Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

* 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.

* 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country ( i. e. Finland ) to Russia.

The Provisional Government refused to accept the " Power Act " and sent more Russian troops to Finland, where, with the co-operation and support of Finnish conservatives, Parliament was dissolved and new elections announced.

The number of Finnish troops on each side varied from 50, 000 to 90, 000.

The Finnish Civil War was fought primarily along the railways, the vital means of transporting troops and supplies.

As a result, only 7, 000 to 10, 000 troops participated in the Finnish Civil War, of which no more than 4, 000, in separate smaller units of 100-1, 000 men, could be persuaded to fight in the front line.

On 30 January 1918 General Mannerheim proclaimed to Russian soldiers in Finland that the White army did not fight against Russia: the goal of the White campaign was to beat the Finnish Red rebels and the Russian troops supporting them.

Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications.

During the Winter war, Finnish ski troops became known for appearing out of woods to a road used by a Soviet column, opening fire with M / 31s and disappearing into the woods on the other side of the road, and during the Continuation war the Finnish Sissi patrols would often equip every soldier with M / 31s.

* June 25 – WWII: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ( the largest battle ever in the Nordic countries ) begins between Finnish and Soviet troops.

* January 25 – 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base.

* February 1 – WWII: Winter War – Russian forces launch a major assault on Finnish troops occupying the Karelian Isthmus.

* February 21 – Finnish War: Russian troops cross the border into Finland without a declaration of war.

* June 12 – Finnish War: A landing of Swedish troops at Ala-Lemu, near Turku, fails.

* June 19 – Finnish War: A second landing of Swedish troops at Ala-Lemu fails.

Under the terms of the armistice, Finland was obligated to expel German troops from Finnish territory, which resulted in the Lapland War.

The last stand of the Finnish troops was in the battle of Storkyro in early 1714 in Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia.

During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications.

Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

The Uralic languages, which include Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, also have a significant presence in Europe.

Whereas the current Finnish administration ( notably Jutta Urpilainen ) has been more hesitant towards the EU monetary policy than the previous ones, Eurobarometers and other polls have shown that among Finnish citizens, the opinion trend has been somewhat reversed during recent years.

Many of the coinages that have been considered ( often by Aavik himself ) as words concocted ex nihilo could well have been influenced by foreign lexical items, for example words from Russian, German, French, Finnish, English and Swedish.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

In addition to preview by the Constitutional Law Committee, all Finnish courts of law have the obligation to give precedence to the constitution when there is an obvious conflict between the constitution and a regular law.

When compared with women of other nations, Finnish women, who accounted for just over 50 percent of the population in the mid1980s, did have a privileged place.

Henceforth any child born of a Finnish woman would have Finnish citizenship.

Studies of Finnish mobility patterns since World War II have confirmed the significance of this exodus.

The Finnish Civil War would probably have started at that point had there been enough weapons in the country to arm the two sides ; instead, there began a race for weapons and a final escalation towards war.

" Shallow " orthographies such as those of standard Spanish and Finnish have relatively regular ( though not always one-to-one ) correspondence between graphemes and phonemes, while those of French and English have much less regular correspondence, and are known as deep orthographies.

Finnish and Estonian, among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of telicity between telic and atelic.

The Finnish language is thought to have started to differentiate during the Iron Age starting from the 1st centuries AD onwards.

Artefacts found in Kalanti and the province of Satakunta, for long monolingually Finnish, and their place-names have made several scholars argue for an existence of a proto-Germanic speaking population component a little later, during the Early and Middle Iron Age.

However, it is unclear if these have anything to do with the present Finnish people.

It is not discernibly related to other North American or northeast Asian indigenous languages, although some have proposed that it is related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Saami in the proposed Uralo-Siberian grouping, or even Indo-European languages as part of the hypothetical Nostratic superphylum.

His works have been translated into Belorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Russian and Slovenian.