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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 becomes capital of Grand Duchy of Finland. [6] Esplanadi park opens. 1815 - Helsinki Orthodox Cemetery established. 1819 - Sinebrychoff Brewery founded. 1822 - Government Palace built. 1826 - Helsinki Old Church built. 1827 - Engels Teater, the first theatre, is built. [2] 1828 - The Royal Academy of Turku relocates to Helsinki. [3]
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 ...
Based on etymological evidence, it seems that its very first influences came to present-day Finland from the Eastern Christian tradition. [5] Archaeological evidence shows that by the middle 12th century, Christianity was dominant in the region around present-day Turku. One legend recounts a crusade dated around 1054, but no contemporary or ...
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 (Finnish: Uusimaa ) was predominantly Swedish-speaking and Swedish was the administrative language of the kingdom.
Finland is a predominantly Christian nation where 63.6% of the Finnish population of 5.6 million are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland , 33.6% are unaffiliated, 1.0% are Orthodox Christians, 0.9% are other Christians and 0.9% follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, folk religion etc. [1] These ...
Many important reforms were made and many towns were founded. His period of administration is generally considered very beneficial to the development of Finland. 1640: Finland's first university, the Academy of Åbo, was founded in Turku at the proposal of Count Per Brahe by Queen Christina of Sweden. 1642: the whole Bible was published in Finnish.
Megrijärvi Monastery, also Megri (Megrijärven luostari), in Ilomantsi, North Karelia, on the Russian border; founded c.1800 by Onefrei for Old Believers fleeing persecution in Russia, initially for monks, but from 1850 also for nuns; the state acquired the property in 1914 and the last resident, a nun, left in 1919 [12]