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1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...

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,

Magnús Guðmundsson Magnús Guðmundsson (6 February 1879 – 28 November 1937) was an Icelandic politician. He graduated in laws from the University of Copenhagen in 1907. Magnus was a member of Althingi for his constituency in North west Iceland from 1916 till t ...

Jón Þorláksson Jón Þorláksson (3 March 1877 – 20 March 1935) was prime minister of Iceland from 8 July 1926 to 28 August 1927. He was the only leader of the Conservative Party (''Íhaldsflokkurinn'') which merged with the Liberal Party to form the Indep ...

Events

*1 July – The Icelandic Coast Guard formally founded *1 July – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1926 *8 July – Cabinet of Jón Þorláksson formed *

1926 Úrvalsdeild The 1926 Úrvalsdeild is an season of top-flight Icelandic football. Overview For the first time since the inaugural year, 1912, a team outside Reykjavík participated, taking the number of teams to an unprecedented five. Like the first year Í ...

Births

*28 March –

Ingvar Gíslason Ingvar Gíslason (28 March 1926 – 17 August 2022) was an Icelandic politician, the minister of education, science and culture from 1980 to 1983 and a speaker of the lower house of the Althing The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Iceland ...

, politician *18 April – Indriði G. Þorsteinsson, writer (d. 2000) *7 November – Ólafur Hannesson, footballer *11 November –

Torfi Bryngeirsson Torfi Bryngeirsson (11 November 1926 – 16 July 1995) was an Icelandic athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 195 ...

, athlete (d. 1995).

Deaths

*23 June – Jón Magnússon, politician (b. 1859). *2 July – Kristján Jónsson, politician (b. 1852).

References

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Years of the 20th century in Iceland