1990 Event

Independence restored

Name: Independence restored
Start: 1990

On 11 March Lithuania is the first republic to leave the USSR.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Upstream

leads to Baltic Way 1989 Deux millions de mains, et la Lituanie déclare la première.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1990 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year German reunification Germany
1 year later Ten-Day War Slovenia
1 year earlier Velvet Revolution Czechia
1 year earlier Fall of the Berlin Wall
1 year earlier Pan-European Picnic Hungary
1 year earlier December revolution Romania
1 year later Independence of Croatia Croatia
1 year earlier Baltic Way Lithuania

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

Lithuania

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What was written of it

A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and will form the European brotherhood.

Victor Hugo 1849

Opening address to the Peace Congress, Paris

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