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| 1991 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fight for democracy in Burma | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Armenia delcares its independence from the USSR, 70 years after it was annexed | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The US spacecraft Galileo provides scientists with close-up photographs of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Multiparty elections in Zambia result in a massive defeat for the long-serving president, Kenneth Kaunda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Soviet region of Chechnya proclaims its independence from the USSR, calling itself the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Gong Li plays a concubine of a Chinese warlord in Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A new party, the Islamic Salvation Front, seems certain to win the Algerian election – until the army intervenes | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Three Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) declare independence, leading to the formal disbanding of the USSR | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Paul Keating becomes prime minister of Australia after a Labor party leadership contest against Bob Hawke | |
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