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Helsingfors 1776-1777. Helsinki was founded by Swedish King Gustav I in 1550 as the town of Helsingfors.Gustav intended for the town to serve the purpose of consolidating trade in the southern part of Finland and providing a competitor to Reval (today: Tallinn), a nearby Hanseatic League city which dominated local trade at the time.
Helsinki was founded by King Gustav I of Sweden on 12 June 1550 as a trading town called Helsingfors to rival the Hanseatic city of Reval (now Tallinn) on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. [ 39 ] [ 30 ] To populate the new town at the mouth of the Vantaa River , the king ordered the bourgeoisie of Porvoo , Raseborg , Rauma and Ulvila ...
Helsinki School of Economics founded. Domestic Opera founded. [citation needed] Helsinki City Museum opens. [19] 1912 - Helsinki Stock Exchange founded. 1917 May: 1917 Helsinki church riot occurs. Helsinki Workers' Council formed. [20] 1916 - National Museum of Finland opens. 1918 Civil war. [3] British submarine flotilla in harbor. 1919 16 May ...
Helsinki was founded by the King Gustav I of Sweden in 1550 as Helsingfors "Hälsingland rapids". At the time, Finland was an integral part of post-Kalmar Union Sweden , the surrounding region of Nylandia (now Uusimaa ) was predominantly Swedish-speaking and Swedish was the administrative language of the kingdom.
In 1550 Helsinki was founded by Gustav Vasa under the name of Helsingfors, but remained little more than a fishing village for more than two centuries. King Gustav Vasa died in 1560 and his crown was passed to his three sons in separate turns.
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
In the 16th century, a bishop and Lutheran Reformer Mikael Agricola published the first written works in Finnish; [50] and Finland's current capital city, Helsinki, was founded by King Gustav Vasa in 1555. [51]
Helsinki had been founded as a trading town by Gustav I in 1550 as the town of Helsingfors, which he intended to be a rival to the Hanseatic city of Reval (today known as Tallinn), directly south across the Gulf of Finland. The siting proved unfavourable and the town remained small and insignificant, and it was plagued by poverty and diseases.