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| 1900 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station | |
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| 1917 July |
| | | Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks | |
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| 1917 October |
| | | Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker | |
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| 1919 January 4 |
| | | Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Finnish designer Alvar Aalto develops a bent plywood three-legged stool, specifically designed for stacking | |
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| 1939 September 19 |
| | | Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark jointly declare their neutrality | |
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| 1939 November 30 |
| | | Soviet troops cross the borders of Finland, beginning the brief Russo-Finnish War, in keeping with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | |
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| 1939 December 14 |
| | | The USSR is expelled from the League of Nations because of the Soviet invasion of Finland | |
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