1991 in Finland

Events from the year 1991 in Finland

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

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

 * Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
 * List of number-one singles of 1991 (Finland)

Sports
Finnish people were in
 * 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships
 * 1991 Men's European Volleyball Championship
 * 1991 European Figure Skating Championships

Births

 * 3 June - Sami Vatanen, ice hockey defenceman

Deaths

 * 12 March – Ragnar Granit, neuroscientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1900)
 * 30 August - Joel Pekuri, diplomat (born 1927)