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2015 In Estonia
The following lists events and other items of interest occurring during 2015 in Estonia. Incumbents * President: Toomas Hendrik Ilves * Prime Minister: Taavi Rõivas Events March *1 March - Parliamentary elections are held. The ruling Reform Party wins the elections, but loses the majority that it has had with its current coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party; for the first time in many years, two new parties cross the election threshold, the right-of-centre Free Party and the eurosceptic Conservative People's Party of Estonia. Deaths *27 January - Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, 83, film director *21 June - Arved Viirlaid, 93, Estonian-Canadian writer *30 July - Endel Lippmaa Endel Lippmaa (15 September 1930 – 30 July 2015) was an Estonian academic, politician, founder and chairman of the Science Council of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics best known for his work in uncovering crucial doc ..., 84, scientist and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake; World Leaders pose for a picture during the 2015 Paris Agreement; an airstrike in Sana'a during the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen; Refugees of the Syrian civil war come ashore in Greece; FIFA president Sepp Blatter is forced to resign in disgrace in the wake of the 2015 FIFA corruption case; New Horizons makes a flyby and takes the first images of Pluto., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 November 2015 Paris attacks rect 200 0 400 200 Germanwings Flight 9525 rect 400 0 600 200 April 2015 Nepal earthquake rect 0 200 300 400 New Horizons rect 300 200 600 400 Paris Agreement rect 0 400 200 600 2015 FIFA corruption case rect 200 400 400 600 Refugees of the Syrian civil war rect 400 400 600 600 Saudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27 January
Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily. *1302 – Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence. *1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. 1601–1900 *1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31. *1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Europe
This is a list of 1300 events that occurred in Europe. Events January * 1 January ** Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes the 19th Eurozone country. ** The Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia comes into effect. * 3 January – The Islamic-rooted government of Turkey authorizes the building of the first church in the country since 1923. * 4 January – Eight people are presumed dead after the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship MV ''Cemfjord'' capsizes off the northern coast of Scotland. * 7 January – Gunmen attack the Paris office of French satirical magazine '' Charlie Hebdo'', killing 12 people and injuring eleven. * 9 January – A member of the Islamic State attacks a Hypercacher kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, Paris, killing four people and taking several hostages. * 11 January ** More than 3.7 million people, among them 60 heads of states and governments, march in France to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s In Estonia
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit (measurement), unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest Positive number, positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the sequence (mathematics), infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Estonia
The following lists events and other items of interest occurring during 2015 in Estonia. Incumbents * President: Toomas Hendrik Ilves * Prime Minister: Taavi Rõivas Events March *1 March - Parliamentary elections are held. The ruling Reform Party wins the elections, but loses the majority that it has had with its current coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party; for the first time in many years, two new parties cross the election threshold, the right-of-centre Free Party and the eurosceptic Conservative People's Party of Estonia. Deaths *27 January - Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, 83, film director *21 June - Arved Viirlaid, 93, Estonian-Canadian writer *30 July - Endel Lippmaa Endel Lippmaa (15 September 1930 – 30 July 2015) was an Estonian academic, politician, founder and chairman of the Science Council of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics best known for his work in uncovering crucial doc ..., 84, scientist and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Estonian Television
This is a list of Estonian television related events from 2015. Events *21 February - Elina Born and Stig Rästa are selected to represent Estonia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with their song " Goodbye to Yesterday". They are selected to be the twenty-first Estonian Eurovision entry during Eesti Laul held at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn. *31 May - Jüri Pootsmann wins the sixth season of '' Eesti otsib superstaari''. *28 September - Launch of ETV+ Debuts Television shows 1990s *'' Õnne 13'' (1993–present) 2000s *'' Eesti otsib superstaari'' (2007–present) Ending this year Births Deaths *29 October – Herta Elviste (born 1923), actress See also *2015 in Estonia The following lists events and other items of interest occurring during 2015 in Estonia. Incumbents * President: Toomas Hendrik Ilves * Prime Minister: Taavi Rõivas Events March *1 March - Parliamentary elections are held. The ruling R ... {{Estonia-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Lippmaa
Endel Lippmaa (15 September 1930 – 30 July 2015) was an Estonian academic, politician, founder and chairman of the Science Council of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics best known for his work in uncovering crucial documents in the Soviet annexation in 1940 of Estonia and the other Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania was illegal. He was also head chairman and professor of chemical physics, physical chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the Estonian Academy of Sciences and was highly regarded in his worinto solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) In 1999, he was voted one of the 100 great Estonians of the 20th century. Scientific and Political career In 1972 Endel Lippmaa was elected as a Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He served as a member of the Board of the Academy for the period 1975–2014. In 1977-1982 he was Secretary-Academician of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Engineering, in 1999-2004 Head of the Division of As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 July
Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. *1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. *1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1601–1900 * 1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. *1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time. *1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy. *1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. *1645 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arved Viirlaid
Arved Viirlaid (April 11, 1922 – June 21, 2015) was an Estonian-Canadian writer. Viirlaid was born in Padise, Harju County, Estonia. Arved Viirlaid fought in the Estonian regiment in Finland during the Second World War, returning to Estonia in 1944. He escaped from Soviet-occupied Estonia, settling first in the United Kingdom, and then moving to Canada in 1953. Viirlaid published 9 novels and several collections of poetry. His first novel, ''Tormiaasta'' (The Year of Storms), was published in 1949. In 1952, he published (Graves Without Crosses), which was translated from Estonian into seven other languages. The English translation appeared in 1972, with a preface by John Diefenbaker. His 1965 novel, ''Sadu jõkke'' (Rain for the River) has also been translated into English. He was awarded the Order of the National Coat of Arms The Order of the National Coat of Arms ( et, Riigivapi teenetemärk, french: Ordre du Blason National) was instituted by Konstantin Päts on 7 Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21 June
Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan. * 1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac. * 1582 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese ''daimyōs'', is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain. * 1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city. * 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. *1768 – James Otis Jr. offen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar
Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar (born Vladimir-Georg-Julian Orgusaar, from 1953 to 1976 Vladimir Karassev; 14 December 1931 – 27 January 2015) was an Estonian film director. Georg Karassev-Orgusaar was born in Tallinn. He studied history and literature at the Tomsk University and cinematography at the Moscow All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. In the Estonian SSR, he produced a number of documentary films. His trilogy on Soviet history consists of films "Precursor" (Estonian: "Eelkäija", 1967) on Viktor Kingissepp, "Solstice" ("Pööripäev", 1968) on June 1940 'revolution' in Estonia, a central myth of Soviet mythology in Estonia, and "Commander" ("Väejuht", 1968) on August Kork, an Estonian Bolshevik military leader and victim of 1937 Stalinist purges. The trilogy covers those moments of Soviet history in an ostensibly pro-Soviet manner, but leaves possibilities for other interpretations (e.g. parallels with 1968 events in Czechoslovakia; juxtaposing August K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative People's Party Of Estonia
The Conservative People's Party of Estonia ( et, Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond, EKRE) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Estonia. It is currently led by Martin Helme. It was founded in March 2012, with the merger of People's Union of Estonia and Estonian Patriotic Movement. Its first leader, Margo Miljand, served as the chairman until 2013, when he was succeeded by Mart Helme. Its popularity remained low until late 2014, when they managed to draw supporters from the right; further, in the 2015 Estonian parliamentary election, they managed to cross the threshold. Over the years, it managed to position itself as one of the largest parties in Estonia. In the 2019 Estonian parliamentary election, they placed third, winning 19 seats in total. Mart was succeeded by his son, Martin Helme, in July 2020. Since its inception, it has been a part of the ethno-nationalist camp of parties in Estonia. Ideologically, it has been described as a right-wing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
