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1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

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, Sigurður Eggerz

Events

*8 July – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1922 *

1922 Úrvalsdeild The 1922 Úrvalsdeild is an season of top-flight Icelandic football. Overview It was contested by 3 teams, and Fram won the championship.

Births

*26 January –

Kristján Karlsson Kristján Karlsson (26 January 1922 – August 5, 2014) was an Icelandic poet and writer born at Eyvík in Tjörnes in Þingeyjarsýsla South. He studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in California, graduating wit ...

, poet (d. 2014) *19 February – Sigfús Sigurðsson, athlete (d. 1999) *3 September –

Björn Th. Björnsson Björn Theodor Björnsson (September 3, 1922 – August 25, 2007) was an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavík. He attended the University of London, University of Edinburgh, and the University of Copenhagen. He was President of the Icelandic write ...

, writer (d. 2007) *23 September –

Einar Ágústsson Einar Ágústsson (23 September 1922 – 12 April 1986) was an Icelandic politician and minister. His son Sigurður become CEO and then chairman of the bank Kaupþing Kaupthing Bank ( is, Kaupþing banki; ) was a major international Iceland ...

, politician (d. 1986). *30 September –

Magnús Helgi Magnússon Magnús Helgi Magnússon (30 September 1922 – 22 August 2006) was an Icelandic politician and former minister for social affairs from September 1978 to February 1980. External links Non auto-biography of Magnús Helgi Magnússon on the pa ...

, politician (d. 2006). *6 October – Alexander Stefánsson, politician (d. 2008)

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Hannes Sigfússon Hannes Sigfússon (1922–1997) was an Icelandic poet and writer. He was an editor of ''Birtingur'', the journal of the Atom Poets The Atom Poets were a group of Icelandic modernist poets working in the wake of modernist poets like Steinn Stein ...

, poet (d. 1997)

Deaths

*13 December –

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 ...

, politician (b. 1861)

References

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Years of the 20th century in Iceland