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03.1990 AL The Silent Revolution in Albania is given a voice: during a football match between home team Kavaje and Partizani Tirana, fans start chanting "democracy, democracy !" and "down with the Hoxha family." Hoxha writings are publicly burnt. 4 die in the ensuing battle with security forces.
YU Macedonian and Croatian Leagues of Communists change their name to the Party of Democratic Change.
01.03.1990 DDR Establishment of the Treuhandanstalt - first Trusteeship Law in DDR.
02.03.1990
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06.03.1990 DDR Separation of central and commercial banking functions in the DDR. Private banking is permitted.
07.03.1990 DDR Volkskammer passes a new Trades Union Law, Local Electoral Law, Social Charter and Law on the Foundation and Activities of Private Firms. 
Small businesses taken over since 1972 in the DDR are restituted.
08.03.1990 DDR Final pre-election sitting of the Volkskammer, which passes an electoral law for 18.04. 
Opinion polls in the DDR show support for the main parties as PDS 18%, SPD 37% and CDU 34%.
YU, 
SLO		 The Republic of Slovenia drops "Socialist" from its title.
09.03.1990
10.03.1990 HU Hungary agrees on the withdrawal timetable of Red Army troops with the USSR.
11.03.1990
12.03.1990 DDR Final session of the DDR Round Table in East Berlin. Participants issue a draft constitution for a future federal state.
13.03.1990
14.03.1990
15.03.1990 DDR Opinion polls in the DDR show support for the main parties as PDS 18%, SPD 27% and CDU 45%.
16.03.1990
17.03.1990
18.03.1990 DDR First free Volkskammer elections in the DDR, with a strong 93.4% turnout. 
Electorate    12 426 443 
Turnout         11 604 418 
Valid ballot   11 541 155 
Party Per cent of ballot Number of Seats
CDU 40.82%  163
DSU   6.31%   25
Demokratischer Aufbruch   0.92%     4
Allianz für Deutschland 48.05% 192
Liberal List (DFP-LDP-FDP)   5.28%   21
SPD 21.88%   88
Unabhängige SPD   0.03%     -
PDS 16.40%    66
Demokr. Bauernpartei DBD    2.18%     9
Vereinigte Linken (die Nelken)    0.18%     1
KPD   0.08%     -
Alternative Jugendliste (DJP-GJ-MJV-FDJ)    0.13%     -
BSA Bund Sozialister Arbeitnehmer (4. Internationale)    0.003%     -
Vereinigung der Arbeiterkreise für 
Arbeitnehmerpolitik und Demokratie 		   0.003%     -
Other left parties 19.01%   76
Bündnis '90 (Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt, Initiative für Frieden und Menschenrechte)   2.91%   12
Grüne Partei / Unabhängige 
Frauenverband 		   1.97%     8
Demokr. Frauenbund DFD   0.33%     1
NDPD   0.38%     2
Christliche Liga   0.09%     -
Europa Partei (EFP)   0.03%     -
Unabhängige Volkspartei    0.03%     -
Einheit Jetzt   0.02%     -
Deutscher Biertrinker Union   0.02%     -
 
RO Ethnic violence flares in Tirgu Mures, leading to army intervention. It continues until 22.03.
19.03.1990 DDR SPD turns down a grand coalition after electoral humiliation. CDU wins 13 of the 15 regions, polling a third place 18.5% in East Berlin and coming second in Brandenburg. 
20.03.1990
21.03.1990
22.03.1990 DDR Werner Fischer, government representative, reports "serious indications" that 40 newly elected parliamentarians - including CDU chairman Lothar de Maziere - have co-operated with the Stasi.
23.03.1990 CS ÈSSR and EC initial a trade and co-operation agreement, widening the scope of the 1988 accord to include know-how transfer.
24.03.1990
25.03.1990 HU First free parliamentary elections in Hungary since 1947.
26.03.1990
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28.03.1990
29.03.1990 CS The ÈSSR becomes the ÈSFR. The Federal Assembly approves the state's name change to the Czechoslovak Federal Republic
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