1989: The Year of Revolutions – A Look Back 20 Years On
A dated list of the events of 1989 in central and eastern Europe, published by the European Parliament twenty years later. It is cited in this wiki only for the order of events and for its entry on the protests at Timișoara.
The chronology was written for the twentieth anniversary of 1989. Its entries include the Leipzig demonstration of 9 October, the resignation of Erich Honecker on 18 October, the breach of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, and the outbreak of protests at Timișoara in Romania on 16 December, which it describes as a response to the government’s attempt to evict the dissident pastor László Tőkés, by then a member of the parliament.
It is a summary made long afterwards by a press office, not a primary document, and the wiki uses it only because no document of December 1989 on the Timișoara events was found on an open institutional site. Tőkés was a member of the parliament that published it.
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- 9 October 1989, firm date