newspaper in Valga, in German, is issued.
*1889: Valga Railway Station is opened. On 22 July the Tartu-Valga railway line is officially opened.
*1890 16 December: The Valga Temperance Society is founded.
*1896: The Pärnu-Valga narrow-gauge railway is opened.
*1901 7 December: Together with Latvians, Estonians succeed in winning the elections over Baltic Germans in Valga – the first occasion on Estonian territory. The chemist Johannes Märtson is elected mayor.
*1902: In the building of the Temperance Society the social society Säde is founded; Andres Alver, the county medical officer, is elected chairman. The Valga-Marienburg narrow-gauge railway is opened.
*1904 22 May: Estonian poet and writer Paul Viiding is born in Valga.
*1908 24 June: Estonian military commander Alfons Rebane is born in Valga.
*1908: The Girls' Progymnasium is changed into the Gymnasium with Marta Pärna as principal.
*1909: The construction of the Säde building is begun (architect Georg Hellat).
*1917: A German zeppelin flies over the town and drops forty high-explosive bombs without hitting the main target, the railway station.
*1918 11 January: The Council of Delegates of Valga County Workers, Soldiers and Landless Men gains power in the town. On 12 February the German Army occupies Valga.
*1919 11 January: The Valga Estonian Gymnasium is opened at 22 Kesk Street. For the first time in the history of secondary education in Valga the teaching language is Estonian instead of German. At the end of January, 107 victims of Bolshevik acts of terror are found in five mass graves around Valga; 67 people are taken away as hostages. On 31 January the Battle of Paju takes place and consequently Valga is freed from the Bolsheviks.
*1920 1 July: The British envoy Colonel S. G. Tallents conclusively establishes the border between Estonia and Latvia. Valga proper, as far as Konnaoja and Luke graveyard, remains
