Timeline of Helsinki

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Helsinki, Finland.

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  • 1550 - Trading town established by Gustav I of Sweden.[1]
  • 1569 - City privileges granted.[2]
  • 1570 - Fire.[2]
  • 1616 - "Diet of Finland held in Helsinki."[2]
  • 1640 - Helsinki relocated across Kluuvinlahti bay to Vironniemi"[2]
  • 1654 - Fire.[2]
  • 1695 - Famine begins.[2]
  • 1710 - Plague.[2]
  • 1713 - Helsinki taken by Russian forces.[3]
  • 1727 - Ulrika Eleonora Church built.
  • 1742 - Helsinki occupied by Russians again.[3]
  • 1743 - Herring fair begins.
  • 1748 - Sveaborg fortress construction begins.[3]
  • 1757 - Sederholm house built.[2]

19th century
Map of Helsinki, 1837

20th century
Map of Helsinki, c. 1900s

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

21st century

See also

References
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  2. City Museum. "History of Helsinki (timeline)". City of Helsinki. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  3. "Brief history of Helsinki". City of Helsinki. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  4. Haydn 1910.
  5. Britannica 1910.
  6. "Finland Profile: Timeline", BBC News, retrieved 30 September 2015
  7. "Garden Search: Finland". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  8. Donna M. Di Grazia, ed. (2013). Nineteenth-Century Choral Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-98852-0.
  9. "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478. Helsingfors
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  11. Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 575–594. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
  12. Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
  13. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
  14. New York Times 2006.
  15. Uschakoff 1898.
  16. "Movie Theaters in Helsinki, Finland". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  17. City Museum. "Hakasalmi Villa - History of the museum building". City of Helsinki. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  18. Anthony F. Upton (1980). The Finnish Revolution: 1917-1918. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-0905-5.
  19. "Finland". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
  20. "City of Helsinki Mayors 1922-". City of Helsinki. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  21. Klaus K Hotel. "History". Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  22. Jørgen S. Nielsen; et al., eds. (2013). "Finland". Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. 5. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25586-9.
  23. Don Rubin; et al., eds. (1994). "Finland". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe. Routledge. pp. 250+. ISBN 9780415251570.
  24. Major Cities and Their Peripheries: Co-operation and Co-ordinated Management. Local and Regional Authorities in Europe. Council of Europe Press. 1993. ISBN 978-92-871-2394-7.
  25. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  26. Bernard A. Cook, ed. (2013). "Chronology of Major Political Events". Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-17939-7.
  27. Göran Larsson, ed. (2009). Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-01292-3.
  28. Hämäläinen 2014.
  29. "How Helsinki mashed up "open data" with regionalism". CitiScope. USA. April 2014.
  30. "Kaupunginvaltuusto valitsi pormestarin ja apulaispormestarit". Helsingin kaupunki. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

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