1991 Event

Independence of Moldova

Name: Independence of Moldova
Start: 1991

The republic proclaims sovereignty on 27 August, days after the Moscow putsch.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1991 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Independence of Croatia Croatia
same year Independence of Estonia restored Estonia
same year Independence of Latvia restored Latvia
same year Ten-Day War Slovenia
1 year later Maastricht Treaty
1 year later Bosnian War Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 year earlier Independence restored Lithuania
1 year earlier German reunification Germany

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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

Moldova

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

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