Velvet and After · event 3 of 6

29 December 1989

Havel is elected president. A playwright who had been in prison earlier the same year is elected head of state by the federal assembly. Nobody was killed in the whole sequence, which is why it is called the Velvet Revolution.

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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