2 April – Viertola school shooting; Three 12-year old children are shot, one of them fatally, in a school shooting in Vantaa. The suspect, who is also a 12-year old, is arrested.[4]
13–14 April – Evacuations are ordered in parts of Northern Ostrobothnia due to flooding caused by the spring thaw.[5]
12 July – The Eduskunta votes 167-31 to approve a bill allowing the Finnish Border Guard to turn away third-country migrants trying to enter from Russia and reject their asylum applications on national security grounds.[8] The bill is signed into law by President Alexander Stubb on 16 July.[9]
