happened in 1926 in Iceland. Monarch - Kristján X Prime Minister – Jón Magnússon, Magnús Guðmundsson, Jón Þorláksson 1 July – The Icelandic Coast Guard...
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Icelandic population was just over 376,000. About 86,000 residents (23.7%) were of foreign background. About 99% of the nation's inhabitants live in urban...
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króna [ˈkʰrouːna] or krona (sometimes called Icelandic crown; sign: kr; code: ISK) is the currency of Iceland. Like the Nordic currencies (such as the Danish...
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1920 and the Icelandic Coast Guard was formally founded on 1 July 1926. The first cannon was put on the trawler Þór in 1924 and on 23 June 1926 the first...
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Communist Party of Iceland (Icelandic: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands) was a Marxist –Leninist communist party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938. In the early 1920s...
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The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally...
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As of 2024, Iceland does not have a public railway system, although there have been three small short-lived railways in the past. The main reasons for...
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Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland on 1 July 1926. Six seats were elected by proportional representation at the national...
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1926 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1926. 1926 (MCMXXVI)...
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Jón Magnússon (politician) (category Prime ministers of Iceland)
Jón Magnússon (16 January 1859 – 23 June 1926) was an Icelandic politician, and was prime minister of Iceland on two occasions. He served his first term...
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The system of education in Iceland is divided in four levels: playschool, compulsory, upper secondary and higher, and is similar to that of other Nordic...
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Eruptions in Icelandic History". guidetoiceland.is. Guide to Iceland". Retrieved 2022-12-29. "Krafla Travel Guide". guidetoiceland.is. Guide to Iceland". Retrieved...
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Kristján Jónsson (politician) (category Ministers for Iceland)
Kristján Jónsson (4 March 1852 – 2 July 1926) was minister for Iceland from 14 March 1911 to 24 July 1912. He was a member of Althingi 1893 to 1905 and...
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Ari Brynjolfsson (category Icelandic scientists)
Ari Brynjolfsson (1926 – 2013; Icelandic spelling Brynjólfsson) was an Icelandic-American physicist known for his work in America on food irradiation...
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temporarily closed from 1924 to 1926 due to financial costs. King Christian X visited Iceland on 26 June 1921. Iceland became fully independent from Denmark...
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Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson (category Pages with Icelandic IPA)
Modern Icelandic: [ˈr̥apna-ˌflouːcɪ ˈvɪlˌcɛrðarˌsɔːn]; born 9th century) was a Norseman that intentionally sailed to Iceland. His story is documented in the...
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an incomplete list of volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Please see External links below for databases of Icelandic eruptions which include over 530 events...
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Sveinn Björnsson (category Iceland in World War II)
1919–20. After Iceland's independence from Denmark in 1918 he acted as minister to Denmark during 1920–1924 and 1926–1940. Although Iceland had become a...
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Basque–Icelandic pidgin (Basque: Euskoislandiera, Islandiera-euskara pidgina; Icelandic: Basknesk-íslenskt blendingsmál) was a Basque-based pidgin spoken in...
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1906-29. september-1926 (in Icelandic). Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg. Cable & Satellite Yearbook. 21st Century Publishing. 2006. Iceland, The National and University...
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The 1926 Úrvalsdeild is an season of top-flight Icelandic football. For the first time since the inaugural year, 1912, a team outside Reykjavík participated...
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volcanoes in Iceland only includes major active and dormant volcanic mountains, of which at least 18 vents have erupted since human settlement of Iceland began...
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Iceland announced it would be suspending operations at its embassy in Moscow. The Kingdom of Iceland recognized the Soviet Union on June 22, 1926. In...
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Jón Þorláksson (category Prime ministers of Iceland)
Þorláksson (3 March 1877 – 20 March 1935) was prime minister of Iceland from 8 July 1926 to 28 August 1927. He was the only leader of the Conservative Party...
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An Icelandic driving licence (Icelandic: Ökuskírteini) is a permit issued by the Icelandic Transport Authority authorizing its holder to operate a motorized...
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in fishing control and rescue work. After paying for its operational cost for several years, the Icelandic government decided to buy the ship in 1926...
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Prime Minister of Iceland 1926–1927 (b. 1877). 31 July – Tryggvi Þórhallsson, politician (b. 1889). Rothman, Lily (2015-01-28). "Was Iceland Really the First...
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Turkish Abductions (redirect from Ottoman raids on Iceland)
Abductions (Icelandic: Tyrkjaránið [ˈtʰɪr̥caˌrauːnɪθ]) were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algier and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer...
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Ágústsson (category Icelandic-language masculine surnames)
Icelandic politician Guðni Ágústsson (born 1949), Icelandic politician Herbert H. Ágústsson (1926–2017), Icelandic composer and hornist This page lists people...
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shore with a cheque in hand. Gertrude Ederle's successful cross-channel swim began at Gris Nez in France at 07:05 am on 6 August 1926. Her trainer was Burgess...
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