1991 in Finland
Events from the year '''1991 in Finland'''
Incumbents
Events
- 17 March - 1991 Finnish parliamentary election
- 18 April - The first of the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders is discovered.
- 20 October - 1991 Ålandic legislative election
Full date unknown
- The Iriadamant group established itself in Kittilä.
Establishments
- 12 "Wilderness Areas" are established in Lapland:
- *Hammastunturi Wilderness Area
- *Kaldoaivi Wilderness Area
- *Käsivarsi Wilderness Area
- *Kemihaara Wilderness Area
- *Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area
- *Paistunturi Wilderness Area
- *Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area
- *Pulju Wilderness Area
- *Tarvantovaara Wilderness Area
- *Tsarmitunturi Wilderness Area
- *Tuntsa Wilderness Area
- *Vätsäri Wilderness Area
Culture
Sports
Finnish people were in- 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships
- 1991 Men's European Volleyball Championship
- 1991 European Figure Skating Championships
Births
Deaths
- 11 January – Irwin Goodman, musician
- 12 March – Ragnar Granit, neuroscientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 30 August – Joel Pekuri, diplomat