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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.
A narrow, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long Helsinki Central Park, which stretches from the city centre to Helsinki's northern border, is an important recreational area for residents. The City of Helsinki has about 11,000 boat moorings and over 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres; 54 square miles) of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region ...
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.
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 ...
In 1790 music lovers founded the Åbo Musical Society; it gave the first major stimulus to serious music by Finnish composers. In the 1880s, new institutions, especially the Helsinki Music Institute (since 1939 called the Sibelius Academy ), the Institute of Music of Helsinki University and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra , integrated ...
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]
The Swedish King Gustav Vasa founded Helsinki on the mouth of the Vantaa River in 1550. The Annala Gardens on the west side of Hämeentie was founded in the 1820s. [1] [4] A current Bokvilla Park (Bokvillan puisto), located on Arabianranta, is home to a notorious place known as Hirsipuunkallio ("Gallow Rock"), which is the oldest execution site in Helsinki; from the 16th century until at least ...
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]