Velvet and After · event 4 of 6

1 January 1993

The Velvet Divorce. Czechoslovakia separates into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, peacefully and by parliamentary agreement, without a referendum and with polls suggesting most people in both countries would have preferred to stay together.

The Velvet and After era

  1. 17 November 1989
  2. 25 November 1989
  3. 29 December 1989
  4. 1 January 1993
  5. 13 August 2002
  6. 1 May 2004

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