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The Kingdom of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kuningaskunta; Swedish: Konungariket Finland; 1918–1919) was a failed attempt to establish a monarchy in Finland in the aftermath of the Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in December 1917 and the Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918.
Regent (interim head of state) of Finland (1918–1919). Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces (1939–1945). The only Field Marshal and Marshal of Finland. Decreed as president in 1944 by an exception law. Resigned in 1946 because of poor health. Finland's only non-partisan president and the only president to die outside Finland. 7.
Frederick Charles was elected the King of Finland by the Parliament of Finland on 9 October 1918. [1] However, with the end of World War I , in light of his German birth (and despite his Danish roots through his paternal grandmother) and the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany ending monarchies in Germany, the arrangement was quickly ...
The war has been assigned several designations according to different political and ideological viewpoints. War of Independence (Finnish: vapaussota) was used during the war by both sides to express the fight for liberation from capitalism for the Reds and freedom from Soviet Russian influence by the Whites; Civil War is the term increasingly employed by the reconstituted social democrats ...
Ongoing - Finnish Civil War 6 March – The Finnish Army Corps of Aviation, a forerunner of the Finnish Air Force, is founded.The blue swastika, Viking in origin, is adopted as its symbol, in tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane.
After the Civil War, Finland's form of government was to be a monarchy. Friedrich Karl had already been elected king of Finland, but the kingdom project was over when Germany lost in The First World War. Finland then became a republic whose government was confirmed on 17 July 1919. [6] Shortly thereafter, K.J. Ståhlberg was elected president ...
Its motif was the coat of arms of Finland, surrounded by laurel leaves, on a white flag. 1650–1809: Flag of Sweden Used in Finland when it was part of The Kingdom of Sweden 1537–1650: Flag of Sweden Used in Finland when it was part of The Kingdom of Sweden 1397–1537: Flag of The Kalmar Union Used in Finland when it was part of Kalmar Union
The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (FSWR), more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a self-proclaimed socialist statelet in Finland during the Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918. The FSWR was established by the Finnish People's Delegation , a government formed by members of the Social Democratic Party to rival the existing ...