1989 Event
Velvet Revolution
In a few weeks and without violence the regime falls; Václav Havel becomes president.
What leads to what
Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.Upstream
- echoes Prague Spring 1968 Vingt et un ans séparent l’écrasement de la reprise.
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Within twenty-five years of 1989 — the context national timelines leave out.- same year Pan-European Picnic Hungary
- 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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