1980s

In the world

• Recession ( ). Deindustrialization (" Rusty Belt "). Premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990).
• Cold war
  • The escalation of the arms race (1981; Doomsday Clock ).
  • Ronald Reagan declared the USSR " Empire of Evil " (1983). Strategic Defense Initiative (1983; Star Wars program).
  • Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (1988).
• Reform and opening up in China ( Deng Xiaoping ). Events in Tiananmen Square (1989) .
• Civil wars in Ethiopia (1974-1991) , Angola (1975-2002) and Sudan (1983-2005) . Famine in Ethiopia (1983-1985) . The War in Western Sahara (1975-1991). The War of Independence of Namibia (1966-1989). Operation Eldorado Canyon in Libya (1986).
• The Civil War in Lebanon (1975-1990). Lebanon War (1982) . Explosions of the barracks of peacekeepers in Beirut (1983) . First Palestinian Intifada (1987; Gaza Strip ).
• Islamic uprising in Syria (1976-1982). Storming the Hama (1982) .
• The Afghan War (1979-1989; Operation Cyclone ).
• The civil war in El Salvador (1979-1992), the massacre in El Mosot (1981). The armed conflict in Peru began (1980). The Civil War in Nicaragua (1981-1990). Falkland War (1982). U.S. Invasion of Grenada (1983).
• Coup d'etat in Turkey (1980) .
• Iran-Iraq war ( 1980 - 1988 ). Operation Opera (1981). Iran-Contras (1986).
• The Second Mafia War (1981-1983).
• Greece (1981), Spain and Portugal (1986) entered the European Union , Greenland (1985) came out. European Industrialists Round Table (1983). Schengen Agreement ( 1985 ). Complete Independence of Australia from Great Britain (1986; ). The conflict in Northern Ireland, the attacks of the IRA .
• Fifth Republic of South Korea (1981-1987). Sixth Republic (since 1987).
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• The Assassination of Indira Gandhi (1984). The fall of the Marcos Ferdinand regime in the Philippines (1986; Yellow Revolution ).
• A sharp drop in oil prices (1986). Overproduction of oil in the 1980s . Black Monday (1987) .
• Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement (1988). ).
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (1989).
• The fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe (1989-1991). Trade Union Solidarity in Poland (1980). Austerity Policies CPP (1980s) . Revolution in Czechoslovakia , Romania , Hungary (1989). The fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).
• The Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer entered into force ( 1989 ). Intelligence agencies flooded Greenpeace's ship (1985; Rainbow Warrior ).

In the USSR

• The end of the " era of stagnation ." Konchina L.I. Brezhnev ( 1982 ).
• 1981 - Start of daylight saving time .
• Food Program ( 1982 ).
• Yuri Andropov , Secretary General (1983-1984).
• Konstantin Chernenko , Secretary General (1984-1985).
• Mikhail Gorbachev holds the post of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1985-1991).
• The anti-alcohol campaign in the USSR (1985-1988).
• Perestroika (1987-1991).
• The Karabakh conflict (1987-1991).
• 1987 - Matthias Rust landed on Red Square in Moscow

Disasters and natural disasters

• The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986).
• The eruption of the volcano St. Helens in the United States (1980).
• A gas pipeline explosion in Siberia (1982).
• Shot down South Korean (1983) and Iranian (1988) passenger aircraft.
• Bhopal disaster at a chemical plant in India (1984).
• The eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz (1985) .
• Mexico City Earthquake (1985).
• Plane crash near Tokyo (1985).
• The crash of the shuttle Challenger (1986).
• The catastrophe of the ferry Donja Paz (1987).
• Arzamas railway accident (1988).
• 1988 Yellowstone Fire
• Spitak earthquake in Armenia (1988).
• Loma Priet earthquake (1989).
• Oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez (1989).

• The first monochrome film ( 1980 ; Ilford Photo ).
• 1981 - The first flight of the American "stealth aircraft" Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk .
• 1981 - TGV high-speed trains began to run between Paris and Lyon.
• 1981 - the first 5 cases of a "rare form of pneumonia" (then called AIDS ) were registered in the USA;
• 1982 - the first teleconference between the USSR and the USA (Moscow - Los Angeles) took place.
• 1982 - for the first time a permanent artificial heart was transplanted to a patient
• 1983 - Motorola launched the world's first commercial portable cell phone .
• 1984 - DNA fingerprinting .
• 1984 - Energy-saving compact fluorescent lamp .
• 1985 - discovery of volumetric neural transmission ( USSR )
• 1985 - gas pipeline through the Norwegian trench ( Statoil ).
• 1986 - high-temperature superconductivity was discovered ( Switzerland )
• 1987 - discovery of reverberation in the brain [1] ( USSR )
• 1987 - construction of the Eurotunnel started
• 1989 - for the first time in the State Register of Discoveries of VNIIGPE, the discovery of the nature of oncological diseases ( USSR ) was registered

Information Technology

• IBM PC (1981). PC DOS (1981). Windows 1.0 (1985).
• Processors family Intel 80286 (1982), i386 (1985), i486 (1989).
• CD ( 1982 ; CD).
• ZX Spectrum (1982). BK (1985).
• ARPANET is changing the core protocol from NCP to TCP / IP , which led to the advent of the modern Internet ( 1983 ).
• GNU Project ( 1983 ). Free Software Foundation (1985).
• Macintosh (1984). Mac OS (1984; System 1 ).
• Fido Network ( 1984 ).
• Computer virus was first detected ( 1986 ).
• A patent was obtained for the first neural computer AC-79 , ( 1988 USSR )
• World Wide Web ( 1989 ; WWW).

Cosmos

• Space shuttles ( Space Shuttle program - 1981; Buran , single flight - 1988).
• 1982 - Svetlana Savitskaya - second female astronaut, Soyuz T-5 spacecraft, ( USSR ).
• 1982 - The first long-term space expedition of the Salyut-7 station, 106 days ( USSR ).
• 1985 - Japan began recruiting into its own cosmonaut corps .
• 1986 - launch of the first modules of the Mir orbital station ( USSR )
• 1987 - The first long-term expedition at the Mir station, 174 days ( USSR ).

• Information era .
• The spread of political correctness .
• Generation Y.
• Pocket games Nintendo Game & Watch (1980; " Electronics "). Tetris (1984).
• The population of China has exceeded 1 billion people ( 1982 ).
• Days of Chaos (1983).
• The third generation of gaming systems . NES (1983; Famicom). Sega Master System (1986).

Literature

• Iskander, Fazil Abdulovich (1929—2016)   . " Rabbits and boas " (1982).
• Rybakov, Anatoly Naumovich (1911-1998)   . "Children of the Arbat" (1987).

•   Kir Bulychev
•   Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko
•   Valentin Mitrofanovich Sidorov
•   Strugatsky brothers Arkady and Boris Natanovich
•    Joseph Brodsky
•   Salman Rushdie
•   Umberto Eco

Music

• The rise of genres is the new wave and synthpop ;
• The heyday of the heavy metal era, the emergence of the main (classical) areas of metal music, such as thrash metal , power metal , black metal , death metal ;
• The Golden Era of Russian rock comes due to the softening of censorship. The Cinema , Aria , DDT , Bravo , Nautilus Pompilius , Alice and others groups appear and gain all-Union fame. The already existing " Aquarium " and " Time Machine " for the first time officially release their albums.
• 1981 - Leningrad Rock Club opened;
• 1981 - the beginning of broadcasting MTV ;
• 1982 - 1985 - the heyday of the electro genre;
• 1983 - the beginning of the popularity of Italo-disco , from next year - Eurodisco ;
• 1985 - Live Aid festival was held;
• 1986 - the appearance of visual kei in Japan.
• 1986 - 1990s - The Golden Era of Hip Hop .
• since the mid-1980s, the emergence of styles such as house and techno.

•   Yuriy Shatunov

Cinema

• The end of the New Hollywood era, when single-film directors dictated fashion in the movies. Continuation of the era of blockbusters and the beginning of the dictatorship of producers and large studios.
• The advent of computer graphics in the cinema on an ongoing basis in films such as " Tron ."

• In the 80s of the XX century, a whole series of films were shot, which later became cult and for the whole 10th identified plot canons of many genres - in particular, action films, science fiction, fantastic and mystical horrors. Almost every such film was subsequently shot remakes, prequels and sequels. These films had a tremendous impact on the culture of the 80s, which can be traced in music - many heavy metal and death metal bands were inspired by the ideas and images that these films carried: for example, in 1985 under the influence of the Terminator, Accept recorded the album Metal Heart , in 1987, under the influence of horror films "City of the Living Dead" and "Return of the Living Dead", Death recorded the album Scream Bloody Gore . Also, the cinema of the 80s had a fundamental impact on the aesthetics of the musical synthwave scene that arose in the 21st century.

Sci-fi and sci-fi horror:

• 1982, The Throne

• 1982, " Something "

• 1982, Blade Runner

• 1984, The Terminator

• 1985, The Return of the Living Dead

• 1987, " Predator "

• 1987, Robocop

• 1989, Batman

Mystical Horror Films:

• 1980, City of the Living Dead

• 1984, “ A Nightmare on Elm Street ”

• 1985, The Phenomenon

• 1987, The Lost Guys

• 1988, The Night of the Demons

Sport

• 1980 - Olympics in Moscow . Boycott of the Olympics .
• 1980 - Lake Placid Olympics (Winter)
• 1984 - Olympic Games in Los Angeles . The USSR announced a boycott of the Olympics.
• 1984 - Olympic Games in Sarajevo (winter)
• 1988 - Olympics in Seoul
• 1988 - Olympics in Calgary (winter)