✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
December murders 1982-12-08 - 1982-12-09
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état 1983-08-04
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Operation Blue Star 1984-06-01 - 1984-06-10
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Iran–Contra affair 1985-08-20 - 1987-03-04
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency 1987
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Somali Civil War 1991-01-26
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
1991 Soviet coup attempt 1991-08-19 - 1991-08-21
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26
Belovezha Accords 1991-12-08
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Zapatista uprising 1994-01-01 - 1994-01-12
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
East Timorese independence referendum 1999-08-30

People

Hugo Chávez age 25
President - Venezuela
Lech Wałęsa age 36
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenko age 25
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 43
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 52
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 56
President - Zimbabwe
Ferdinand Marcos age 62
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 42
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 64
President - Chile
Suharto age 58
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 62
President - Romania
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 39
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 18
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 40
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 47
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 43
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 43
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 38
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 16
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 42
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 34
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 42
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 52
President - Georgia
Thomas Sankara age 30
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 37
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 34
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 42
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 36
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 57
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 57
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 56
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 39
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 73
President - Senegal
F. W. de Klerk age 44
State President - South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko age 49
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emomali Rahmon age 27
President - Tajikistan
Julius Nyerere age 58
President - Tanzania
Saparmurat Niyazov age 40
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 35
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 41
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 55
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 43
President - Tunisia
Leonid Kravchuk age 46
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 33
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 41
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 37
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 27
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 52
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 12
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 47
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 44
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 76
President - Tunisia
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 36
President - Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Teodoro Obiang age 37
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 43
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 36
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 90
President - Malawi
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 59
King - Saudi Arabia
Hamad II of Bahrain age 30
Emir - Bahrain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 50
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 39
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 25
President - Poland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 38
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 44
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 54
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Franjo Tuđman age 58
President - Croatia
Jorge Rafael Videla age 54
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 79
President - Finland
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 41
President - Georgia
Hassan II age 50
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 56
President - Zambia
Alan García age 31
President - Peru
Carlos Menem age 49
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 25
President - Armenia
Kenan Evren age 62
President - Turkey
Sali Berisha age 35
President - Albania
Michel Aoun age 46
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 16
King - Lesotho
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 55
President - Pakistan
Isaias Afwerki age 34
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 25
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 43
President - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 18
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 50
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 52
President - South Korea
Sandro Pertini age 83
President - Italy
Mohammed Omar age 20
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 43
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 76
King - Norway
Yahya Jammeh age 14
President - The Gambia
Alfredo Stroessner age 67
President - Paraguay
Fidel Ramos age 52
President - Philippines
Aslan Maskhadov age 28
President - Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 58
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 37
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 28
President - Ireland
Mauno Koivisto age 56
President - Finland
Milton Obote age 54
President - Uganda
Gustáv Husák age 67
President - Czechoslovakia
Blaise Compaoré age 29
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 61
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 53
President - Lithuania
Samora Moisés Machel age 46
President - Mozambique
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 34
President - Sri Lanka
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
Raúl Alfonsín age 53
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 49
President - South Korea
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 40
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mohammad Najibullah age 32
President - Afghanistan
Ivan Gašparovič age 39
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 59
President - India
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 74
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 55
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 57
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 55
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 28
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 46
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 32
President - Djibouti
Amadou Toumani Touré age 31
President - Mali
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 39
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 24
King - Bhutan
Violeta Chamorro age 50
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 69
President - India
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 42
President - Latvia
Siad Barre age 60
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 40
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 51
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 36
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 43
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 62
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 47
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 32
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 64
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 41
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 61
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 61
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 35
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 47
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 47
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 54
President - Albania
Leopoldo Galtieri age 53
President - Argentina
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 35
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 40
President - Botswana
Seretse Khama age 58
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 55
President - Cameroon
Lennart Meri age 51
President - Estonia
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 67
President - India
Charles Taylor age 32
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 42
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 57
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 44
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 43
President - Philippines
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 28
President - Haiti
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 73
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 47
President - Myanmar
Fernando de la Rúa age 42
President - Argentina
Lansana Conté age 45
President - Guinea
René Préval age 37
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 63
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 40
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 53
President - Greece
Ziaur Rahman age 44
President - Bangladesh
Abdou Diouf age 44
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 39
President - Slovenia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 41
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 45
President - Bulgaria
Hissène Habré age 37
President - Chad
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 26
President - Haiti
Árpád Göncz age 58
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 37
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 55
President - Israel
Isaac Navon age 59
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 44
President - Lebanon
Samuel Doe age 29
President - Liberia
Ne Win age 69
President - Myanmar
Benjamin Mkapa age 41
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 35
President - Albania
Reynaldo Bignone age 52
President - Argentina
Ayaz Mutallibov age 42
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 54
President - Botswana
David Dacko age 50
President - Central African Republic
Leonel Fernández age 26
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 41
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 55
President - Singapore
Canaan Banana age 44
President - Zimbabwe
Azali Assoumani age 21
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 34
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 23
President - North Macedonia
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 65
President - Pakistan
Choi Kyu-hah age 60
President - South Korea
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 65
President - Austria
Petar Stoyanov age 27
President - Bulgaria
Patricio Aylwin age 61
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 63
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 80
King - Eswatini
Farooq Leghari age 39
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 40
President - Romania
Chadli Bendjedid age 51
President - Algeria