1990s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Events and Trends
- Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990
- Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology
- Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994.
- Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions
- Cloning (of Dolly, the sheep) achieved
- Break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 -- the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world superpower
- Human Genome Project begun
- Global human impact on the environment widely accepted
- Peace process begins in Northern Ireland.
- Balkan war in former Yugoslavia
- Gulf War and embargo on Iraq
- After 1992 the booming of the stock market, which stretched into the dot-com boom/dot-com bubble
- Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and his Impeachment trial
- Grunge music
- Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K)
- Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
- End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela
- North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
- A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland
- Divorce and scandal rocks the British Royal House of Windsor
- Assasination of Selena Quintanilla
- O.J.'s trial, called by many the trial of the century
- You go, girl! becomes a popular phrase as the media gives feminist movements a boost with The Spice Girls, the WNBA, women's boxing, Sex and the City and others showcasing feminine talent.
- The Vieques controversy
World Leaders
Entertainers
Sports figures
Music
See also: 1990s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 1990s
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