Events in the year 1808 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII (Until 13 March 1808) Frederick VI (onwards) Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1808. 1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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arrived in 1808, after sinking or capturing most of the Danish-Norwegian Navy in the Battle of Copenhagen, the amount of gunpowder in Iceland was so small...
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Pétur (category Pages with Icelandic IPA)
forward Pétur Pétursson (bishop) (1808–1891), Icelandic Lutheran bishop Pétur Sigurgeirsson (1919–2010), the Bishop of Iceland from 1981 until 1989 Pétur Þorsteinsson...
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of Iceland. The first bishop of Iceland was Geir Vídalín who took office in 1801. As of 2024, 15 people have held the office of Bishop of Iceland. List...
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state of Iceland. Iceland was settled in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, principally by people of Norwegian and other Scandinavian origin. In 930,...
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The Lepidoptera of Iceland consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Iceland. Aglais io (Linnaeus, 1758) Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)...
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Pétur Pétursson (bishop) (category 1808 births)
Pétursson (3 October 1808 – 15 May 1891) was a prominent political leader in Iceland, eventually becoming the fourth Bishop of Iceland from 1866 to 1889...
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Konráð Gíslason (category 1808 births)
Gíslason (3 July 1808 – 26 January 1891) was an Icelandic grammarian and philologist, and one of the Fjölnismenn, a group of Icelandic intellectuals who...
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purism in Icelandic is the policy of discouraging new loanwords from entering the Icelandic language by instead creating new words from Old Icelandic and...
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Events in the year 1809 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe Self Proclaimed Protector of Iceland: Jørgen...
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Events in the year 1810 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe Frederik Christopher Trampe is replaced as...
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Events in the year 1806 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe Frederich Christopher Trampe, Count of Trampe...
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Events in the year 1811 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governors of Iceland: Johan Carl Thuerecht von Castenschiold, Stefán Þórarinsson, Ísleifur Einarsson...
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List of European stock exchanges (redirect from List of stock exchanges in Europe)
exchanges; including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with activity in Norway and the Faroe Islands. Central banks and...
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Trankebar) was a surrender of the capital of Danish India, Tranquebar, in 1808 to the British East India Company as a result of the English Wars. The...
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Events in the year 1805 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governors of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson The Bessastaðaskóli is founded. Bjarni Bjarnason, murderer...
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and Norway 1730–1746 Christian VII of Denmark (1749–1808), King of Denmark and Norway 1766–1808 Christian VIII of Denmark (1786–1848), King of Denmark...
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forces on 28 January 1808. The Danes capitulated immediately after the arrival of the British, as the latter's forces were far superior. In 1801, the conflict...
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developments in Iceland. Iceland has never participated in a full-scale war or invasion and the constitution of Iceland has no mechanism to declare war. In the...
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Hallgerður Gísladóttir (1952–2007, Iceland, nf/p) Þórdís Gísladóttir (born 1965, Iceland, ch/p/f) Konráð Gíslason (1808–1891, Iceland, nf) Alfred Gissing (1896–1975...
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Events in the year 1807 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe Trade with Denmark and Norway ends due to...
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Amt (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
abolished in 1904, when Iceland gained home rule from Denmark. Amts are not used to denote a geographical region in Iceland but the name lives on in the names...
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Faust (2011 film) (category Films shot in Iceland)
in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its respective literary adaptations by both Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808)...
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List of countries by average annual labor hours (redirect from List of average annual labor hours in OECD countries)
The average length of working time in different countries depends on a number of economic, social and societal factors. Another important factor is the...
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were not under the rule of the Swedish king yet, as well as in Iceland where the Icelandic Commonwealth serves as an example of an unusually large and...
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Treaty of Kiel (redirect from Norway's loss of Iceland)
with Sweden, in return for Swedish Pomerania. Specifically excluded from the exchange were the Norwegian dependencies of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe...
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These are prose narratives based on historical events that took place in Iceland and the surrounding areas during the Saga Age. Most of these sagas were...
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southernmost point of a small island connected to the coast by a causeway in 1808, so no longer an island. If manmade land is not accepted, the continental...
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observed in ancient sheep remains dating to c. 6000 BCE from Çatalhöyük in modern Turkey. Polycerate sheep breeds include the Hebridean, Icelandic, Jacob...
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