• Events in the year 1798 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson July 20: The Althing met at Þingvellir for the last...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1798. 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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    Þingvellir (category World Heritage Sites in Iceland)
    parliament of Iceland, which was founded at Þingvellir in 930 and held its sessions there until 1798. A thing was a form of governing assembly found in Germanic...
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  • of Iceland includes vibrant folk and pop traditions, as well as an active classical and contemporary music scene. Well-known artists from Iceland include...
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    Icelanders (redirect from People of Iceland)
    Mist Hardship (Icelandic: Móðuharðindin). In 1798–99, the Alþingi was discontinued for several decades, eventually being restored in 1844. It was moved...
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  • Sigurður (category Pages with Icelandic IPA)
    Sigurður (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪːɣˌʏrðʏr̥]) or Sigurdur may refer to: Sigurður Bragason (born 1954), Icelandic baritone Sigurður Breiðfjörð (1798–1846)...
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  • Events in the year 1840 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VIII of Denmark Governor of Iceland: Carl Emil Bardenfleth The largest recorded surface area of...
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    Silfra (category Underwater diving sites in Iceland)
    Silfra (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪl(v)ra]) is a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American...
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  • Events in the year 1799 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson The Alþingi is held for the first time in Reykjavík....
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  • Events in the year 1800 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson June 6: The Althingi is formally dissolved, with the...
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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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  • Iceland experienced one of its deadliest outbreaks of smallpox beginning in 1707. The epidemic ultimately killed around 12,000 Icelanders, close to one-quarter...
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    2023–2024 mpox epidemic (category August 2024 events in Africa)
    variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), known as clade 1b, began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. As of August 2024, more...
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  • cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Iceland accepted the convention on 19 December 1995...
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  • Timeline of Reykjavík (category Years in Iceland)
    Reykjavík (school) active. 1796 – Lutheran Reykjavík Cathedral built. 1798 – Alþingi (Icelandic assembly, Althingi or Althing) relocated to Reykjavík from Þingvellir...
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  • In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...
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  • Events in the year 1846 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VIII of Denmark Governor of Iceland: Torkil Abraham Hoppe 8 October: Björn Jónsson, politician...
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    Elmo M. Haney (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    baseball team there. Haney also saw duty in Nicaragua, Iceland, and the Amazon. In World War II, Haney fought in the battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester...
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  • Events in the year 1801 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson The Bishop of Iceland position is created, with Geir...
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    This is a partial list of mosques in Europe. Group Lists of mosques Islam in Europe "New Mosque sint-joost". www.brusselnieuws.be. Retrieved 2015-06-09...
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    Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798–1850), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), appeared in the 1820s. The ruling...
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    Hólar (category Populated places in Northwestern Region (Iceland))
    function for southern Iceland), and a cultural and educational centre for almost seven centuries (1106–1798). It was founded as a diocese in 1106 by bishop Jón...
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  • Petronella Breinburg (1927–2019, Surinam/England, ch) Sigurður Breiðfjörð (1798–1846, Iceland, p) Paal Brekke (1923–1993, Norway, p/f/nf) Toril Brekke (born 1949...
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  • List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2024)
    Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands...
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    In the currently ongoing 2024 dengue outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of reported infections surpassed historical records in several...
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    tilfelli apabólu að líkindum verið greind á Íslandi". Embætti landlæknis (in Icelandic). Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022. "New...
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    pieces of lava collected from Iceland. The garden failed to produce much serious growth. Forsyth created a 'plaister' in 1798 made of lime, dung, ashes,...
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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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    had epidemics, beginning with Baltimore in 1794, New York in 1795 and 1798, and Wilmington and Boston in 1798, making yellow fever a national crisis....
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