The Livonian War further secured Polish authority, having halted Russian attempt to conquer the region.

Livonia did not hold any significant position in the Commonwealth's history since it was divided between the Poles, Swedes and Danes;[2] as for its remoteness outside tax incomes,[3] and this would remain until both fell into the hand of the Russian Empire.

[10] Instead, in 1925, Poland and Estonia together with Finland and Latvia signed a convention on conciliation and arbitration in Helsinki.

In 1942, Polish Prime Minister-in-Exile Władysław Sikorski's intervention to British and American authorities thwarted Soviet attempts to obtain Allied approval for the planned annexation of Estonia and eastern Poland.

[16] Both Poles and Estonians were among the prisoners of the Nazi German Sonnenburg concentration camp in Słońsk,[17] and Estonian conscripts from the Soviet Red Army, alike Polish POWs and civilians were among the prisoners of the Stalag II-B German prisoner-of-war camp in Czarne.

Since 1991, trades and cooperation between Estonia and Poland had increased dramatically, turning them into economic and political partnership.

The threat from Russia, which increased under Vladimir Putin, has also prompted two countries to set closer tie together against a common foe.

[22] April 12, 2010, was declared a day of national mourning in Estonia to commemorate the 96 victims of the Smolensk air disaster, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska.

In November 2021, during the Belarus–European Union border crisis, Estonia decided to send 100 troops from the Estonian Defence Forces to help Poland.

Estonia's last gasp chance to make the UEFA European Championships football finals in Germany later this summer were decisively laid to rest in Warsaw as the Estonian team went down 5:1 at the Narodowy Stadium.