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| 1989 |
| | | Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany since 1971, is forced to resign after massive popular demonstrations | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Citizens of East Berlin demolish the Berlin Wall, in what proves a symbolic end to the Cold War | |
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| 1989 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher introduces an extremely unpopluar poll tax, last used in the Middle Ages | |
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| 1989 |
| | | French ballerina Sylvie Guillem moves from Paris to join the Royal Ballet in London | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The Communist party relinquishes power without bloodshed in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution | |
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| 1989 |
| | | With the fall of Pinochet, Chile returns eagerly to democracy - electing a Christian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin, as president | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan gives 20-year-old Darcy Bussell the leading role in his new full-length ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas | |
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| 1989 |
| | | President Bush sends 24,000 US troops to occupy Panama City and seize Manuel Noriega | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife are captured and executed in a Romanian uprising | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek is Speaker of Parliament and Václav Havel is President in the new democratic government of Czechoslovakia | |
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