Independence Restoration Day 2024, 2025 and 2026
Independence Restoration Day in Estonia is marked on 20 August each year to celebrate the day in 1991 when Estonia regained the freedom it had lost to the Soviet Union more than five decades earlier.
| Year | Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20 Aug | Tue | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2025 | 20 Aug | Wed | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2026 | 20 Aug | Thu | Independence Restoration Day |
| Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. | |||
After Estonia’s long and ancient history that included Viking and Teutonic influence, in 1629, Sweden took control of mainland Estonia. In 1710, Russia forced Sweden to hand over Estonia as a part of the Treaty of Nystad. In 1918, after the Bolshevik Revolution, Estonia gained independence from Russia only to lose it again to the Soviets then, in 1941, to the Germans.
In 1944, Soviet forces again took control of, and began to ravage, Estonia. Decades later, a large majority of western countries declared that Soviet occupation of Estonia was illegal and Estonia finally declared independence, again, on 20 August 1991.
Previous Years
| Year | Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20 Aug | Sun | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2022 | 20 Aug | Sat | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2021 | 20 Aug | Fri | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2020 | 20 Aug | Thu | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2019 | 20 Aug | Tue | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2018 | 20 Aug | Mon | Independence Restoration Day |
| 2017 | 20 Aug | Sun | Independence Restoration Day |
