Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Events and Trends
- Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology
- Development of GATT, the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions
- Cloning (of Dolly, the sheep) achieved
- Break up of the Soviet Union in 1992 -- the end of the Cold War, United States as sole world superpower
- Human Genome Project begun
- Global human impact on the environment widely accepted
- Balkan war in former Yugoslavia
- Gulf War and embargo
- After 1992, booming stock market
- Impeachment of Bill Clinton
- Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K)
- Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
- North Yemen and South Yemen merge as Yemen