Maastricht Treaty
Twelve states create the EU and set a path to the euro
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Twelve member states of the European Communities signed the treaty creating the European Union. It introduced EU citizenship and a common foreign policy and set the path to a single currency, the euro.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 12 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 12 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 7 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 6 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 3 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 1 year earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 13 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 12 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 25 years earlier
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — 25 years earlier
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 18 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 9 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 2 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 17 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 3 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 1 year earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 12 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 19 years later
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 23 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 22 years earlier
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 9 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 2 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 9 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — same year
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 74)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 62)
- Mother Teresa (aged 82)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 81)
- Richard Nixon (aged 79)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 73)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 68)
- Fidel Castro (aged 66)
- Elizabeth II (aged 66)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 65)