HISTORY OF FINLAND

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HISTORY OF FINLAND
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EARLY HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - Archaeological findings indicate that there
  was human settlement in Finland about 100,000
  years ago
• 98 A.D. Roman historian Tacitus writes folks
  called Fenni
• 1150s King Erik of Sweden and the Bishop Henrik
  lead a crusade to Finland
• 1323 The peace treaty of Pähkinäsaari (Nöteborg)
  is signed by Sweden and Novgorod. First Finnish
  students arrive at the Sorbonne but nobody comes
  to Finland

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HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - 1543 Bishop Mikael Agricola (student of Martin
  Luther) produces the first Finnish-language book
  and started a Lutherian reformation
• 1640 Queen Christina of Sweden establishes
  Finland's first university Åbo Akademi in Turku
• 1808-1809 Sweden is defeated by Russia in the
  Finnish War and loses Finland, which becomes an
  autonomous Grand Duchy. Finland retains its
  Lutheran religion and the old Swedish system of
  law and government.

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HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - 1906 Finland acquires its own national
  parliament, elected by equal and universal
  suffrage. That maked Finnish women the second in
  the world to be granted full national political
  rights.
• 1917 Finland declares itself independent on
  December 6. Russia's Bolshevik government
  recognise Finnish independence on December 31.

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HISTORY OF FINLAND
Outcome of the Battle of Tampere
At the end of January 1918, Government forces,
known as The Whites, led by General C. G. E.
Mannerheim, start to disarm Russian troops. At
the same time, left-wing forces known as The Red
Guards, inspired by the Bolshevik revolution,
seized power in southern Finland. Government
forces aided by German troops dispatched to
southern Finland. A German prince, Friedrich
Karl, was chosen to be king of Finland but
renounced the nomination within a month, without
setting foot in Finland. 40 000 people died
because of war. Read more at Wikipedia
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War
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HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - 1939 The Soviet Union and Germany sign the
  Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement. The secret protocol
  attached to the agreement states that Finland
  belongs to the Soviet sphere of interest.
• - 1939-40 The Red Army attacks Finland. In the
  Winter War (30.11. 1939 - 13.3. 1940) the Finnish
  defence forces, commanded by Marshal C.G.
  Mannerheim, though greatly outnumbered, fight
  alone against the Red army invaders for 105 days.

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HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - 1941-1944 In the Continuation War Finland
  aligns itself with Nazi Germany against the
  Soviet Union in order to regain the lost
  territory. Nazi ideology is mainly rejected in
  Finland except among Finnish SS troop, some war
  heroes like Lauri Törni and some intellectuals.
• - 1944-45 War in Lapland. In accordance with the
  peace terms agreed with Russia, Finland drives
  some 200,000 German soldiers out of Finnish
  Lapland.

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HISTORY OF FINLAND

• - 1961 Finland becomes an associate member of
  the European Free Trade Association, Efta. The
  Soviet Union intervenes indirectly in the Finnish
  presidential election, an incident known as "the
  note crisis".
• 1973 Finland signs a free-trade agreement with
  the EEC.
• 1995 Finland becomes a
• member of the European
• Union.
• 2006 Conan OBrian intervenes directly
  presidential election Tarja Halonen wons.