Sources: BBC News
Estonia summons Russia's chargé d'affaires after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets enter its airspace near Vaindloo unauthorized, prompting a NATO response from Italian Air Force F-35s. 2025-09-19
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
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnect from the IPS-UPS synchronous transmission grid in order to synchronize with the Continental Europe grid. 2025-02-8
Estonia says that it will not recognize the results of the upcoming presidential election in Belarus, which it claims has already been rigged to ensure that President Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected. 2024-12-20
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
Estonia delivers a shipment of U.S.-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. 2022-02-18
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
10 children are killed by a fire during their afternoon nap at a home for disabled children in Haapsalu, Estonia. 2011-02-20
Estonia, one of the Baltic republics of the former Soviet Union, adopts the euro as its official currency, becoming the 17th country to do so. 2010-12-31
The EU announces that Estonia is to become the seventeenth member of the euro on 1 January 2011. 2010-07-13