First Chechen War
Russia's army storms Grozny but withdraws from Chechnya in 1996
In December 1994 Russian troops entered Chechnya, which had declared independence under Dzhokhar Dudayev; the New Year assault on Grozny brought huge losses and destroyed the city. An estimated 30,000–100,000 died, mostly civilians. The 1996 Khasavyurt Accord withdrew the troops and deferred the question of Chechnya's status.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 14 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 13 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 3 years later
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 14 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 5 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 5 years earlier
- 1990 German reunification — 4 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 3 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 2 years earlier
Middle East
- 1989 9 April tragedy in Tbilisi — 5 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 4 years earlier
- 1990 Black January in Baku — 4 years earlier
- 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia — 2 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 1 year earlier
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 20 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 11 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — same year
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 4 years later
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 17 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 19 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 3 years earlier
- 1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War — 2 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 10 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 17 years later
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 25 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 24 years earlier
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 11 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 4 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 7 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 76)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 64)
- Mother Teresa (aged 84)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 83)
- Richard Nixon (aged 81)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 75)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 70)
- Fidel Castro (aged 68)
- Elizabeth II (aged 68)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 67)