After the extinction of the Solymosi branch of the Aba family, King Sigismund donated the village to Peter Rozgonyi [hu], Bishop of Eger (1425-1438), who handed it over to the diocese in exchange for an estate.

In the 18th century the village began to develop: school, post office, inn, stone bridges, horse changing station, mills, manorial sheep farm and beekeeping established.

On February 26–27 in 1849 was the Battle of Kápolna that makes the village famous even today took place as an event of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849.

On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Kápolna, the village commemorated the event that took place here with a sculpture composition erected in the then Kossuth-Dembinszky Memorial Park.

On February 23, 1919 Mihály Károlyi the landowner and the first president of the country distributing his lands among the peasants.

After 1989 the library functions as a cultural center, new doctor's office and folk museum opened.