Martial law in Poland
1981–1983 · Event
General Jaruzelski declares martial law to crush Solidarity; thousands interned; Solidarity goes underground.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
Around 1981
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)