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Congratulations Finland! 100 years of full independence!
8850BC - first inhabitants arrive in Finland after the Ice Age
7500BC - The Suomusjärvi culture
5100BC - The Neolithic Age
1700BC - The Bronze Age
500BC - The Early Iron Age
1BC - The Proto-Finnish language arrives in Finland
1AD - The Late Iron Age
400AD - The Middle Iron Age
800AD - The Late Iron Age (The Viking Age)
1050-1250 - The Crusade Age
1249 - 1808 - Finland under and a part of Sweden
1809 - 1917 - Finland as an autonomous Grand Duchy under Russia
1918 - The Finnish Civil War
1939-1940 - The Winter War
1941-1944 - The Continuation War
1944-1945 - The Lapland War
1946-1991 - Finland as a neutral nation between the US and the USSR
1986 - Finland becomes a part of the EFTA
1993 - Finland becomes a full member of the ETA
1995 - Finland joins the EU
1998 - Finland becomes a part of the Eurozone
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Domestic key years:
29.03.1809 - The Czar promises total self-determination except in foreign policy. That makes Finland a Grand Duchy responsible only for the Czar.
1860 - The Finnish Mark becomes the currency of Finland
1878 - The Mark is released from the Ruble and pegged in the gold standard according to the Latin Monetary Union
1879 - The Law of Total Economic Freedom
1906 - Finland becomes the first nation in the world to implement universal suffrage
1912 - "The Law of Equality" - Russian citizens get the same rights as Finns in Finland (later it is used as a guideline for other "non-ethnics")
1919 - Finland becomes a republic
1920 - The Treaty of Tartu. The borders of Finland and the Baltic States are agreed upon
1921 - Free elementary education made mandatory
1922 - Freedom of Religion (or no religion) act
1952 - Finland pays the last payment of our debts to the US, making us the only country ever to pay everything back
1955 - The former Axis are allowed to be included in the UN, including Finland
1960 - The law of unemployment subsidies for all
1964 - Universal healthcare implemented
1968 - Universal free education
1972 - Universal free healthcare encompassing the theory of "from birth to death"
1978 - Mandatory consumer protection law
2012 - The Law of Popular Referendum - The first and only was the popular referendum of gay marriage. It passed in March 2017.
-1917 Independence state.
-1951 First Donald Duck cartoon magazine.
-1956 I decided that it makes sense to born for read Donald Duck at independence state.
-1996 Nightwish was founded.
-2013 Mr.Don Rosa from Disney came to Finland and work together with Nightwish founder Mr.Tuomas Holopainen.
-2014 Donald Duck cartoon/music project "Life of Scoorage" was published by Mr.Holopainen and Mr.Rosa.
-2017 I wrote this message and Finland is now 100 years old.
P.S. In 1878 Russian ruble was not pegged to gold?
It was! But before 1878 the Finnish mark was pegged to the Ruble only. I think the rate was that one ruble was worth 10 marks, regardless of what the ruble really was worth.
Time flies! It feels just like yesterday Finland was a duchy of the Russian Empire, lol.
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