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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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| 1990 |
| | | East and West Germany are united in a new Federal Republic of Germany | |
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| 1994 |
| | | German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins his first world championship title in Formula One | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Nigerian forces expel Johnny Koroma from Freetown and reinstate Sierra Leone's elected civilian president, Ahmad Kabbah | |
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| 1998 |
| | | SPD leader Gerhard Schröder replaces Helmut Kohl as German chancellor, in a coalition with the Green party | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Buena Vista Social Club, a nostalgic documentary by Wim Wenders, triggers a cult for Cuban music | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Mao Zedong inspires German artist Anselm Kiefer's Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, replaces Gerhard Schröder and becomes Germany's first woman chancellor | |
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