Sources: BBC News
Five people, including Estonian businessmen Oleg Sõnajalg and Priit Jaagant, are killed when two Robinson R44 civilian helicopters en route to Piikajärvi Airfield collide mid-air and crash into the ground in a forested area near Eura, Satakunta, Finland. 2025-05-17
Russia removes the border markers signaling the border with Estonia on the Narva River, prompting a protest by the EU. 2024-05-23
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is reportedly placed on the Russian Interior Ministry's register of wanted people due to the country's removal of Soviet war memorials, making Kallas the first known government leader to be added to a wanted list by Russian authorities. 2024-02-13
Three parties (Reform, E200 and Social Democrats), led by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, agree to a new government coalition, five weeks after the parliamentary elections in Estonia. 2023-04-9
Estonia and Latvia formally withdraw from the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries group amid tensions with China over its human rights record and its support of Russia's war on Ukraine. 2022-08-11
Presidents Andrzej Duda of Poland, Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania, Egils Levits of Latvia, and Alar Karis of Estonia arrive in Kyiv and meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 2022-04-13
Estonia announces that it will close its airspace to all Russian airlines. 2022-02-26
10 children are killed by a fire during their afternoon nap at a home for disabled children in Haapsalu, Estonia. 2011-02-20
The EU announces that Estonia is to become the seventeenth member of the euro on 1 January 2011. 2010-07-13