Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
2022 in Iceland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Events in the year 2022 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Events
- 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]
Remove ads
Deaths
- 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
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads