Centuries: 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
- Reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990
- Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology
- Genocide in Rwanda kills one million people, in 1994.
- 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
- Peace process begins in Northern Ireland.
- Balkan war in former Yugoslavia
- Gulf War and embargo on Iraq
- After 1992 the booming of the stock market, which stretched into the dot-com boom/dot-com bubble
- Impeachment of Bill Clinton
- Grunge music
- Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K)
- Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
- End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela
- North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
- A decade of women presidents in the Republic of Ireland
- Divorce and scandal rocks the British Royal House of Windsor
World Leaders
- Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
- President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China)
- President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
- President François Mitterrand (France)
- President Jacques Chirac (France)
- Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany)
- Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (Germany)
- Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (India)
- President Mohammad Khatami (Iran)
- President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel)
- Emperor Akihito (Japan)
- President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority)
- Pope John Paul II
- President Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
- President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa)
- President Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
- Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister John Major (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Tony Blair (United Kingdom)
- President George H. W. Bush (United States)
- President Bill Clinton (United States)
Entertainers
- Sandra Bullock
- Tim Burton
- Bush
- Jim Carrey
- Phil Collins
- Kevin Costner
- Harrison Ford
- Mel Gibson
- Green Day
- Tom Hanks
- Helen Hunt
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Ashley Judd
- Nicole Kidman
- Demi Moore
- Shawn Mullins
- Mike Myers and Dana Carvey (Wayne's World)
- Jack Nicholson
- Nirvana
- The Offspring (Smash)
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Julia Roberts
- Meg Ryan
- Adam Sandler
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Mira Sorvino[?]
- Quentin Tarantino
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Uma Thurman
- Bruce Willis
Music
- Ace of Base[?] (The Sign[?])
- Aerosmith (Get a Grip[?])
- Alan Jackson (A Lot About Livin' (And a Little About Love)[?])
- Alice in Chains (Dirt)
- Anthrax (Persistence of Time)
- Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92[?])
- Ash (1977)
- Backstreet Boys (Backstreet's Back[?])
- Beck (Mellow Gold)
- Beenie Man (Blessed)
- Billy Ray Cyrus (Some Gave All[?])
- blink-182 (Enema of the State)
- Blur (Parklife)
- Boyzone[?] (Where We Belong[?])
- Buju Banton (Till Shiloh)
- Bush (Sixteen Stone)
- The Cardigans (First Band on the Moon[?])
- Celine Dion (Let's Talk About Love[?])
- Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera[?])
- Clint Black (The Hard Way[?])
- Cradle of Filth (Dusk & Her Embrace[?])
- D'Angelo (Brown Sugar[?])
- Da Brat (Funkdafied[?])
- Dixie Chicks (Wide Open Spaces[?])
- DMX (It's Dark and Hell Is Hot[?])
- Dr. Dre (The Chronic)
- Dr. Octagon (Dr. Octagonecologyst[?])
- Eminem (The Slim Shady LP)
- Emperor (In the Nightside Eclipse[?])
- Erykah Badu (Baduizm)
- Fugazi (Repeater)
- Garth Brooks (Ropin' the Wind[?])
- Get Up Kids (Something to Write Home About)
- Green Day (Dookie)
- Guru (Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1)
- GZA (Liquid Swords)
- Hootie and the Blowfish (Cracked Rear View[?])
- Kid Rock (Devil Without a Cause[?])
- Kris Kross[?] (Totally Krossed Out[?])
- Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
- Limp Bizkit (Significant Other[?])
- Lush (Split)
- Madonna (Ray of Light[?])
- Marilyn Manson (Antichrist Superstar[?])
- Mary J. Blige (What's the 411?)
- MC Hammer (Too Legit to Quit[?])
- My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
- Nas (Illmatic)
- Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral)
- Nirvana (Nevermind)
- NOFX (Punk in Drublic)
- Notorious B.I.G. (Life After Death)
- Oasis (Definitely Maybe)
- The Offspring (Smash)
- OutKast (Aquemini)
- Pantera (A Vulgar Display of Power)
- Paul Oakenfold (Global Underground: Oslo[?])
- Pearl Jam (Ten)
- Pennywise (Pennywise[?])
- The Prodigy (The Fat of the Land[?])
- Radiohead (OK Computer)
- Raekwon (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx)
- Rancid (And Out Come the Wolves)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
- Reverend Horton Heat[?] (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em[?])
- Ricky Martin (A Medio Vivir[?])
- Ride (Nowhere[?])
- Sepultura (Chaos A.D.)
- Shania Twain (Come on Over[?])
- Spacemen 3 (Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to[?])
- The Spice Girls (Spice World[?])
- Sunny Day Real Estate[?] (How It Feels to Be Something On[?])
- Tool (Ænima)
- A Tribe Called Quest (The Low End Theory)
- Tupac Shakur (2pacalaypse Now[?])
- Type O Negative[?] (Bloody Kisses[?])
- The Vandals (Quickening[?])
- Weezer (The Blue Album)
- White Zombie (La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1[?])
- Wilco (Being There)
- Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))
See also: 1990s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 1990s
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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