2022 in Iceland
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Events in the year 2022 in Iceland.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
- Prime Minister: Katrín Jakobsdóttir
- Althing: 2021-present Althing
- Speaker of the Althing: Birgir Ármannsson
- President of the Supreme Court: Karl Axelsson
Events
[edit]- Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland
- 4 February – Iceland announces it will end the practice of whaling by 2024, citing the decreasing price of whale meat.[1]
- 4 April – Icelandic journalists along with others from the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein from obtaining a visa in Russia by a simplified procedure.[2]
- 17 June – Iceland report their first case of Monkeypox.[3]
- 21 September – Police arrest four people over a terrorist plot, the first of its kind in Iceland's history.[4]
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January– Arna Schram, journalist (b. 1968)[5]
- 21 January - Axel Nikulásson, basketball player (b. 1962)[6]
- 4 February - Dóra Ólafsdóttir, centenarian (b. 1912)[7]
- 23 March - Guðrún Helgadóttir, children's author and politician (b. 1935)[8]
- 5 April - Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut (b. 1945)[9]
- 7 April - Elias Davidsson, composer (b. 1941)
- 1 July - Árni Gunnarsson, journalist and politician (b. 1940)[10]
- 17 August - Ingvar Gíslason, politician (b. 1926)[11]
- 17 September - Hrafn Jökulsson, writer and journalist (b. 1965)[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Iceland to end whaling as demand dwindles". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "Путин подписал указ о визовых ограничениях для граждан 48 недружественных стран". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "From Iceland — First Monkeypox Cases Diagnosed In Iceland". The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2022-06-09. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Daniel Boffey (22 September 2022). "Icelandic police arrest four people over alleged terror attack plans". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ solveigk (2022-01-12). "Arna Schram látin". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Sigurðsson, Skúli (21 January 2022). "Axel Nikulásson er látinn". Karfan.is. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Pétursson, Vésteinn Örn (2 May 2022). "Dóra Ólafsdóttir, elsti Íslendingurinn, er látin Vísir". visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "Guðrún Helgadóttir, Children's Author, Dies at 86". Iceland Monitor. Archived from the original on 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "Bjarni Tryggvason, one of Canada's original astronauts, dies at 76". collectSPACE.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Sverrisson, Ólafur Björn (7 February 2022). "Árni Gunnarsson látinn - Vísir". visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ "Andlát: Ingvar Gíslason". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-08-27.
- ^ Sæberg, Árni (17 September 2022). "Hrafn Jökulsson er látinn - Vísir". visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2022-09-18.