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1914
December
18
Meeting of the Scandinavian kings in Malmö
On 18–19 December 1914 the kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway met in Malmö. With their foreign ministers they made a show of common neutrality.
1915
March
13
Sinking of the Swedish steamer Hanna
On 13 March 1915 the Swedish steamer Hanna sank off Yorkshire. The British held she was torpedoed, but she may have struck a German mine.
July
02
Naval battle off Gotland
On 2 July 1915 Russian cruisers forced the German minelayer Albatross to run aground on Gotland. Off Rozewie the E9 torpedoed the Prinz Adalbert.
1917
February
13
Scandinavian states protest
On 13 February 1917 Sweden, Norway and Denmark handed Germany and Austria-Hungary identical notes of protest against unrestricted submarine warfare.
November
02
Kattegat raid
On 2 November 1917 British destroyers broke into the Kattegat and sank the German Q-ship K and the eight or nine trawlers it was escorting.
1918
January
04
Recognition of Finnish independence
On 4 January 1918 VTsIK approved the Lenin government's recognition of Finland's independence. France, Sweden and Germany followed that day, then others.
March
05
Germans land on the Åland Islands
On 5 March 1918 a German squadron carrying a Jäger battalion reached Eckerö in the Åland Islands, held by the Swedes since February. Sweden gave way.
April
06
Whites take Tampere
On 6 April 1918, after three weeks of fighting, the last defenders of Tampere surrendered. Mannerheim's Whites took some 11,000 prisoners and broke Red Finland.
15
Second Kattegat raid
On 15 April 1918 British light forces again broke into the Kattegat and sank ten German armed trawlers. Their crews were rescued.