The most interesting historical events in Estonia
The treaty was also of utmost importance to
Soviet Russia being its first international treaty.
· After signing, Soviet Russia failed to fulfill several points of the
treaty, e.g. the museological collections of the University of Tartu are
not turned in even today from Voronezh and the migration of
Estonians was obstructed.
St. George's Night Uprising
· St. George's Night Uprising denotes a series of
rebellions in 13431345 by the indigenous Estonianspeaking
population of Northern and Western Estonia against rulers of
foreign (mainly German) origin.
· On St. George's Night (April 23) 1343, Estonians in Harria
started a large uprising. They renounced Christianity, and killed
mercilessly everybody with German ancestry
· Insurgents elected their own leaders who were called
"kings" in German chronicles.
· On May 14th, the leaderless insurgents of Harria lost the
annaabi.ee 
