User:Srguan/1991 in Georgia (country)

Incumbents

 * President: Zviad Gamsakhurdia
 * Prime Minister:
 * Tengiz Sigua (Until 18 August)
 * Besarion Gugushvili (Since 26 August)
 * Chairperson of the Parliament:
 * Akaki Asatiani

January

 * January 4 – Adjara passes a new electoral law in preparation for the first multi-party election in the autonomous republic.
 * January 5 – South Ossetia war: Around 3,000 Georgian MVD troops enter Tskhinvali to enforce the state of emergency enacted following a terrorist act against Georgian policemen, a fighting breaks out with the separatist militias.
 * January 7 – South Ossetia war: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev orders Georgian MVD units to withdraw from South Ossetia and abolishes South Ossetian proclamation of independence.
 * January 9 – South Ossetia war: The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia holds an extraordinary session and denounces Gorbachev's decree as interference into Georgia's internal affairs.
 * January 16 – Georgian Foreign Minister Gogi Khoshtaria tells the journalists that Georgia will resist the Soviet efforts to round-up draft evaders in the Soviet Armed Forces, establish its own national army and refuse to comply with Gorbachev's decree to withdraw troops from South Ossetia.
 * January 25 – South Ossetia war: A ceasefire is negotiated between South Ossetian militias and Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Georgian MVD troops withdraw to the hills of Tskhinvali, while Soviet troops patrol the city.
 * January 29 – Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia approves the creation of the National Guard of Georgia.
 * January 30:
 * South Ossetia war: Georgian MVD fully withdraw to the hills of Tskhinvali.
 * South Ossetian separatist leader Torez Kulumbegov is arrested in Tbilisi.
 * January 31 – Soviet troops are attacked by the armed militia while trying to remove a roadblock in South Ossetia.

February

 * February 3 – South Ossetia war: A power blockade is placed on South Ossetia.
 * February 12 – South Ossetia war: Georgian power workers state that they will end the power blockade if the two factories in South Ossetia will be opened for a joint commission from the Soviet and Georgian governments to inspect whether or not illegal weapons are manufactured there for the war, also demanding South Ossetian militias to disarm and end reprisals on Georgian families.
 * February 17 – South Ossetia war: Presidium of the Federation Council of Independent Trade Unions of the RSFSR allocates 150,000 rubles to South Ossetia
 * February 23 – South Ossetia war: A shooting in Tskhinvali results in 7 deaths.
 * February 24 – South Ossetia war: Village of Avnevi is attacked, resulting in 4 deaths.
 * February 26:
 * One policeman is killed and two others injured as a result of an attack on a police station in the village of Avnevi.
 * Georgian Supreme Council spokesman Kudzha Rhundadze tells Reuters that the electricity is being restored to South Ossetia.
 * February 27:
 * South Ossetia war: One Lithuanian and one Latvian soldier from Soviet units desert to Georgia, protesting against Soviet involvement in South Ossetia.
 * Georgia appeals to the United Nations to investigate an unrest in South Ossetia.

March

 * March 1:
 * A severe gunfire is reported between Soviet and Georgian troops in South Ossetia, several Georgians are wounded.
 * TASS reports on Ossetian attack on Georgian MVD headquarters and Soviet units in Tskhinvali. One policeman is wounded.
 * March 6 – South Ossetia war: Georgian Supreme Council issues a statement of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, offering South Ossetia a cultural autonomy, local elections and a local police force in exchange for disarming the illegal armed groups and re-establishing legal authorities in the region.
 * March 8 – South Ossetia war: A battle in the village of Monastyron leaves three people dead and several wounded, a gunfire is also reported in Tskhinvali.
 * March 20:
 * The Georgian Supreme Council session begins with a minute of silence for the victims of South Ossetia conflict.
 * Georgian Supreme Council abolishes the death penalty for some crimes, including counterfeiting, bribery, and theft of public property, becoming the first Soviet republics to take such step.
 * March 23 – South Ossetia war: Chairman of Supreme Soviet of RSFSR Boris Yeltsin meets with Chairman of Georgain Supreme Council Zviad Gamsakhurdia in Kazbegi and signs an agreement on joint Russian-Georgian peacekeeping force to patrol the area instead of Soviet troops, recognizing South Ossetia as a part of Georgia. The two leaders also agree on an accord to be signed between Georgia and Russian SFSR in the beginning of April. The agreement leads to condemnation from South Ossetian separatists.
 * March 24 – South Ossetia war: Supreme Soviet of RSFSR refuses to ratify Yeltsin's agreement, saying that RSFSR has no mandate to place its troops outside of Russian territory.
 * March 31 – Georgian holds an independence referendum.

April

 * April 2 — South Ossetia war: Georgian troops try to take over Tskhinvali, but are repelled by South Ossetian separatist militias.
 * April 9 — Georgian declares an independence from the Soviet Union.
 * April 23 — South Ossetia war: Zviad Gamsakhurdia proposes a referendum in South Ossetia on the autonomous status of the region within Georgia.