Events in the year 2022 in Greenland.

Incumbents

Margrethe II Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is Queen of Denmark. Having reigned as Denmark's monarch for over 50 years, she is Europe's longest-serving current head of state and the world's only incumbent femal ...

* High Commissioner –

Julie Præst Wilche Julie Præst Wilche (born 1971 or 1972) is a Danish civil servant and diplomat. Since 2022, she serves as High Commissioner of Greenland. Biography Wilche trained as a nurse in Denmark before moving to Greenland in the early 1990s. In 2009, she ...

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of governm ...

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Múte Bourup Egede Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede (; born 11 March 1987) is a Greenlandic politician currently serving as the seventh prime minister of Greenland, a position he has held since April 2021. He has served as a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament ...

Events

Ongoing —

COVID-19 pandemic in Greenland The COVID-19 pandemic in Greenland is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Greenland, an autonomous ter ...

June

* 14 June – Whisky War: The Danish Foreign Ministry announces that it has reached a deal with Canada to divide the long-disputed

Hans Island Hans Island ( Inuktitut and kl, Tartupaluk, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; da, Hans Ø; french: Île Hans) is an island in the very centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of ...

in the Arctic in half between Canada's

Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...

territory and Greenland.

Sports

* 18 July – 13 August:

2022 Greenlandic Football Championship The 2022 GrønlandsBANKEN GM is the 52nd edition of the Greenlandic Football Championship. The final round was held in Ilulissat from August 8 to 13.Thue Christiansen Thue Christiansen (25 February 1940 – 26 June 2022) was a Greenlandic teacher, visual artist, and politician. Christiansen is best known as the designer of the current flag of Greenland, which was adopted on 21 June 1985. A trained teacher, C ...

, 82, Greenlandic visual artist and politician, designer of the flag of Greenland and minister of education (1979–1983) * 4 September – Hendrik Nielsen, 80, Greenlandic politician, MP (1979–1991)

References

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