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The Finnish diaspora consists of Finnish emigrants and their descendants, especially those that maintain some of the customs of their Finnish culture. Finns emigrated to the United Kingdom, the United States , France, Canada , Australia , Argentina , New Zealand , Sweden , Norway , Russia, Germany, Israel and Brazil.
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
|date=2020-07-30 |source=* Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg. Information available on page Finns on the English Wikipedia; Number of Finns living abroad per country: NW, 1615 L. St. Global Migration Map: Origins and Destinations, 1990-2017 (in en-US). Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project.
The public education system founded during earlier Swedish rule resulted the literacy of Grand Duchy of Finland being higher than its host country Russian Empire (map of 1897 census literacy data) Portrait of Finnish poet Elias Lönnrot who wrote "the Kalevala" (1802 - 1884) Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion, 1850s Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the ...
Kyösti Kallio became president of Finland. [8] 1939: 30 November: Winter War: The war began. 1940: 13 March: Winter War: The war ended. 19 December: Risto Ryti became president of Finland. [8] 1941: 25 June: Continuation War: The war began against Soviet Union. 10 July: Finnish conquest of East Karelia (1941): The conquest began. September ...
The migration continued well into the 20th century, until U.S. authorities set up a quota of 529 Finnish immigrants per year in 1929. Initially, this led to an increase in Finnish immigration to Canada. But as social and economic conditions in Finland improved significantly during this era, overall immigration decreased by the middle of the ...
However, the influx of 4 million European immigrants between 1870 and 1920 significantly altered the racial composition of the country. [21] From 1901 to 1920, immigration was responsible for only 7 percent of Brazilian population growth, but in the years of high immigration, from 1891 to 1900, the share was as high as 30 percent (higher than ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history