1990s

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

Table of contents

1 Events and Trends
2 World Leaders
3 Entertainers
4 Sports figures
5 Music

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 1991 -- 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
Bill Clinton's sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky and his Impeachment trial
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
Assasination of Selena Quintanilla
O.J's trial, called by many the trial of the century
You go, girl! becomes a popular phrase as the media gives feminist movements a boost with The Spice Girls, the WNBA, women's boxing, Sex and the City and others showcasing feminine talent.
The Vieques controversy

World Leaders

Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia)
Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia)
Prime Minister John Howard (Australia)
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada)
Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Canada)
Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
President Jiang Zemin (People's Republic of China)
President Lee Teng-hui (Republic of China on Taiwan)
President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
President Fran�ois Mitterrand (France)
President Jacques Chirac (France)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany)
Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der (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)
First Minister David Trimble (Northern Ireland)
President Yasser Arafat (Palestinian Authority)
Pope John Paul II
Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Republic of Ireland)
Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (Republic of Ireland)
Taoiseach John Bruton (Republic of Ireland)
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (Republic of Ireland)
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

Sports figures

Music

Ace of Base (The Sign)
Aerosmith (Get a Grip)
Alan Jackson (A Lot About Livin' (And a Little About Love))
Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill)
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)
The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
Spacemen 3 (Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to)
The Spice Girls (Spice World)
Stone Temple Pilots (Core)
Sunny Day Real Estate (How It Feels to Be Something On)
Tool (�nima)
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

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