TIMELINE: Shooting incident in Finland

(Reuters) - A Kosovan-born gunman shot dead four people in a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday and killed his ex-girlfriend in an apartment before killing himself in Finland's third shooting spree in as many years.

Here are some details of those and other previous major incidents in Scandinavia:

January 1, 1990 - Seven people died after a disgruntled student went on a New Year's Day shooting spree in a club in the southern town of Narsaq, Greenland, 250 miles south of the island's capital of Nuuk.

June 11, 1994 - Mattias Flink, a 24-year-old second lieutenant and shooting instructor in the Swedish army, went back to his base in Falun, central Sweden, after being thrown out of a restaurant for bothering women, donned his military uniform and used his AK5 automatic rifle to kill seven people.

-- It was the worst mass killing in Sweden in the 20th century. Flink was charged with seven murders and three attempted murders and sentenced to 14 years in jail.

January 18, 2001 - Two Swedish teenagers were charged with murder after the killing of another teenager in school toilets. Police found the 16-year-old shot in the neck at Bromma Secondary School in Stockholm.

November 7, 2007 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, killed six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and then himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.

-- Auvinen admired Adolf Hitler, counted Plato and Nietzsche among his favorite writers and called the handgun he used "Catherine."

September 23, 2008 - Student Matti Saari, 22, opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine students and one male staff member before killing himself.

January 23, 2009 - A policeman shot dead a trainee female teacher and then shot himself in what appeared to be a quarrel between former lovers outside a school in the northern Norwegian town of Tromsoe. The policeman died of his wounds days later.

December 31, 2009 - Police said Ibrahim Shkupolli, 43, killed three men and a woman at the Sello mall in Espoo, a town near Helsinki, as shoppers stocked up for the New Year holiday.

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)