1990
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 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 |
己巳年 (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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