title: 1940 in Estonia
text: # 1940 in Estonia
  
  This article lists events that occurred during 1940 in Estonia.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia Karl Säre
  
  ## Events
  
  * 17 June – The Red Army occupied Estonia and Latvia.
  * 21 July – New Estonian Parliament (loyal to Soviet powers) proclaimed Estonian SSR.
  * 6 August – Estonia was unlawfully declared the Estonian SSR and was, against the law, incorporated into the Soviet Union.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 19 February – Jaan Kiivit Jr., Estonian clergyman
  * 30 April – Ülo Õun, sculptor (died 1988)
  