Estonia

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1917

November

28
- Maapäev assumes power in EstoniaOn 28 November 1917 Estonia's provincial assembly, the Maapäev, declared itself supreme power until a constituent assembly met. The Bolsheviks dispersed it.

1918

January

13
- Estonians decide to declare independenceOn 13–14 January 1918 leaders of the Maapäev and Estonian parties secretly agreed in Tallinn to declare independence before the Germans arrived.

February

24
- Germans take DorpatOn 24 February 1918 the Germans entered Dorpat (Tartu), the university town of Livonia, unopposed. That day the Estonians declared independence in Tallinn.
- Estonia declares independenceOn 24 February 1918, as the Bolsheviks fled and the Germans neared, the Estonian Salvation Committee proclaimed the Republic of Estonia in Tallinn.
25
- Germans take Reval and PskovOn 25 February 1918 the Germans entered Reval (Tallinn), and in the night after a brief fight they took Pskov. The road to Petrograd lay open before them.
- British recognition of EstoniaIn late February 1918 London told Tõnisson in Stockholm it would provisionally recognise the Estonian Constituent Assembly as a de facto independent body.

March

04
- Germans take NarvaOn the morning of 4 March 1918, a day after peace at Brest, the Germans entered Narva, abandoned by Dybenko's sailors. They went no further towards Petrograd.

April

12
- United Baltic dietsOn 12 April 1918 in Riga a united council of Livonia and Estonia, dominated by Baltic Germans, asked for a monarchy in personal union with Prussia.

August

27
- Supplementary treaty to Brest-LitovskOn 27 August 1918 Germany and Soviet Russia signed in Berlin a supplementary treaty to the Peace of Brest-Litovsk. Russia agreed to pay 6 billion marks.

November

December

1919

June

23
- Battle of CēsisOn 23 June 1919 Estonians and Latvians entered Cēsis (Wenden), having defeated the Landeswehr and General von der Goltz's German Iron Division.

October

20
- Yudenich outside PetrogradOn 20 October 1919 Yudenich's North-Western Army stood outside Petrograd, from Ligovo to Tsarskoye Selo. It did not, however, take the city.

1920

February

02
- Treaty of TartuOn 2 February 1920 in Tartu Estonia and Soviet Russia signed a peace treaty. Moscow recognised Estonia's independence and renounced its lands "for ever".