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1990

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1990 by topic:
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1990 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1990
MCMXC
Ab urbe condita 2743
Armenian calendar 1439
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԹ
Assyrian calendar 6740
Bahá'í calendar 146–147
Bengali calendar 1397
Berber calendar 2940
British Regnal year 38 Eliz. 2 – 39 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2534
Burmese calendar 1352
Byzantine calendar 7498–7499
Chinese calendar 己巳(Earth Snake)
4686 or 4626
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4687 or 4627
Coptic calendar 1706–1707
Discordian calendar 3156
Ethiopian calendar 1982–1983
Hebrew calendar 5750–5751
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2046–2047
 - Shaka Samvat 1911–1912
 - Kali Yuga 5090–5091
Holocene calendar 11990
Igbo calendar 990–991
Iranian calendar 1368–1369
Islamic calendar 1410–1411
Japanese calendar Heisei 2
(平成2年)
Javanese calendar 1922–1923
Juche calendar 79
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4323
Minguo calendar ROC 79
民國79年
Nanakshahi calendar 522
Thai solar calendar 2533
Unix time 631152000 – 662687999

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait resulting in a crisis in the Persian Gulf involving the issue of the sovereignty of Kuwait and fears by Saudi Arabia over Iraqi aggression against their oil fields near Kuwait, this resulted in Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years.


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