Iceland

Lydveldid Island



YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
874 Independent state Ingolfur Arnarson
1262 Part of Norway Kingdom
1904 1 february Danish self-governing State Hannes Hafstein (I)
1909 31 march Björn Jonssón
1911 14 march Kristján Jónsson
1912 25 july Hannes Hafstein (II)
1914 21 july Sigurdur Eggerz (I)
1915 4 may Einar Arnórsson
1917 4 january Jón Magnússon (I)
1918 1 december Kingdom united to Denmark king Christian X Jón Magnússon (I)
1922 7 march Sigurdur Eggerz (II)
1924 22 march Jón Magnússon (II)
1926 8 july Jón Thorláksson
1927 28 august Tryggvi Thórhallsson
1932 3 june Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
1934 29 july Hermann Jónasson (I)
1942 16 may Ólafur Thors (I)
1942 16 december Björn Thórdarson
1944 17 june Republic Sveinn Björnsson Björn Thórdarson
1944 21 october Ólafur Thors (II)
1947 4 february Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson
1949 6 december Ólafur Thors (III)
1950 14 march Steingrímur Steinthórsson
1952 24 january Steingrímur Steinthórsson, Jón Pálmason, Jón Ásbjörnsson
1952 1 august Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
1953 11 september Ólafur Thors (IV)
1956 24 july Hermann Jónasson (II)
1958 23 december Emil Jónsson
1959 20 november Ólafur Thors (V)
1963 14 november Bjarni Benediktsson
1968 1 august Kristján Eldjárn
1970 10 july Jóhann Hafstein
1971 14 july Ólafur Jóhannesson (I)
1974 28 august Geir Hallgrímsson
1978 1 september Ólafur Jóhannesson (II)
1979 15 october Benedikt Gröndal
1980 8 february Gunnar Thoroddsen
1980 1 august Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
1983 26 may Steingrímur Hermannsson (I)
1987 8 july Thorsteinn Pálsson
1988 28 september Steingrímur Hermannsson (II)
1991 30 april Davíd Oddsson
1996 1 august Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Halldór Ásgrímsson
2006 15 june Geir H. Haarde
2009 26 january Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir

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