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1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

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 A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

- Kristján X *

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 ...

– Jón Magnússon

Events

*15 November – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1919 *

1919 Úrvalsdeild The 1919 season of Úrvalsdeild was the eighth season of league football in Iceland. The same four teams entered this season with KR won their second title and breaking the six-year run of Fram. League standings Valur did not show up against ...

Births

*25 February –

Magnús Kjartansson Magnús Kjartansson (25 February 1919 – 28 July 1981) was an Icelandic journalist, writer, politician and former minister. From 1947 to 1971, he was an editor of ''Thjódviljinn'' newspaper (in Icelandic ''Þjóðviljinn'') that became an orga ...

, journalist, writer and politician (d.

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

). *2 June –

Pétur Sigurgeirsson Pétur Sigurgeirsson (2 June 1919 – 4 June 2010) was the Bishop of Iceland from 1981 until 1989. Biography Pétur was the son of Sigurgeir Sigurdsson who later became Bishop of Iceland and Gudrún Pétursdóttir. He had 3 other siblings and wa ...

, bishop (d. 2010) *21 November – Helgi Hóseasson, carpenter, atheist and socialist (d. 2009)

Deaths

*16 January –

Björn M. Ólsen Björn Magnússon Ólsen (14 July 1850 – 16 January 1919) was an Icelandic scholar and politician. He was a member of the , the first Rector (academia), rector of the University of Iceland, and a professor of Icelandic language and culture ...

, scholar and politician (b. 1850).

References

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