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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Basic timeline of Estonia

This post is a basic timeline of Estonia. There are 25 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Kunda culture (8500 - 5000 BC)
• Narva culture (5th millennium BC)
• Corded Ware culture (2900 - 2350 BC)
• Roman Iron Age (50 - 450 AD)
• Viking raids (11th century)
• State of the Teutonic Order (1226-1525)
• Livonian Crusade (13th century)
• Terra Mariana (1207-1561)
• Duchy of Estonia (1219-1346, 1559-1645)
• Livonian War (1558-1583)
• Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth occupies Lithuania (1582-1583)
• Swedish Empire occupies Estonia (1561-1710)
• Great North War (1700-1721)
• Russian Empire annexes Estonia (1710)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Germany occupies Estonia (1917-1918)
• Estonia declares independence (1918)
• Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Holocaust (1941-1945)
• Soviet Union annexes Estonia (1940)
• Germany occupies Estonia (1941-1944)
• Estonia regains independence (1991)
• Estonia joins the European Union (2004)
• Cyberattacks on Estonia (2007)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Estonia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Estonia.)