Events in the year 1828 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe. 14 March 1828: Nathan Ketilsson is murdered by Agnes...
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Iceland spar, formerly called Iceland crystal (Icelandic: silfurberg [ˈsɪlvʏrˌpɛrk], lit. 'silver-rock') and also called optical calcite, is a transparent...
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Þjóðernishyggja is the Icelandic term for nationalism; nationmindedness is a rough translation of the term. Its use was instrumental in the Icelandic movement for...
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Agnes Magnúsdóttir (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
executed in Iceland, along with Friðrik Sigurðsson. The pair were sentenced to death for the murder of Natan Ketilsson, a farmer in Illugastaðir in Vatnsnes...
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Stykkishólmur (category Populated places in Western Region (Iceland))
implemented the Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly (1602 – 1787). From that time trading has been at the heart of the settlement's history. In 1828 Árni Thorlacius...
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Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir) (redirect from Auðr in djúpauðga Ketilsdóttir)
9th-century settler during the age of Settlement of Iceland. The main source of information about her life in Iceland is Sturla Þórðarson's Landnámabók; Laxdæla...
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Capital punishment in Iceland was practiced until 1830, with 240 individuals executed between 1551 and 1830. The methods of execution included beheading...
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Nathan Ketilsson (category 1828 deaths)
Natan Ketilsson (1792 – 14 March 1828) was an Icelandic self-taught physician who last lived at Illugastaðir in Vatnsnes in Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla and was...
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Rasmus Rask (category Icelandic language)
traveled extensively to study languages, first to Iceland, where he wrote the first grammar of Icelandic, and later to Russia, Persia, India, and Ceylon...
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Fridrik Sigurdsson (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
Sigurðsson (c1811 – 12 January 1830) was an Icelandic murderer, the last person to be executed in Iceland, along with Agnes Magnúsdóttir, for the murder...
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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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Johannes (section In other languages)
1973), Icelandic politician Johannes Lötter, a Boer commandant in the Boer War Johannes Lucius, Dalmatian historian Johannes Ludovicus Paquay (1828–1905)...
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in the year 1830 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Lorentz Angel Krieger 12 January: The last executions take place in Iceland at...
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Vatnsdalshólar (category Geography of Iceland)
("Vatnsdalskullarna") is a hill group located in the Northwestern Region, Iceland. They are located at the northern end of Vatnsdalur in an area measuring approximately...
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Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 (category 2026 in science)
coast of Iceland by 65°10.3' N and 25°12.3' W, where the totality will last 2m 18.21s. A partial eclipse will cover more than 90% of the Sun in Ireland...
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Euceraphis punctipennis (category Insects described in 1828)
(Zetterstedt, 1828)" (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2013-01-17. Wratten, S. D. (1974). "Aggregation in the Birch Aphid...
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Canada (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
by various Christian churches and funded by the Canadian government from 1828 to 1997, these boarding schools attempted to assimilate Indigenous children...
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Events in the year 1829 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Lorentz Angel Krieger Lorentz Angel Krieger became the founding Governor...
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case in the Kingdom of Finland and the Kingdom of Hungary, where the royal line was considered extinct in the aftermath of World War I. In Iceland, the...
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song from Orkney. "Bairn". Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828). The University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2012-10-25. Retrieved...
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English language (redirect from Number of words in the English language)
Fingallian dialect and Yola language of Ireland. Like Icelandic and Faroese, the development of English in the British Isles isolated it from the continental...
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Grettis saga (category Pages with Icelandic IPA)
bellicose Icelandic outlaw, set in the 11th c. Grettis saga is considered one of the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), which were written down in the thirteenth...
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(1816–1903), Swedish sign language educator Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir, Icelandic farmer Johanna Bond, American law professor and academic administrator...
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Selkie (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
skin. [citation needed] Selkies have counterparts in other cultures, such as the Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Manx. They are sometimes confused with...
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Republic (redirect from Role of Religion in Republics)
national importance were taken. One such example was the Christianisation of Iceland in 1000, where the Althing decreed that all Icelanders must be baptized into...
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Events in the year 1825 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe. The National Library was moved to the loft of the...
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Events in the year 1831 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Lorentz Angel Krieger Fjallvegafélagið (The Society for Mountain Trails)...
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as Iceland, are not normally associated with the Americas and are therefore excluded from this list. The following is a list of sovereign states in the...
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Freemasonry (redirect from History of Freemasonry in Specific Countries)
with Brethren in Spain, England, France, and Venezuela until after gaining power in Venezuela, he prohibited all secret societies in 1828 and included...
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Nicol prism (category 1828 in science)
polarizing prism, invented in 1828 by William Nicol (1770–1851) of Edinburgh. The Nicol prism consists of a rhombohedral crystal of Iceland spar (a variety of...
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