January

GDR: Luxemburg demo; regime crackdown on IFM.

Ukraine: Tovarystvo Leva inaugurates vertepy.

February

Poland: Price hikes; “Carnival” demo.

March

Czechoslovakia: Candlelight demo, Bratislava.

Hungary: March 15 demo draws 10K. Halozat forms. FIDESZ forms.

April

Poland: Nowa Huta strike.

Czechoslovakia: Independent Peace Association forms.

Ukraine: Petition on Ukrainian language circulates.

East/West: Peace agreement signed on Afghan war.

May

Poland: Gdansk shipyard strike.

Czechoslovakia: Czech children forms.

Hungary: Janos Kadar removed as party chief.

Slovenia: First arrests of Mladina editors.

June

Poland: 2nd Children’s Day happening, Wroclaw.

Czechoslovakia: Abortive East-West seminar, Prague.

Slovenia: “Slovene Spring”. Committee for Defense of Human Rights forms.

Ukraine: “Ten Days that Shook Lviv” demos.  1st Dnister expedition.

East/West: 19th Party Conference opens in Moscow.

July

Slovenia: Mladina trials.

August

Poland: Strikes in Jastrzebie, Gdansk, Stalowa Wola.

Czechoslovakia: Demo marks 20th anniversary of Soviet invasion.

September

Hungary: Danube Dam demo.

Slovenia: Mladina Four lose appeal in Belgrade.

October

Poland: Autumn: negotiations between Solidarity and regime on terms of Round Table.

Czechoslovakia: Independence Day demo.

Hungary: More Danube dam demos. October 23 demo commemorates 1956.

November

Poland: Walesa appears in live TV debate.

Hungary: FIDESZ Workers’ Group demo.

Slovenia: Calls for sovereignty emerge at Ljubljana demonstration.

December

Czechoslovakia: John Lennon Peace Club forms; Human Rights Day demo.

East/West: At UN, Gorbachev promises troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe.

1989

January

Czechoslovakia: “Palachiada” demos.

GDR: Human rights demo, Leipzig.

Ukraine: Vertepy in Vilnius.

February

Poland: Round Table begins.

Hungary: 140K sign Danube petition. Party plenum renounces communists’ “leading role”, proposes multiparty system.

GDR: First Messedemo in solidarity with Kosovar Albanians.

Slovenia: Lubljana rally supporting Mladina Four.

March

Czechoslovakia: Prague Mothers forms.

Hungary: Huge March 15 demo. Opposition Round Table convenes.

GDR: Émigré groups disrupt Leipzig trade fair.

Ukraine: First issue of Postup appears.

April

Poland: Round Table concludes. Solidarity legalized.

Hungary: Demos at Nagymoros.

Ukraine: Elections to Congress of People’s Deputies begin.

May

Poland: Demos at Soviet Consulate, Krakow.

Czechoslovakia: Prague Mothers’ protest.

Hungary: Government announces moratorium on dam.

GDR: Local elections; Opposition protests fraud.

Slovenia: New arrests in Mladina case spark formal demand for sovereignty.

Ukraine: Inaugural congress of Rukh in Kyiv.

East/West: Baltic Republics declare sovereignty.

June

Poland: Solidarity claims victory in Parliamentary election.

Czechoslovakia: Green demos, Bratislava.

Hungary: Imre Nagy funeral. National Round Table (NRT) begins.

GDR: Street Music Festival, Leipzig.

Ukraine: 2nd Dnister expedition.

East/West: Tienanmen Square massacre.

July

Poland: General Jaruzelski elected President by Parliament.

Czechoslovakia: Korzo demos begin in Prague.

East/West: In Strasbourg, Gorbachev announces that each country can choose its own path to socialism.

August

Poland: Solidarity’s Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen to be prime minister.

Czechoslovakia: Demo commemorating 1968 Soviet invasion almost sparks revolution. Detention of Bratislava Five.

Hungary: Pan-European Picnic. FIDESZ members visit Prague.

GDR: First refugees exit bloc though Hungary.

Ukraine: Demos commemorate Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

September

Poland: Solidarity-led government takes power.

Czechoslovakia: STUHA (Student Movement) forms.

Hungary: NRT concludes.

GDR: Refugee crisis; Hungary lifts border restrictions. New Forum, other opposition groups established.

Ukraine: Demo for religious  freedom draws 150K in Lviv.

October

Czechoslovakia: Independence Day demo.

Hungary: Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party disbands.

GDR: Mikhail Gorbachev visit. Monday Messedemos reach critical mass.

Slovenia: Slovene Parliament amends constitution, asserts right of secession.

Ukraine: Police attack Lviv Day demo. General strike called.

November

Poland: Czech festival in Wroclaw.

Czechoslovakia: Teplice demo. Velvet Revolution. Communist government resigns.

GDR: Berlin Wall opened.

December

Czechoslovakia: Vaclav Havel chosen President.

GDR: Round Table opens. Helmut Kohl visits Dresden.

East/West: Romanian revolution ends with execution of Ceausescus.