Important dates throughout the centuries:
1583 – First known written mention of “Tutinlinna”
1688 – Arable land audit – The first surviving list of Tudulinna residents (their relationship to later local families has not been proven)
1716 – Inquisition and Annotation Protocol, which lists several Tudulinna families – the ancestors of the oldest families
1736 – First written mention of Tudulinna sexton (Pitkete Karel)
1766 – Construction of the first church on Linnamäe
1802 – 1804 – Construction of Tudulinna Manor
1808 – Construction of the Moravian Church’s Prayer House, probably the oldest preserved building in Tudulinna
1835 – Tudulinna’s farmers receive surnames
1845 – First written reports about Tudulinna School
1860-1864 – Extensive church reconstruction, including the addition of the tower
1866 – Creation of Tudulinna municipality
1867 – Tudulinna is transferred from Viru-Jakobi Parish to Iisaku Parish
1874 – First schoolhouse is completed (the wooden building where the current school is situated)
1885-1913 – Purchasing of farms
1892 – Song and Game Society is founded (Laulu ja Mängu Selts)
1898 – Construction of the Social House (extension as part of the hall added in 1913); the house burned down in 1957
1900 – In a fire, the wooden mansion of Tudulinna Manor is destroyed. It is never restored.
1903-1904 – The schoolhouse receives its first stone floor (the second floor was constructed in1932-1933, and the third floor added in 1960)
1923 – Opening of a memorial to the victims of the War of Independence in Tudulinna cemetery (blown up in 1940)
1923 – Voldemar Kuljus becomes the pastor of Iisaku and Tudulinna; after a while the religious quarrel begins
1926 – A pharmacy is built in the middle of the village (where the current community centre is situated); the pharmacy burned down in 1944
1930 – Construction of the Peressaare settlement on the outskirts of Oonurme begins.
1930-1931 – Newspaper “Tudulinna Hääl” (eng – Tudulinna’s Voice) published
1937 – Rannapungerja lighthouse was built
1939 – Construction of the Church of Peace, renovation of the old church
1941 – Twenty-one members of the municipality of Tudulinna are deported by Soviet authorities
1947 – Last service in the Old Church; the two churches were united
1947-1950 – Construction of a hydroelectric power station on the Roostoja River at the Särjetõkke rapids (closed in 1960)
1949 – Soviet authorities deport 129 of Tudulinna’s inhabitants
1950 – The municipality became a village council
1954-1963 – Tudulinna High School was functional
1959 – A new Culture House was completed
1969 – Singing grounds were built behind Linnamäe
1990 – The memorial to the victims of the War of Independence was restored
1991 – The village council was restored to municipality status
1999 – Tudulinna hydroelectric power station was reopened
2013 – Järuska Bridge, Estonia’s first covered bridge, opened in Lemmiku
2017 – NPO Tudulinna Kultuurikants was founded; the Tudulinna rural municipality merged with neighbouring municipalities due to administrative reform, forming the largest municipality on the Estonian mainland: the Alutaguse rural municipality
2019 – Tudulinna’s school closed.