Pan-European Picnic

When

19 Aug 1989

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

47.76° N, 16.62° E

Description

peace demonstration on the Austrian-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary on 19 Aug. 1989

1989 peace demonstration held on the Austro-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary

The Pan-European Picnic was a peace demonstration held on the Austro-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary, on 19 August 1989. The opening of the border gate between Austria and Hungary at the Pan-European Picnic was an event in the chain reaction, at the end of which Germany reunified, the Iron Curtain fell apart, and the Eastern Bloc disintegrated.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration, is held at the Austro-Hungarian border”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “„Paneuropäisches Picknick“ an der ungarischen Grenze zu Österreich bei Sopron, kurzzeitig wird ein Grenztor geöffnet, dabei können zirka 700 DDR-Bürger fliehen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “piquenique paneuropéen ; 600 Allemands de l’Est passent la frontière entre la Hongrie et l’Autriche”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Европейский пикник: в рамках разрядки отношений на несколько часов была открыта граница между Австрией и Венгрией”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Austria y Hungría, el Pícnic Paneuropeo tiene lugar sobre la frontera entre los dos países”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ハンガリーで汎ヨーロッパ・ピクニックが開催、約600人の東ドイツ市民がオーストリア経由で西ドイツへ亡命。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page