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There are scattered descriptions of early Finnish wars, conflicts involving the Finnish people, some of which took place before the Middle Ages. The earliest historical accounts of conflicts involving Finnish tribes , such as Tavastians , Karelians , Finns proper and Kvens , have survived in Icelandic sagas and in German, Norwegian, Danish and ...
The Battle of Valkeala in 1790 took place in Valkeala, Finland, between Sweden and the Russian Empire.At the time, Finland was a component of the Swedish Realm. During the several following centuries, a gradual and slow process of Swedish expansion in today's Finland and the consolidation of Sweden took place, not through wars fought between the Finns and the Swedes, but rather by various ...
This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917. List. Conflict Party 1 Party 2 Result ... Finnish Civil War
The Finnish post-war president, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a leading conservative politician, saw that an essential element of Finnish foreign policy must be a credible guarantee to the Soviet Union that it need not fear attack from, or through, Finnish territory. Because a policy of neutrality was a political component of this guarantee, Finland ...
The Finnish–Novgorodian wars were a series of conflicts between Finnic tribes in eastern Fennoscandia and the Republic of Novgorod from the 11th or 12th century to the early 13th century. The wars' effect on the Finns' society contributed to the eventual Swedish conquest of western Finland in around 1249. The term used in Russian chronicles ...
Finnish War: The war began. 1809: 29 March: Diet of Finland was formed. 17 September: Finnish War: The war ended. 1818: The House of Bernadotte was established. 1869: The Ecclesiastical Law of 1869 was passed. 1889: The Dissenter Law of 1889 was passed. [7] 1892: Finnish became an official language of Finland. 1899: The Russification of Finland ...
According to von Dalin, the Finnish and Swedish elite even before the Swedish crusades had close friendly connections but also fought some wars. Neurer or Finns, the first inhabitants of Scandinavia, according to Dalin already had an independent Finlandic kingdom with their own courts and kings before the Old Uppsala kingdom was created.
The Second Finnish Naval Equipage (Toinen Suomen meriekipaasi, Andra Finska sjöekipaget) was founded during the Åland War, part of the Crimean War. Finnish Navy artillery-men fought against the British and French fleets from the Santahamina island shore batteries during the siege of Fortress Sveaborg in Helsinki.