1989 Event
Pan-European Picnic
On 19 August Hungary opens its border with Austria: the first breach in the Iron Curtain.
What leads to what
Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.Downstream
- leads to Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 Une frontière ouverte trois heures, et la brèche ne se referme plus.
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Within twenty-five years of 1989 — the context national timelines leave out.- same year Velvet Revolution Czechia
- same year Fall of the Berlin Wall
- same year Baltic Way Lithuania
- same year December revolution Romania
- 1 year later German reunification Germany
- 1 year earlier Singing Revolution Estonia
- 1 year later Independence restored Lithuania
- 2 years later Independence of Croatia Croatia
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