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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1990 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1990
MCMXC
Ab urbe condita2743
Armenian calendar1439
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԹ
Assyrian calendar6740
Baháʼí calendar146–147
Balinese saka calendar1911–1912
Bengali calendar1397
Berber calendar2940
British Regnal year38 Eliz. 2 – 39 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2534
Burmese calendar1352
Byzantine calendar7498–7499
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4687 or 4480
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4688 or 4481
Coptic calendar1706–1707
Discordian calendar3156
Ethiopian calendar1982–1983
Hebrew calendar5750–5751
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2046–2047
 - Shaka Samvat1911–1912
 - Kali Yuga5090–5091
Holocene calendar11990
Igbo calendar990–991
Iranian calendar1368–1369
Islamic calendar1410–1411
Japanese calendarHeisei 2
(平成2年)
Javanese calendar1922–1923
Juche calendar79
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4323
Minguo calendarROC 79
民國79年
Nanakshahi calendar522
Thai solar calendar2533
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
2116 or 1735 or 963
    — to —
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
2117 or 1736 or 964
Unix time631152000 – 662687999

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1990th year of Anno Domini; the 990th year of the 2nd millennium; the 90th year of the 20th century; and the 1st year of the 1990s.

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, Desert Shield, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Baltic States declaring independence from the Soviet Union.

Events

January

January 7: The Pisa tower closed.
January 29: Trial relating to Exxon Valdez.

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

Gulf War Begins

September

October

November

Margaret Thatcher, the UK's only female Prime Minister, resigns after 11 years.
Margaret Thatcher, the UK's only female Prime Minister, resigns after 11 years.

December

World population

World population
1990 1985 1995
World 5,263,593,000 4,830,979,000 432,614,000 +8.95 % 5,674,380,000 410,787,000 +7.80 %
Africa 622,443,000 541,718,000 80,629,000 +14.88 % 707,462,000 85,019,000 +13.66 %
Asia 3,167,807,000 2,887,552,000 280,255,000 +9.71 % 3,430,052,000 262,245,000 +8.28 %
Europe 721,582,000 706,009,000 15,573,000 +2.21 % 727,405,000 5,823,000 +0.81 %
Latin America 441,525,000 401,469,000 40,056,000 +9.98 % 481,099,000 39,574,000 +8.96 %
North America 283,549,000 269,456,000 14,093,000 +5.23 % 299,438,000 15,889,000 +5.60 %
Oceania 26,687,000 24,678,000 2,009,000 +8.14 % 28,924,000 2,237,000 +8.38 %

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

Jennifer Lawrence

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

Pavel Cherenkov
Roman Vishniac
Ava Gardner

February

Sandro Pertini

March

Gary Merrill

April

Greta Garbo

May

Jim Henson

June

Rex Harrison

July

Pearl Bailey

August

September

Xu Xiangqian

October

Leonard Bernstein

November

Robert Hofstadter

December

Tunku Abdul Rahman
Joan Bennett

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medal

Right Livelihood Award

References

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