1980 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Polonia
Solidarity
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
La construcción europea no empezó en 1950. Este hilo une la herencia antigua, la matriz judeocristiana y la Unión contemporánea.
15 acontecimientos
1980 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Polonia
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
1980 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Islandia
Iceland elects the world’s first woman head of state by direct universal suffrage.
1981 Acontecimiento Construcción europea Grecia
As the tenth member, Greece anchors its restored democracy in Community Europe.
1984 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Liechtenstein
The last country in Europe to grant it, by a male-only referendum.
1985 Tratado Construcción europea
Five states sign on the Moselle an agreement progressively abolishing internal border controls.
1986 Acontecimiento Construcción europea España
With Portugal, Spain joins the EEC: southern enlargement consecrates democratisation.
1986 Acontecimiento Construcción europea Portugal
Portugal joins the EEC on the same day as Spain and begins rapid economic catch-up.
1986 Catástrofe Época contemporánea Bielorrusia
Nearly 70 % of the radioactive fallout lands on Belarusian territory.
1986 Tratado Construcción europea
The internal market is scheduled for 1993 and qualified majority voting extended.
1988 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Estonia
Three hundred thousand Estonians sing banned anthems together: dissent becomes massive.
1989 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Rumanía
The only violent fall of a European communist regime; Ceaușescu is executed on 25 December.
1989 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Chequia
In a few weeks and without violence the regime falls; Václav Havel becomes president.
1989 Acontecimiento Construcción europea Hungría
On 19 August Hungary opens its border with Austria: the first breach in the Iron Curtain.
1989 Acontecimiento Época contemporánea Lituania
Two million people form a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius.
1989 Acontecimiento Construcción europea
9 November opens German reunification and, in time, that of the continent.