1991

1991 — Korea: 9월 18일 남북한이 유엔(UN) 동시 가입 / China: May — Legislative Yuan and National Assembly delegates elected in 1947 resigns / Japan: January — Japanese asset price bubble has been popped, ending the Japanese economic miracle and triggering the prolonged period of economic decline known as the "Lost Decades" / United States: Cold War

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KoreaSouth Korea 1948–ChinaChina 1949–JapanHeisei era 1989–2019United StatesUnited States 1776–
  • 9월 18일 남북한이 유엔(UN) 동시 가입KO
  • 12월 9일 국제노동기구(ILO)가입KO
  • December. The end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses and North Korea loses military and economic aid.
  • 19896월 30일 임수경이 방북
  • 19901월 22일 노태우·김영삼·김종필이 3당 합당을 선언하고 민주자유당을 결성
  • 199011 September. South Korea and the USSR establish diplomatic relations.
  • 1992August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre.
  • 1992August. South Korea and the People's Republic of China (PRC) establish diplomatic relations.
  • 19938월 12일 금융실명제 실시
  • 19932월 25일 김영삼 대통령 취임, 문민정부 출범
  • 1993Test of Rodong-1, a single-stage, mobile liquid propellant medium-range ballistic missile by the North Korea.
  • May — Legislative Yuan and National Assembly delegates elected in 1947 resigns.
  • 月-6月,华东地区发生严重水灾,因灾死亡至少431人。ZH
  • 月,越共总书记杜梅和部长会议主席武文杰正式访华,两国领导人发表联合公报,结束13年敌对、实现关系正常化,此前越南共产党中央委员会总书记阮文灵和部长会议主席杜梅于1990年9月访问中国四川成都,与中共中央总书记江泽民、总理李鹏就中越关系和柬埔寨问题进行秘密会谈(参见:中越关系)。ZH
  • 月-8月,山东省部分地区提出“百日无孩”的计划生育运动。ZH
  • December — The Soviet Union officially dissolves leaving the People's Republic of China as the only major communist state on Earth.
  • The first McDonald's restaurant in mainland China opened in Beijing.
  • 月14日,毛泽东夫人江青在监狱中自杀身亡。ZH
  • 月,中共中央总书记江泽民与苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫签订《中苏国界东段协定》。ZH
  • 月,中华人民共和国、中华台北、香港三个经济体正式加入亚太经济合作组织(APEC)。ZH
  • 月,山西三交河矿难造成147人死亡。ZH
  • 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  • 1989月4日凌晨,解放军戒严部队武力驱离在北京天安门广场等地的示威群众(六四清场),结束了长达五十天的抗议运动,同时造成大量人员伤亡,史称“六四事件”。
  • 1989月,第十四世达赖喇嘛获得诺贝尔和平奖。
  • 1989月24日,中共十三届四中全会选举江泽民为中国共产党中央委员会总书记,赵紫阳被撤销中共中央总书记、中央政治局常务委员等职务,中央政治局常委胡启立等领导人被免职,1980年代后期政治体制改革失败。
  • 19891989 Mao portrait vandalism incident
  • 1989People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  • 1989月,长江葛洲坝水利枢纽建成。
  • 1989月26日,《人民日报》头版刊发《四二六社论》,将学生运动定性为“动乱”,激化了中国共产党与抗议者之间的矛盾,引发了全国各地的“四二七大游行”。
  • 1989April — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: A crowd gathered at the Monument to the People's Heroes.
  • 1989月,西藏拉萨发生骚乱事件,造成人员伤亡。
  • 1989月15日,前中共中央總書記胡耀邦逝世,引发以大学生为主的大规模悼念活动,逐渐转化为学生爱国行动。
  • 1989月20日,针对八九民运,时任中国国务院总理李鹏颁布国务院令,在北京市部分地区实行戒严。
  • 1989月9日,中共十三届五中全会通过《中共中央关于进一步治理整顿和深化改革的决定》,判定改革开放进展过快,开放政策受到质疑;江泽民接替邓小平出任中国共产党中央军事委员会主席。
  • 1989June — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Anywhere from 241 to 5 thousand people killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
  • 1989月15日,苏共中央总书记戈尔巴乔夫访华,与中共领导人邓小平 、赵紫阳会面,中苏关系正常化。
  • 1989月25日-26日,时任美国总统乔治·H·W·布什访问中国,在北京与中共中央军委主席邓小平、中共中央总书记赵紫阳、中国国家主席杨尚昆、中国国务院总理李鹏等人会面。
  • 1989胡耀邦病逝。八九民運。六四清场。中共十三届五中全会江泽民就任中共中央总书记和中央军委主席;改革开放暂缓。《中华人民共和国集会游行示威法》出台。中国东方航空5510号班机空难。中国国际航空981号班机劫机事件。
  • 1989月9日,邓小平发表《在接见首都戒严部队军以上干部时的讲话》。
  • 1989月31日,全国人大常委会通过《中华人民共和国集会游行示威法》,规定集会、游行、示威须提前申请并按照获得批准的内容进行。
  • 1990月8日,麦当劳在深圳市开设首家中国大陆分店。
  • 1990月26日,上海证券交易所成立。
  • 1990月1日,深圳证券交易所成立。
  • 1990月18日,中国国务院总理李鹏宣布中央同意上海开发、开放浦东。
  • 1990Wild Lily student movement
  • 1990李登輝當選第八任中華民國總統。台湾爆发野百合學運。《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區基本法》正式颁布。北京亚运会。中华人民共和国与新加坡共和国建交。上海证券交易所与深圳证券交易所先后成立。
  • 1990月11日-12日,中国红十字会与中华民国红十字会签署《金门协议》以解决两岸重大罪犯遣返的问题。
  • 1990月8日,十大元帥之一、前国防部部长徐向前去世。
  • 1990月,中华人民共和国第四次全国人口普查显示中国总人口超过11亿。
  • 1990月,中国开始参加联合国主导的维和行动。
  • 1990月8日,中国恢复与印度尼西亚的外交关系。
  • 1990月3日,中华人民共和国与新加坡建交。
  • 1990月,广州白云机场劫机相撞事件造成128人死亡。
  • 1990月-10月, 北京举办第十一届亚洲运动会。
  • 1990月,江泽民接替邓小平出任中华人民共和国中央军事委员会主席。
  • 1992Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
  • 1992月24日,中国和以色列建立外交关系。
  • 1992月24日,中国与大韩民国建立外交关系。
  • 1992月,中共中央总书记江泽民访问日本,会见日本明仁天皇 。
  • 1992月11日,浦东新区正式成立,成为中国第一个国家级新区。
  • 1992月,日本明仁天皇与皇后美智子应中国国家主席杨尚昆邀请访问中国。
  • 1992邓小平南巡。李洪志创立法轮功。大韩民国与中华人民和国建交,与中华民国断交。上海市浦东新区成立。
  • 1992月12日-18日,中国共产党第十四次全国代表大会在北京召开,江泽民在10月19日召开的中共十四届一中全会上连任中共中央总书记,其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李鹏、乔石、李瑞环、朱镕基、刘华清、胡锦涛(参见:中国共产党第十四届中央委员会)。中共十四大明确了建立社会主义市场经济体制的改革目标。
  • 1992月,中国证券监督管理委员会(证监会)成立。
  • 1992Deng Xiaoping traveled south to reassert the economy policy.
  • 1992First free democratic elections for the Legislative Yuan held since 1948 in Taiwan only.
  • 1992月18日-2月21日,邓小平南巡(又称“九二南巡”)视察深圳、珠海、广州、上海等地,并发表重要讲话,强调“谁不改革,谁就下台”,因六四事件而放缓甚至停滞的中国改革开放自此重新提速,而九二南巡还拯救了当时中国新兴的资本市场。
  • 1992月14日,十大元帥之一、前全国人大常委会副委员长聂荣臻逝世。
  • 1992月5日,国务院决定停止自1986年起实行的夏时制。
  • 1992月31日,“南京7·31空难”造成106-109人丧生。
  • 1992月24日,“桂林11·24空难”造成141人丧生。
  • 1992月26日-30日,中华人民共和国与中华民国在香港举行会谈,达成《九二共识》。
  • 1993月,国务院作出了《关于金融体制改革的决定》,以建立独立执行货币政策的中央银行宏观调控体系,将政策性金融与商业性金融分离,健全金融市场,统一汇率改革外汇市场。
  • 1993月15日-31日,在第八届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上,江泽民接替杨尚昆出任中华人民共和国主席,李鹏连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。会议对《八二宪法》进行了第二次修改,确立了“中国特色社会主义”、“社会主义市场经济”、“坚持改革开放”等表述。
  • 1993Yinhe incident
  • 1993汪辜会谈。新黨成立。
  • 1993April — Wang–Koo summit took place in Singapore: the first public meeting between figures of non-governmental organization (NGO) since 1949.
  • 1993月27日-29日,中华民国海峡交流基金会董事长辜振甫,与中华人民共和国海峡两岸关系协会会长汪道涵于新加坡举行会谈。
  • 1993月19日,深圳致丽玩具厂火灾,导致87人死亡,51人受傷,是深圳市建立以来死亡人数最多的火灾。
  • 1993月23日,西北航空2119号班机空难造成55人死亡。
  • 1993月27日,青海沟后水库溃坝,造成300余人死亡。
  • 1993月起,北京生物制品研究所、深圳康泰生物制品的重组酵母乙肝疫苗车间逐渐投产,成功生产出第一批“基因工程”乙肝疫苗,新生儿开始接种。该技术于1989年由美国默沙东公司转让给中方,收取700万美元作为培训中方人员和支付美方参与者劳务的成本,此外不再收取专利费和利润。
  • January — Japanese asset price bubble has been popped, ending the Japanese economic miracle and triggering the prolonged period of economic decline known as the "Lost Decades".
  • 1989SOS incident
  • 1989December — During Japanese asset price bubble, Tokyo Stock Market index, Nikkei 225, hits its peak at 38,957 before closing at 38,916 for the day.
  • 1989January — Emperor Hirohito dies of cancer at the age of 87.
  • 1989January — After Hirohito's death from cancer, his posthumous name is Emperor Shōwa. He was the both longest-lived and longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor, as well as the longest-reigning monarch in the world at that time of his death. Crown Prince Akihito succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne upon the death of his father becoming the emperor of Japan. This marked the start of the Heisei period.
  • 1990니가타 소녀 감금 사건
  • 1992이치카와 일가 살인 사건
  • 19931993 Okushiri earthquake
  • 19931993 Kushiro earthquake
  • 1993노토반도 해역 지진
  • 19931993 Kagoshima flood
  • 1993July — In the wake of Japanese economic crisis, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is defeated in the general elections for the first time since 1955, and the coalition of opposition parties headed by Morihiro Hosokawa takes power.
  • 1993July — 1993 Okushiri earthquake kills 230 people, but no injuries.
  • Cold War
  • Gulf War
  • The World Wide Web first debuts as an Internet service.
  • Boston Chinatown massacre
  • 1989The animated television sitcom The Simpsons debuts on Fox.
  • 1989President Bush and Soviet Premier Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end. Symbolic elsewhere around the world was the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany.
  • 19891989 Loma Prieta earthquake
  • 1989The tanker Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound, dumping 10.8 million US gallons of oil into pristine wildlife habitat.
  • 1989Time Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner.
  • 1989Hurricane Hugo strikes the Caribbean and U.S. Southeast Coast, causing $7 billion in damage.
  • 1989Phillips disaster of 1989
  • 1989Awareness of stalking is raised with the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer by an obsessed fan.
  • 1989President Bush declares a "War on Drugs."
  • 1992Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 hurricane, kills 65 people and causes $26 billion in damage to Florida and other areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast, and will be the costliest natural disaster until Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
  • 1992Hurricane Iniki is the strongest hurricane ever to hit Hawaii.
  • 1992Los Angeles riots result in over 60 deaths and $1 billion in damage, spurred by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King.
  • 1992U.S. presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton elected president; Al Gore elected vice president.
  • 1992January 20, 1993 — Clinton becomes the 42nd president; Gore becomes the 45th vice president.
  • 1993Waco siege
  • 1993President Clinton signs 'Don't ask, don't tell' into law which prohibits gay or bisexual people from serving openly in the military.
  • 1993Branch Davidians standoff and fire near Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 81 people including their leader, David Koresh.
  • 1993Yinhe incident
  • 1993Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
  • 1993Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak
  • 19931993 Scotts Mills earthquake
  • 1993A truck bomb explodes in the parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring over a thousand.
  • 1993Massive flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers kill 50 people and devastate the Midwest with $15–$20 billion in damage.
  • 1993The "Storm of the Century" strikes the Eastern Seaboard, with blizzard conditions and severe weather, killing 300 people and causing $6 billion in damage.