Sources: BBC News
Estonia becomes the 36th country in the world where same-sex couples can marry. 2024-01-1
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
Russia expels diplomats from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in retaliation for the earlier expulsions of Russian diplomats from these countries. 2022-03-29
Estonia announces that it will close its airspace to all Russian airlines. 2022-02-26
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania announce that they will expel several Russian diplomats involved in espionage activities in solidarity with the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic had ordered most Russian diplomatic staff to leave Prague on Thursday and called on its European allies to do the same. 2021-04-23
The first school shooting in Estonia takes place in Viljandi. 2014-10-27
The President of the United States visits Estonia in a move to reassure the Baltic states ahead of a NATO summit in Wales. 2014-09-3
Taavi Rõivas is sworn in as Prime Minister of Estonia, succeeding Andrus Ansip and becoming the youngest government leader in the European Union at 34 years. 2014-03-26
Karen Drambjan, a left-wing Estonian lawyer, storms the Defense Ministry in Tallinn and takes two hostages, but is killed when special police forces storm the building. 2011-08-11