  • March 19, 1945 - The Germans recapture Inota from the Soviets. The fight, led by Josef 'Jupp' Diefenthal SS-Sturmbannführer, takes place from house to house and then fire-bays are set up east of the town.
  • Around 4:00 p.m. - Behind the safety line formed by the Rifle Battalion, the armored group of the division also gathers. In the evening - The Soviets launch a counterattack, but the forces of the 1st SS Armored Division of the 1st “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” launch eight of their tanks, stopping their attack.
  • March 20, 1945 - The battle groups of the 1st SS Armored Division of the 1st Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler launch an attack from the Inota-Bakonykúti line to Csór and the heights three kilometers northeast of Inota, with the support of still-capable tanks and hunting armor. After initial successes, the action gets stuck in the fire of the Soviets, and even the Soviets take the initiative. Attacking along the Székesfehérvár – Veszprém route, their tanks take back the battle group of the 1st SS Armored Grenade Regiment and the armored group of the division to Inota, and then embrace the forces of the division from the north and south.
  • Around 12.00 - The Soviets also invade Inota, making the situation of the Germans increasingly critical.
  • Against Soviet tanks moving west of Inota, SS-Brigadeführer Otto Kumm, division commander, sends a Tiger II heavy tank during the day, which also finds the Soviets and fires 15 of their armor. A suddenly regrouped battalion battle group of the 1st SS Armored Grenade Regiment combs through the wooded part of the Várpalota – Székesfehérvár route and destroys another 15 Soviet tanks.
  • At the same time, the division's hasty eastern front line is being attacked by Soviets with tanks, gunfire, and artillery. The jobs had to be taken back to the eastern edge of Várpalota until evening.
  • The commander of the 501st SS Heavy Armor Division, fighting in the 1st SS Armored Regiment, the SS-Obersturmbannführer of the 50th SS Armored Division, after being relieved of his post due to illness, shoots himself in the head that day. Successor to Heinz Kling SS-Sturmbannführer.
  • At dusk, due to Soviet shooting forces infiltrating the Inota, Werner Pötschke SS-Sturmbannführer decides to give up the village and then retreat in the direction of Várpalota. The Soviets occupy Inota.
  • Cut 1/7 due to retreat six Panzer IV tanks of the SS Armored Squadron and two subordinate Tiger II armored soldiers break through the Soviet-occupied Inota (!) to their own troops fighting at Várpalota at night, while the leading Tiger fires several T-34 tanks.
  • Early Dawn, March 21, 1945 - The Soviet 5th Guards Tank Corps begins the attack on Várpalota. Led by Major Malyukov's battalion commander, the Germans are expelled from the settlement.
  • 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. According to a report by the Germans, the armored division 1. „Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler SS was using a strong counterattack to oust the Soviets to a road-rail junction in the southern part of the town and to a line at a fork 1 km north of the town.
  • During these fighting, the Germans reported the shooting of 15 Soviet tanks. The Hansen Combat Group (pk. Max Hansen SS-Obersturmbannführer) with the remaining Panther tanks of the 1st SS Armored Regiment stops the attack of three tank-supported Soviet rifle divisions at Várpalota.
  • The forces of the 1st SS Armored Regiment destroy seven Soviet armored personnel in the southern part of Várpalota, with three tanks at their own loss.
  • Konrad Heubeck SS-Untersturmführer, who takes over 1/1 after Werner Wolff's injury. He controls the Pantherins of the SS armored squadron, and shoots 11 Soviet ISZ-2 heavy tanks at Várpalota. The town was attacked by the Soviets all day. They are reflected several times by parts of SS 1st, 3rd “Totenkopf” SS and 9th SS Armored Divisions.
  • Afternoon - The Soviets deploy new forces from the north, east, and southeast. In the fierce fighting, the Germans reported the shooting of a total of 45 Soviet tanks. Fierce street fighting takes place after the Soviet 98th Rifle Division from the northwest, the 20th and 22nd tank brigades from the northwest, the 21st tank brigade and the 6th Guards mechanized brigade from the north.
  • Around 19.00 – Várpalota in the narrow sense is occupied by Soviet troops. The Pétfürdő, which administratively belongs to Várpalota, only the next day.
  • March 23, 1945 - The invading Russians burn the registers of the Roman Catholic parish from 1712 and other documents related to its activities and duplicates of them in the lower corridor of the Convent
  • April 7, 1945 pm. 4 o'clock - The Várpalota’s organization of the Hungarian Communist Party with 37 members is formed in the Zwickl House. President: Imre Szabó, secretary: Ferenc Madlovics.
  • April 8, 1945 pm. 4 o'clock - The Hungarian Communist Party holds a mass meeting, where it presents its political program. Here, teacher Gézáné Horváth (Mrs. Horváth) reassures the population of Várpalota in her speech.
  • April 11, 1945 - The National Peasant Party is formed with the help of the MKP. President: Sándor Mórocz, secretary: János Kőváry.
  • April 13, 1945 - The National Commission establishes the local police and appoints Pápai as its head.
  • April 15, 1945 - The Farmers 'and Smallholders' Party announces its formation. Members of Management Team: M. József Bátor, Imre Bátor, Antal Bátor, Gyula Bátor, Lajos Szucs János Molnár, Gyula Berki, János Timár.
  • April 12, 1945 - The National Commission is formed. Its members are: Ferenc Madlovics, Imre Szabó, István Szabó, László Dittmayer MKP members, István Antal, Károly Jancsek, János Kárász, Ferenc Sági, NPP members, and Mrs. János Freund are non-partisan. The chairman of the NB: István Szabó, his secretary became Ferenc Madlovics.
  • April 22, 1945 - The Social Democratic Party is formed. Board members: Aladár Forgács, János Kovács, László Kertész, János Zima, Károly Timár.
  • April 25, 1945 - As only the Smallholder Party was formed in Inota, only five delegates of the Smallholder Party sit on the National Committee.
  • April 26, 1945 - The Social Democratic Party is formed in Pétfürdő. Members of the management: Ferenc Hőgye, Vendel Csóka, Rudolf Jenei, Lajos Prekkel, György Lencsés.
  • May 1, 1945 - Labor Day is celebrated under Communist leadership. The ruined houses are covered with green branches along the route of the parade, led by the understaffed Mining Wind Orchestra, about three thousand people march from the sports field to the main square. The solemn speech will be given by the local secretary of the Communist Party. The marchers march through a line of Soviet soldiers, and city orders also give speeches.
  • May 1945 - After the agreement of the Communist and Social Democratic Parties, as in other plants in the county, plant committees are set up in the Péti Nitrogénművek and in the mines of Várpalota to "enforce labor control" in the plants.
  • May 9, 1945 - The Hungarian Democratic Youth Association (MADISZ) is established in Várpalota and Pétfürdő after the formation of trade unions. President of the organization: György Somogyi, secretary: István Buzási. Four of the members of the leadership are members of the Communist Party. When it was formed, it had 215 members.
  • May 9, 1945 – The ending of war in Europe is celebrated. In the morning there is outdoor music and then a communist comitial is organized by the Communists. About 5-6 thousand people take part in the lantern parade
  • June 15, 1945 - Report of the local communists: five times so far there has been a communist people's assembly for approx. with the participation of 2-3000 people.
  • June 24, 1945 - Decree 414/1945 of the Chief Notary of the Veszprém District. The representative body of Várpalota is re-established on the basis of its provision no. Károly Timár, the chairman of the National Committee of the village, will chair the inaugural meeting in a school hall. Based on the decision of the NB, all parties, regardless of their number, may be equally represented on the Board of Representatives.
  • July 15, 1945 - The Soviet Heroic Monument is unveiled in accordance with the agreement between the communist village judge István Borzas and the local commander of the occupying Soviets. The plans were made by the Polish Tchaikovsky, and the construction of the pedestal and the part of the background is connected to the name of the mason Ferenc Berta.
  • July 1945 - The Democratic Association of Hungarian Women (MNDSZ) is formed in Pét, led by Kálmánné Pethe with 35-40 members.
  • July 29, 1945 - The election of the municipal presidency is held, where the Social Democrats, in cooperation with the small farmers, vote for József M. Bátor. Then a fight erupts because the communists do not like the end result, and then Zsigmond Raduly acts with the sub-spree (i.e. the county secretary of the national committee with communist influence) to set a new election.
  • August 8, 1945 - Archbishop Dr. Antal Rainprecht comes to Várpalota and considers the presidential election to be legal, therefore he recommends József M. Bátor as a judge. In the end, though, the Communist candidate István Borzas Sr. will be the village judge.
  • August 1945 - The Hungarian Women's Democratic Association (MNDSZ) is formed in Várpalota under the leadership of Miló Rutsek, who was previously an active member of the Mission Women's Association. At the end of the year, the organization already has 95 members, the distribution of its management by party: 10 MKP, 2 SZDP, 2 independent.
  • Autumn 1945 - Teachers Ida Hülber and Valéria Héra organize a folk dance group.
  • October 1945 - Kálmánné Pethe (Mrs. Pethe) forms the MNDSZ in Pétfürdő, of which 30 were mostly non-party members.
  • October 14, 1945 - The Communists hold a general assembly in Várpalota, where Erik Molnár, MKP list manager, Aliz Földes and Ferenc Harák spoke.
  • November 4, 1945 - In Várpalota, the MKP is well above the national average: 41% of voters vote for the Communists.
  • Early March 1946 - István Kovács, a member of the Central Executive of the MKP, presents the Communists 'plans at a miners' meeting, talking about a "nesting reaction" to the smallholder party. The secretary of the town party organization promises to deliver 60 wagons of coal a day on March 15 on behalf of the miners in Várpalota.
  • April 7, 1946 - The Communist Party celebrates the first anniversary. Party secretary Zsigmond Raduly praises the significance of the anniversary with unsolicited words, and then deputy party secretary János Steinhauer reads the party's founding protocol.
  • May 1, 1946 - The Petőfi Circle, organized by the Communist Party, launches a four-issue magazine entitled New World.
  • June 2, 1946 - the accession of Várpalota to Fejér County is on the agenda of the meeting of the Board of Representatives.
  • June 4, 1946 - MTI reports on the interrogation of Captain Bakos in Salzburg. “The interrogation of the main accused, Captain Bakos, continued on the eighth day of the trial in the Salzburg trial of Hungarian soldiers accused of killing American planes. Bakos continues to voice that he received instructions from the commander of the 2nd SS Armored Corps in Inota to execute U.S. prisoner of war pilots. He denied the allegation that he was a member of the Arrow Cross party. During his interrogation, it was revealed that the Ney battle group was facing a series of murders and looting, and witnesses testified that members of the group were also actively involved in the persecution of the Jews. It also turned out that the bodies of the murdered American pilots were robbed and their valuables taken. ”
  • February 2, 1947 - Imre Bátor, local president of the Independent Smallholders 'Party, gives his last political speech at a ceremony held at the Miners' Circle, organized for the first anniversary of the proclamation of the republic.
  • November 23, 1947 - The Social Democratic Party holds the inauguration ceremony in Várpalota, where Deputy Prime Minister Árpád Szakasits gives a solemn speech. Sándor Visnyei, Member of Parliament and János Borbély, Secretary of the Mining Organization also speak at the meeting.
  • December 29, 1947 - Three singer soloists compete in the District Music Competition in Várpalota as part of the 48th National Cultural Competition. The best of them is János Gácsi, who has a beautiful, strong, but still uneducated voice. He advances to the county race. Of the piano soloists, Magdolna Görög is the best, with works by Chopin and Tchaikovsky. Among the orchestras and singers, the Pétfürdő Working Orchestra and the Pétfürdő Workers' Choral Society win the first prize.
  • January 10, 1948 - The Várpalota Cultural Organization of Mining Workers is established. Leader: Ferenc Leitner Sr.
  • May 23, 1948 - The swearing-in of the newcomers of the first independent shooting battalion named after János Kiss is held in a ceremonial setting at Várpalota. Prime Minister Lajos Dinnyés will also take part in the ceremony.
  • June 13, 1948 - The Lutheran parish protests in a presbyterial statement through its high authority against the nationalization of its school. (The only active protest at Várpalota.)
  • September 5, 1948 - The Reformed Church organizes a conference of Reformed youth, women and men.
  • October 10, 1948 - József Darvas, Minister of Construction and Public Works and István Kossa, Minister of Industry hand over the miner's housing estate in Várpalota, built by the Ministry of Construction and Public Works, consisting of 29 family houses and terraced houses with 80 flats. At the handover, the two ministers gives a speech at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning.
  • December 31, 1948 - Opening of the first state kindergarten in Temető Street (Today is Mártírok Street). The first kindergarten teacher: József Gabriella.
  • 1948–1949 - A new boarding house with a warehouse, a bath and a repair shop is built for the Palota’s power plant.
  • 1949 - Inauguration of the Rákóczi (then still Rákosi) settlement, a two-room school, day care center is built.
  • 1949 - In place of the former Apprenticeship School, the num. 296 „Vájár” Digger (miner) Apprentice Institute starts operating in the building of the former Erzsébet Hotel, the Agriculturer’s Circle „(Gazda Kör”) and the old post office.
  • 1949 – A sports field is established in Pétfürdő which includes 9 dressing rooms as well as football field, running tracks and a bowling alley.
  • March 16, 1949 - The Honvéd Artillery Training Camp, which deals with the training and further training of artillery specialists, is established.
  • October 22, 1950 - The first council elections are held in Hungary, and thus in Várpalota.
  • October 22, 1950 - The Szabadság („Freedom”) House of Culture opens.
  • 1951 - The Inota mills are nationalized.
  • 1951 - Vocational Training Institute is created (Today Jenő Faller Vocational School).
  • June 1951 - Béla Hamvas works for the Power Plant Investment Company in Inota, where he begins to write his work Szarepta in addition to his work as a warehouse worker.
  • August 25, 1951 - A narrow cinema takes over the role of a cinema at the Szabadság (“Freedom”) Culture House.
  • October 21, 1951 - On this day, Minister of the Interior 5203-2 / 1951 enters into force /X.18./ BM decree, as a result of which Várpalota (at that time Pétfürdő was also a part) and Inota, which belonged to Fejér county until then, will be merged and declared a city at the same time.
  • November 7, 1951 - The November 7 thermal power plant is inaugurated in Inota. The inaugural ribbon is cut by Mátyás Rákosi.
  • 1952 - The barracks takes the name of Lajos Kossuth.
  • 1951–1959 - Recovers approx. 4000 living rooms, two clinics, hospital, workers' hostels, Palota hostel, Miner’s institute, Cultural Center of “Jó Szerencsét”, bread factory, twelve classroom schools, new mines, roads, parks, clarifiers, baths. Music school, MÁV, bus service between Várpalota-Inota-Pétfürdő-Csór-Ősi-Tés.
  • Night of July 2, 1952 - The State Defense Authority abducts Dr. Antal Steixner together with the most prestigious citizens of the settlement (for example, Dr. Jean Kornél veterinarian). Steixner was not released from his prison until 1954.
  • August 18, 1952 - Production begins at the Inota Aluminum Furnace.
  • September 1, 1952 - The Thury György Agricultural Co-operative is formed under the influence of coercion.
  • September 1, 1952 - teaching begins in the built primary school of the Rákóczi (then still Rákosi) settlement, as well as in the Vocational Training Institute No. 305 (Ma Jenő Faller Vocational Training School).
  • 1953 - The dormitory part of the Vocational Training Institute No. 305 is also completed. Until 1956, the school formed exclusively miners (hewers).
  • April 2, 1953 - The Urban Management Company is formed by merging three small companies.
  • June 1953 - The better farmers leave the Thury György Agricultural Co-operative under the leadership of Imre Bátor, so it is almost closed.
  • August 20, 1954 - The 28 m2 town library is handed over to Kossuth u. No. 29 (later Kossuth u. 31), in the nationalized house of wheeler master János Szurok. The head of the library is Gizella Papszt.
  • July 1, 1954 - The Várpalota Coal Mining Trust is established with the seat of Várpalota.
  • 1954 - National Miner's Swimming Championships in Várpalota.
  • March 4, 1955 - Council member János Koscsisák begins collecting signatures so that the city market is not located opposite the building of Drilling in Inota near the apartment of Sándor Balogh, the chairman of the council, but in Várpalota.
  • May 1, 1956 - The Hungarian Silver House of Culture opens in Inota.
  • June 20, 1956 - Bányász Rádió starts broadcasting half an hour a day, 600 town flats are connected.
  • July 1, 1956 - Várpalota - Körmöcbánya twinning relationship begins
  • September 9, 1956 - The Music School opens in Honvéd Street with a ceremonial opening.
  • October 24, 1956 - As a result of the events in Budapest, miner György Nagy (formerly a journalist) gives inciting speeches, for which he is arrested and later released.
  • October 25, 1956 - The Várpalota Party Committee supplies infantry weapons to the Communists of the November 7 Power Plant.
  • When it was said on the radio that a national-colored flag would be hoisted on each building, Sándor Sváb, a technician in the electrical laboratory, hoisted a red-white-green flag at the main entrance, cutting off the wire of the neon star. Then Sándor Sváb, headed by a group, goes to the head of the company, demanding that he send a welcome telegram to the government of Imre Nagy and remove the red stars.
  • October 26, 1956 - in the morning at the Petőfi Hotel, mainly younger workers begin to protest against the quality of the food. After the labor manager of the Coal Mine Trust, Béla Alsó Kaló, appeared here, the protesters, who became angry, marched in front of the Coal Mine Trust building under the leadership of Gyula Harasta.
  • At 4 p.m., participants in the protest demolish the Soviet monument, destroy the graveyard of Soviet soldiers, and then occupy the town council building. From here, they march to the town party committee building and then occupy it. Lieutenant Colonel Mihály Szekeres, wounded during the siege, Károly Ligmann, the second secretary of the party committee, and Nemoda, a political associate, were first taken to a hospital and then to the county police headquarters prison, where they were released by Soviet troops. Red stars are removed from public buildings. The insurgents disarm the police and then build a barricade and occupy a shooting range around the Akna Tavern and the former TÜZÉP site.
  • Between 6.30 pm and 7 pm, the insurgents attack the Soviet military convoy passing through the town from Hajmáskér to Székesfehérvár. In the clash, 14 Soviet soldiers and an insurgent are killed. Even this evening, a tank from Székesfehérvár and a car behind it are attacked, the car is shot out, and the driver or officer sitting in it loses his life.
  • In the evening, the Provisional National Revolutionary Council will be elected in the Palace Hotel (President: Károly Kelemen, secretary: Miklós Németh, members: József Bozsó, József Bőhm, police captain, Sándor Ludovics, József Szabó, Captain).
  • In the evening, the Provisional National Revolutionary Council will be elected in the Hotel Palota (President: Károly Kelemen, secretary: Miklós Németh, members: József Bozsó, József Bőhm, police captain, Sándor Ludovics, József Szabó, Captain).
  • October 26, 1956 - In the morning, people gathered around the Soviet military tomb and memorial column in Inota to overthrow the red star column. The Inota National Committee (chairman: Máté Csajtay, former chief notary of the village) and the National Guard (commander: László Pottornyai) are formed in the former town hall.
  • October 27, 1956 - Another demonstration begins, during which insurgents march to the barracks and demand weapons. Although they are promised to fulfill the claim, they still shoot among them. They return to the barracks several times during the day to demand the release of the person in charge of the fire order. A rifle-reinforced unit of the Rifle Regiment from “Lenti” is sent to rescue the barracks.
  • The Labor Council (chaired by József Némedi), the National Guard, will be formed at the November 7 Thermal Power Plant and the company will be taken over. The Free Miner Radio starts broadcasting in Várpalota.
  • October 27, 1956 - The insurgents put a cross on the wall of the Hungarian Silver House of Culture, and several speeches are made here. A large wooden cross will also be erected at the Standby (“Készenléti”) Housing Estate.
  • October 28, 1956 - The Revolutionary Council is formed in Várpalota, and the Revolutionary Guard is organized to ensure order. On the same day, Árpád Brusznyai arrives in the city to investigate what happened the previous day.
  • October 30, 1956 - The Workers' Council is formed in the Ernő mine (chairman: Ferenc Dreska).
  • November 3, 1956 - The Diary of Várpalota, the newspaper of the City National Revolutionary Council, is published. Concluding remarks: “NO! NO! NO! We don't bargain, we don't restore, we grew the old, we want a new one because we won! Free elections before the eyes of the world! We don't want a disguised ÁVH! We don't want to see a Russian! "
  • November 2, 1956 - The Workers' Council is formed in the Ferenc mine (chairman: Ferenc Szeivolt vájár).
  • November 4, 1956 - In protest of Soviet military intervention, smelter production ceases. Led by Sándor Szabó, National Guard Commander, the insurgents occupy the garrison barracks, which has meanwhile been depopulated. At night, the Barracks Cseri are occupied by the Soviets.
  • November 5, 1956 - Under the leadership of National Guard Commander Sándor Szabó, the insurgents march to Bakony to continue fighting the Soviets.
  • November 6, 1956 - Free Miner Radio falls silent. The miners are on strike, announcing the so-called "Three mica movement". Károly Kelemen, the chairman of the Town Revolutionary Council, recognizes Mátyás Martinkó as the mining director and Martinkó vice versa him the head of the council.
  • Dawn from November 6, 1956 to November 7, 1956 - The mine's clothing store was completely looted. The perpetrators are unknown.
  • November 7, 1956 -
  • November 8, 1956 - The second Workers' Council is formed in the Ferenc mine (chairman: Lajos Tóth).
  • The Provisional Management Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party in Várpalota will be established in the building next to Thury Castle. Secretary: Mihály Buzai, deputy: Sándor Baski, members: Ferenc Madlovics, Jánosné Mártai, Áron Nagy, Kálmán Supka, Mihály Szekeres.
  • November 13, 1956 - A delegation from the Metal Processing Plant in Veszprém comes to Várpalota and calls for a strike.
  • November 1956 - The posters of the organized MSZMP, regularly stuck at night with Soviet soldiers, are regularly torn off by the people, and even leaflets in Russian are published against the Soviet occupation.
  • December 1956 - The so-called "Pufajkások" group, later the Workers' Guard, initially composed of Ferenc Bene, Béla Alsó Kaló, János Mártai, István Mészáros Sr., Áron Nagy, János Patonai, János Wittmann Sr. Their permanent residence: Zichy Castle. Their leader: Mihály Szekeres.
  • January 20, 1957 - Teacher Éva Mike is arrested for scattering leaflet. (She will later be sentenced to 14 months in prison.)
  • End of February 1957 - The KISZ established in Várpalota.
  • Early March 1957 – At the Thermal Power November 7 the workers 'guard is formed the activity of the Workers' Council is practically ceased.
  • March 10-13, 1957 - The Workers' Guard of Várpalota, together with other armed organizations, will start collecting “suspects” to prevent the MÚK. During the campaign, approx. 300 people were detained and placed in the Barracks named “Mandulás”.
  • March 11, 1957 - In Zichy Castle, mass of people are beaten for fear of the MÚK.
  • March 16-17, 1957 - The collected persons will be released home in small groups from the “Mandulás” Barracks. The deterrent raids of members of force and the intimidation of the population continue.
  • March 31, 1957 - The subunits of the Várpalota Workers' Guard Battalion hold a demonstrative parade in the main square of the town, accompanied by the Mining Wind Orchestra.
  • April 4, 1957 - The Soviet monument which was demolished in the revolution is consecrated again under ceremonial conditions.
  • Autumn 1957 - Speaker of the Mining Day is Ferenc Nezvál, Minister of Justice (one of the main leaders of the Kádárist retaliation)
  • October 4, 1957 - The Local History Museum is established in the Cultural Centre of “Jó Szerencsét”.
  • 1958 - Renovation of Thury Castle begins.
  • September 6, 1958 - The new building of the Cultural Centre of “Jó Szerencsét” opens its doors in honor of the VIII.Hungarian Mining Day.
  • 1959 - The number of peasant families is 360, the number of artisans is 106, miners are 3764. Local miner 1807 people, commuters 1178, lives in hostels 779. Reconstruction of the castle begins public lighting and the road network is modernized.
  • 1959 - The Thuri György Grammar School begins its operation with 12 classes in the building of Primary School No. 1 (formerly Lutheran School, later Várkerti Primary School).
  • 1959 - The Wild Roses Puppet Ensemble is formed under the leadership of Sára Fodor Pacsuné.
  • March 7, 1959 – In Inota is created the Agricultural Co-operative “November 7”as a result of "socialist organizing work" since January with 80 members.
  • April 4, 1959 - The House of Culture of the Thermal Power Plant, the Cultural Centre of “Béke” is handed.
  • February 14, 1960 - As a result of the “epoch-making agricultural socialist reorganization,” the Agricultural Co-operative “Jó Szerencsét” with 114 families was established.
  • November 25, 1961 – Handover of the Primary School No 2. (it is the St. John of Nepomuk Roman Catholic School today) in the rebuilt building.
  • 1963 - The building of the Thuri György Grammar School is completed, and the grammar school starts the new school year here.
  • 1963 - The auxiliary school becomes independent.
  • December 2, 1963 - The new library buliding in Kossuth street number 6. at the inauguration ceremony took the name of the Krúdy Gyula Town Library. The children's library will remain in its old place.
  • January 2, 1964 - The Town Children's Library begins to operate independently.
  • 1965–1966 - An amusement park is established next to Lake Grábler in social work.
  • October 7, 1966 - Várpalota and Körmöcbánya sign a twinning agreement.
  • January 1968 – The Agricultural Co-operativ "November 7"and the Agricultural Co-operativ ”Jó Szerencsét”fuse and continue to operate under the latter name with 308 members and 3,536 hectares. Its president will be György Mórocz.
  • 1969 - The Museum of Chemistry opens at Thury Castle.
  • 1970 - Károly Tenczer is appointed director of the Cultural House of “Béke”.
  • 1973–1975 - Inota tumulus / mound graves are excavated.
  • 1973 - The Honvéd Artillery Training Camp ceases to exist.
  • 1973 - The Hungarian Silver House of Culture houses the city's fine art collection.
  • 1975 - Based on the relevant measure of the MN VKF, the 7300th Artillery Training Center is established.
  • September 4, 1976 - The Mining History Collection of Várpalota (today: Count Antal Sztáray Mining Museum) opens in the XXVI.Hungarian Mining Day's as part ofa national series of events in the centenary year of the beginning of mining in Várpalota.
  • 1977 - The Artillery Museum of Branch opens in Zichy Castle. Its leader is Lieutenant Colonel Gyula Ungvári.
  • 1979 - Várpalota has a population of 29,444.
  • 1980 - The only ice rink in Veszprém county is built in Pétfürdő, based on the cooling energy of the nearby ammonia plant.
  • Summer 1980 - The three-storey, two-escalator Palota Skála Department Store is built on the site of the former youth buffet, after the György Thuri Workers' Cooperative joined the Skála department store chain.
  • September 1, 1981 - No. 9. Establishment of a Primary School (today: András Vásárhelyi Primary School).
  • 1983 - A significant part of the city is connected to district heating using steam generated at the Inota 7 November power plant. This is when the so-called small power plant that had performed this task until then.
  • 1984 - The Artillery Museum of the Branch takes on the name of Áron Gábor, a Szekler artillery officer and cannon caster. The new name: Gábor Áron Artillery Museum.
  • 1984 - The swimming pool, built in 1935, is closed, its pool is buried and its location is landscaped.
  • February 3, 1984 - Deputy Prime Minister István Sarlós opens the 27th Agricultural Book Month in Inota, at the Cultural Centre of „Béke” (the central opening ceremony of the national series of events).
  • October 23, 1986 - As part of the ceremony of the 1st Várpalota Days, the Gyula Nagy Gallery opens within the walls of the synagogue, and the town takes over the Matzon collection.
  • October 17, 1988 - The Vocational High School and Vocational Training School take on the name of Jenő Faller.
  • March 13, 1989 - Várpalota Town Television broadcasts the first broadcast.
  • April 2, 1991 - Establishment of the Private School of Skills and Talent Development.
  • July 1, 1991 - The town's self-funded hospital (without state and county assistance) is handed over.
  • October 1, 1991 - The 7300th Artillery Training Center is liquidated, and also the Local Guard Club. All military buildings will be completely evacuated, and equipment and fixtures will be removed.
  • 1992 - The monthly newspaper of the Catholic parish, the Parish News, is launched. Edited by Károly Nagy.
  • October 31, 1992 - The Central Training and Shooting Range Command is formed after the unit is resettled from the Treasure Camp.
  • February 21, 1994 - Sándor Bartos, teacher, honorary citizen of Várpalota, dies.
  • May 1, 1994 - Inauguration of the Inota Community House.
  • July 25, 1994 - Posthumous Major Antal Kránitz, Sergeant Károly Pleszkán, Army Tibor Tordai, Army László Papp die in a minesweeper accident.
  • November 25, 1994 - A preferential loan agreement for the disbursement of JPY 4.9 billion was concluded between the Government of the Republic of Hungary and the Japanese OECF for the implementation of public utility development in Várpalota and its area.
  • 1994 - Endre Bardócz, founding director of Thuri György Grammar School, dies.
  • June 30, 1996 - Coal mining is permanently discontinued with the last coal-filled mica of the New Francis shaft.
  • November 19, 1996 - Demonstration for the city hospital
  • 1996 - Geological Research and Drilling Ltd. closes.
  • 1997 - At the call of the Pan-European Union's Várpalota organization, some 9,000 people take to the streets to protest to save the town's hospital.
  • 1997 - The first altar of Divine Mercy outside Krakow is erected with a relic of St. Faustina and a copy of the image of the grace. With this, Várpalota becomes a Transdanubian pilgrimage site of Divine Mercy.
  • October 1, 1997 - Pétfürdő separates from Várpalota into an independent village.
  • October 26, 1999 - Consecration of the tomb of the 56th martyr László Marton.
  • 2000 - The Inota wind farm, the first Hungarian wind turbine in Hungary, is put into operation in Inota.
  • September 2000 - The 295th István Zichy scout team is established.

 

21st Century

  • October 13, 2001 - The Association of Local Authorities in Europe International Association (TEMA) is established.
  • July 1, 2002 - Inota Thermal Power Plant closes.
  • 2004 - After the reorganisations, the local army unit continues to operate under the name Bakony Military Training Center.
  • June 26, 2004 - The Trianon Museum opens its doors.
  • June 28, 2004 - The municipal representative bodies of Várpalota, Berhida, Pétfürdő, Öskü, Ősi, Tés settlements establish the Várpalota Micro-Region Multi-Purpose Association.
  • July 4, 2006 - Local historian Sára Pacsuné Fodor, honorary citizen of Várpalota, dies.
  • 26 April, 2007 Based on the num. 142/2007 decision of the Board of Representatives, Várpalota joined the Association for Bakony Tourism.
  • June 28, 2007 According to the num.199/2007 Board of Representative’s decision Várpalota joined the National Association of Mining Settlements in Hungary
  • September 15, 2007 The naming ceremony of the Count Antal Sztáray Mining History Collection.
  • September 22, 2007 The “Felsővárosi” (Upper Town) Local History Museum and Accommodation was inaugurated in Rózsakút Street November 17, 2007 Laying of the foundation stone of the Kulák monument.
  • December 4, 2007 A set of information boards in Várpalota was placed at the railway station
  • 29 April 29, 2008, the cornerstone of the New Zealand roofing plant was laid
  • 1 March, 2008, the toy castle (playground) forming the castle of Várpalota was handed over next to the Jókai Street heating center.
  • 21 October, 2008, a memorial plaque was placed in the Lower Town Cemetery at the Tomori- spring
  • 22 May, 2009, the Youth House was handed over in the Ady housing estate.
  • 28 November, 2009 The Inota Retro Theater opened its doors.
  • 4 December, 2009, a marble plaque and a monument were inaugurated in memory of the Artillery Training Center and the Artillery of Várpalota. 
  • 13 May, 2010, the Seven-Hand Social Cooperative was formed.
  • 28 May, 2010 The” Rákóczi Telepi (estate’s) Friends Circle” was founded.
  • 28 May, 2010, St. Barbara's (Borbála) Square was inaugurated at the Rákóczi-telep.
  • 29 May, 2010, a memorial plaque was erected in memory of the Franciscan monastery.
  • 11 June, 2010, a chamber gallery was opened in the library, where the artists of Várpalota will have the opportunity to introduce themselves. 
  • 26 February, 2011 Painter Antal Tatár died.
  • 9-13 June, 2011 The last time the nationally famous Pannonia Festival was held in Várpalota
  • 15 June, 2011, the renovated and expanded” Ringató” Nursery building was handed over with EU support. 
  • 11 March, 2012 Inauguration of a memorial plaque in honor of György Hrabowszky Lutheran pastor and writer in the Lutheran church.
  • 23 September, 2012 The Day Care Home for the Disabled continues to operate under the new name, Bóbita House.
  • November 2012 The town's first EU-funded cycle path was handed over.
  • 2 February, 2013, the artificial grass sports field was handed over.
  • 27 February, 2013,  the state takes over HUF 1.093 billion of the town's significant debt of HUF 1.561 billio
  • 3 March, 2013, The foundation stone-laying ceremony of the complex investment for the
  • rehabilitation of the Tési-domb district was held.
  • 1 May, 2013, a monument was inaugurated in the Lower Town (“Alsóvárosi”) Cemetery in
  • memory of soldiers and laborers who died in World War II.
  • In July 2013, a new office building (incubator house) was inaugurated in Szent István Street.
  • 28 February, 2014, the Nursing Home adopted the name Home for the Elderly.
  • 10 March, 2014, a residential forest school called the “Zöld Tanoda” (Green School) was
  • established.
  • In June 2014, new pediatric surgeries were handed over in the town center (Újlaky Street).
  • 29, June 29, 2014, a memorial plaque was erected in memory of the Jews of Várpalota who
  • were abducted in 1944.
  • 6, October, 2014, the renovated Black Diamond Activity Club was handed over.
  • 27 January, 2015, the new downtown studio and editorial office of the town television
  • “Várpalotai Hírcentrum Nonprofit Kft.” was inaugurated.
  • 1 April, 2015, The “Pure Heart” Laundry and Dressmaker’s Shop opened.
  • In June, 2015, A carved stud (“kopjafa”) was erected at the court of Jenő Faller Vocational
  • School memory of the cooperation of this school and the Károly Kós Lyceum in
  • Sepsiszentgyörgy.
  • 29 August, 2015, the Order of the Knights inaugurated knights in the Roman Catholic Church
  • in Várpalota.
  • December 2015, The renovated St. Donat's Hospital was handed over and as a result of the
  • nearly 800 million investment, outpatient specialist care became available in one place.
  • 26 May, 2016. Ferenc Schmidt, former Member of Parliament, Vice-President of the '56 Club
  • in Várpalota, passed away.
  • 1 July, 2016, during the deactivation of a World War II bomb in Hortobágy, Staff Sergeant
  • Attila Juhász and three of his colleagues lost their lives.
  • 4-6 August, 2016 The Association of Town and Village Defenders (Hungaria Nostra)
  • organized the national meeting and professional conference in Várpalota.
  • In August 2016, the renovated section of the main road 8 passing through Várpalota was
  • handed over, which was realized during an investment of HUF 600 million.
  • 27 August, 2016, Várpalota signed a twinning agreement with Gazipasa, Turkey.
  • 18. December, 2016. József Völgyi, former political convict, prisoner of the Gulag, leader of
  • the workers 'council, member of the '56 Association of Várpalota' died.
  • 14 May, 2017. Lajos Egerszegi, a 1956 revolutionist, president of the '56 club in Várpalota, and an honorary citizen of Várpalota, passed away.

 

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Compiled and written by László Budai, translated by Jolán Csizmadia, Krudy Gyula Town Library (C) 2022