Dissolution of Czechoslovakia |Part of a series on the| |History
of Czechoslovakia| The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took
effect on 1 January 1993, was an event that saw the self-
determined separation of the federal state of Czechoslovakia.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia, entities which had arisen in
1969 within the framework of Czechoslovak federalisation, became
immediate subjects of international law in 1993. It is sometimes
known as the Velvet Divorce, a reference to the bloodless Velvet
Revolution of 1989 that led to the end of the rule of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the formation of a
democratic government. Czechoslovakia was created with the
dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. In
1917, a meeting took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where
the future Czechoslovak president Tomáš Masaryk and other Czech
and Slovak representatives signed the Pittsburgh Agreement which
promised a common state consisting of two equal nations,
Slovakia and Czechia. Soon after, t