Periods
- Expand 9000 BC-ca 1200. Prehistoric Estonia
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ca 1200–1558. Estonian middle ages
- Sources
- Foreign conquest and formation of a new administrative division
- Spread of Christianity and religious orders
- Consolidation of the new regime. Origin and mutual relations of the new settlers
- Emergence of Old-Livonian towns and the developing trade
- Internal events in 14th century Old Livonia. St George’s Night Uprising
- Development of towns in the 14th–15th centuries. Church life in towns
- Internal affairs in 15th century Old Livonia: nobility, clergy and peasantry
- Religious life in the late Middle Ages. The Reformation
- The Late Middle Age Livonia in the foreign policy arena: Relations with Russians
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1558–1710. Estonia under Swedish rule
- Relations between Old Livonia and its neighbouring countries
- Swedish, Danish, Russian and Polish-Lithuanian wars for Estonia
- Estonia divided between Sweden, Poland and Denmark
- Population
- Cities
- Trade and industry
- Agrarian conditions
- Church and religion. Spiritual world
- Peasant education
- Elitist education and high culture
- Estonia during the reign of the absolutist King Charles XI. The Great Reduction of manors
- The Great Northern War. End of Swedish rule in Estonia
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1710–1850. The Baltic Landesstaat
- The Baltic Landesstaat
- Population: ethnic and social structure
- Serfdom and the intensifying manorial economy
- Influences of Pietism and the Moravian Brethren
- Enlightenment and enlightened absolutism
- Impact of the French Revolution
- Emergence of national consciousness and Estophilia
- Agrarian reforms and economic innovations
- Conversion movement and the final agrarian reform
- Expand 1850–1914. National awakening
- Expand 1914–1920. The First World War and Estonian independence
- Collapse 1920-1939. The Republic of Estonia between the two World Wars
- Expand 1939-1945. Estonia and World War II
- Expand 1945–1985. The Soviet Period
- Expand 1985–1991. Restoration of independence
1920-1939. The Republic of Estonia between the two World Wars
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Years of parliamentarian democracy
The chain of events unleashed by the 1917 Russian revolutions led through he War of Independence (1918-1920) to the Republic of Estonia. For the first ...
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Years of the Great Depression
The worldwide economic crisis that began in 1929 reached Estonia a year later. Falling prices, import restrictions, prohibitive tariffs on the world market and the ...
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Years of the authoritarian regime
By the beginning of 1934 the situation in Estonia had improved. The worst of the economic crisis was over, thanks to the devaluation of the ...
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