Sources: BBC News
Danske Bank completes its three-year corporate probation with the United States Department of Justice, concluding all regulatory proceedings related to suspicious transactions at its former Estonian branch, after pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and forfeiting US$2 billion as part of a 2022 settlement. 2025-12-15
The European Court of Justice fines Germany {{Euro}}34 million (US$36.7 million) for failing to implement a European Union law to protect whistleblowers by 2021. The Court also fines Czechia {{Euro}}2.3 million, Hungary {{Euro}}1.5 million, and Luxembourg and Estonia {{Euro}}500,000 each for the same reason. 2025-03-6
HVDC submarine power cable Estlink 2, which connects the power grids of Estonia and Finland, suffers an unexplained outage with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo stating that an investigation into the incident is underway. 2024-12-25
The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats. 2024-06-26
Estonia becomes the 36th country in the world where same-sex couples can marry. 2024-01-1
Estonia reports that a Russian Border Service Mi-8 helicopter violated its airspace over the weekend. The Russian ambassador to Estonia was summoned in response to the incident. 2022-06-21
Russia expels diplomats from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in retaliation for the earlier expulsions of Russian diplomats from these countries. 2022-03-29
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