| Medieval Estonian History |
| 1200-1300 |
The castle at Narva was built by the Danes.
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| 1219 |
Danes occupied North Estonia.
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| 1227 |
After German raid, the Germans begin to have great influence over the region.
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| 1270 |
The Karusa Ice War between Estonia and Lithuania started.
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| 1300-1400 |
The town hall of Tallinn was founded.
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| 1346 |
The Danes gave Estonia to the Germans. |
| 1400 |
Estonian city Tallinn's population was 4,000 people.
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| 1523 |
Reformation was made to make Estonian official language.
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| 1525 |
The first Estonian book appeared.
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| 1561 |
Estonia was conquered by the Swedish.
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| 20th Century |
| 1901 |
Louis Kahn, Estonian architect was born. He was a designer of the capital building in Bangladesh among other things.
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| 1918 |
Estonia, together with Latvia and Lithuania, adopted the Gregorian calendar.
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| 1918 February 24 |
Estonia gained its independence.
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| 1920 |
Estonian Constitution was adopted.
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| 1925 |
The Cultural Autonomy act was passed allowing Germans, Jews, Russians and Swedes to complete their secondary education in their own language.
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| 1938 |
Konstantin Pats was the new Estonian President.
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| 1939 |
The Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty was signed allowing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland. Estonia was signed to become Soviet property.
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| 1940 |
The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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| 1941 |
The Estonians started armed resistance to the occupation.
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| 1942 |
A labour camp was founded at Jagala, Estonia. Around 3,000 Jews worked there and were shot by the next year.
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| 1943 |
The first Estonian ballet, 'The Goblin', was performed in Estonia, its author was Eduard Tubin.
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| 1944 |
The State Academic Male Chorus was founded by Gustav Ernesaks, the father of Estonian choral music.
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| 1946 |
After the World War II the region of Narva was turned into an industrial park where thousands of immigrants worked in the metal factories and the nuclear power plant.
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| 1949 |
20,000 Estonians were sent to work and die in Siberia during Stalin's regime.
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| 1991 |
Latvia and Estonia voted to become independent countries, not a part of the USSR.
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| 1991 September 6 |
The Baltic countries were given their independence and were immediately admitted in the UN.
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| 1992 |
Estonia started to mint its own legal tender, the kroon.
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| 1994 |
Russia officially ended its military presence in the country.
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| 1994 |
Estonia was the first European country that induced the flat tax on personal and corporate income.
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| 1995 |
The British Prince Edward was invited to wear the Estonian crown.
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| 1998 |
Although they did not enter NATO, Estonia and the other Baltic countries signed an agreement pact with NATO.
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| History of Estonian Present Day |
| 2000 |
Estonia planned a system for oil transporting from Asia, in order to replace the declining oil shipment from Russia. |
| 2000 |
The government made a decision to go paperless and do its business online, with only the use of computers.
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| 2002 |
Eurovision song contest was held in Tallinn, Estonia.
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| 2002 |
Estonia joins the wave of newly approved countries to join NATO.
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| 2003 |
Estonia was said to be the number two country in Internet banking and third in e-government.
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| 2004 |
Estonia officially becomes a member of NATO. |
| 2004 May 1 |
Estonia joins the European Union.
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