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Friday, July 23, 2021

Basic timeline of Finland

This post is a basic timeline of Finland. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Kunda culture (8000 - 5000 BC)
• Comb Ceramic culture (4200 - 2000 BC)
• Kiukainen culture (2400 - 1300 BC)
• Roman period (1 - 400 AD)
• Merovingian dynasty (5th century - 751 AD)
• Northern Crusades (13th century)
• Sweden occupies Finland (13th century - 1809)
• Kalmar Union (1397-1537)
• Great Northern War (1700-1721)
• Russo-Swedish War (1741-1743)
• Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790)
• Finnish War (1808-1809)
• Russian Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917)
• Swedish famine (1866-1869)
• Finland gains independence (1917)
• Finland kingdom (1918-1919)
• Finnish Civil War (1918)
• Repbulic of Finland (1919 - now)
• Mantsala rebellion (1932)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Continuation War (1941-1944)
• Finland joins the European Union (1995)

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