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| 1988 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma from England, to look after her dying mother | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Students, teachers and workers gather in large numbers in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to demand democratic reform | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Uruguay enjoys the first entirely free election since the years of military dictatorship | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Elections in Poland bring Solidarnośc nation-wide success, and the party is soon at the head of a coalition government | |
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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 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek is Speaker of Parliament and Václav Havel is President in the new democratic government of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Sandinistas lose the Nicaraguan presidential election, with Daniel Ortega beaten into second place by Violeta Chamorro | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The aged president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, wins the Ivory Coast's first democratic elections | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins an overwhelming victory in Burma's general election but the military refuse to hand over power | |
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| c. 1990 |
| | | Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi transforms Inkatha into a political party, the Inkatha Freedom Party | |
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