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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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| 1940 |
| | | In To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson discusses the development of socialism and revolution, culminating in Lenin and Trotsky | |
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| 1940 March 12 |
| | | The Treaty of Moscow ends the war between the USSR and Finland, after 200,000 Soviet deaths in the three months of hostilities | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport | |
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