Adoption of the Constitution of Russia
A national vote establishes a presidential republic
After the constitutional crisis of September–October 1993, which ended with the shelling of the Supreme Soviet building, a new constitution was adopted by referendum on 12 December. It established a presidential republic.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 13 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 15 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 4 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 4 years earlier
- 1990 German reunification — 3 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 2 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 1 year earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 14 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 13 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 3 years earlier
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 19 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 10 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 1 year later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 18 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 4 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 2 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 11 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 18 years later
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 24 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 23 years earlier
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 10 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 3 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 75)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 63)
- Mother Teresa (aged 83)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 82)
- Richard Nixon (aged 80)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 74)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 69)
- Fidel Castro (aged 67)
- Elizabeth II (aged 67)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 66)