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1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

Incumbents

* Monarch: Frederik VIII (until 14 May);

Christian X Christian X ( da, Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, in the form of a personal union rather ...

(starting 14 May) *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

– Kristján Jónsson (until 24 July);

Hannes Hafstein Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein (4 December 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an Icelandic politician and poet. In 1904 he became the first Icelander to be appointed to the Danish Cabinet as the minister for Iceland in the Cabinet of Deuntzer a ...

(from 24 July)

Events

*The

1912 Úrvalsdeild The 1912 season of Úrvalsdeild was the first season of league football in Iceland. KR won the first ever title. No teams were relegated as there were only three registered at that time. ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar withdrew after 1 match. League standin ...

season was the first season of league football in Iceland. * Kveldúlfur was established. *

Íshúsfélag Ísfirðinga Íshúsfélag Ísfirðinga (Ísafjörður Freezing Plant Company) was an Icelandic company that produced frozen fish for export. It was established on 7 January 1912 to store frozen bait, and in the 1930s moved into freezing fish. In 1970 Gunnvö ...

was established. *The Farmers' Party was established. *

Bandalag íslenskra skáta Bandalag íslenskra skáta (BIS, ''Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association'') is the national Scouting and Guiding organization of Iceland. Scouting was founded in Iceland in 1912 and was among the earlier members of the World Organization of th ...

was founded.

Births

*8 January –

Sigurður Þórarinsson Sigurdur Thorarinsson ( Icelandic: Sigurður Þórarinsson) (January 8, 1912 – February 8, 1983) was an Icelandic geologist, volcanologist, glaciologist, professor and lyricist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of tephrochronology, and ...

, geologist, volcanologist, and glaciologist (d.

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

Deaths

*31 August –

Indriði Indriðason Indriði Indriðason (12 October 1883 – 31 August 1912) was an Icelandic spiritualist medium. He was the first medium documented in Iceland and his discovery was a major impetus to the establishment of spiritualism there. Life Indriði was ...

, spiritualist medium (b. 1883) *24 November – Björn Jónsson, politician (b. 1846)

References

{{Year in Europe, 1912

Years of the 20th century in Iceland