Events in the year 2022 in Iceland.
Incumbents
President: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Prime Minister: Katrín Jakobsdóttir Althing: 2021-present Althing Speaker of the Althing: Birgir Ármannsson President of the Supreme Court: Karl Axelsson
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland 4 February – Iceland announces it will end the practice of whaling by 2024, citing the decreasing price of whale meat. 4 April – Icelandic journalists along with others from the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein from obtaining a visa in Russia by a simplified procedure. 17 June – Iceland report their first case of Monkeypox. 21 September – Police arrest four people over a terrorist plot, the first of its kind in Iceland's history.
Deaths
11 January– Arna Schram, journalist (b. 1968) 21 January - Axel Nikulásson, basketball player (b. 1962) 4 February - Dóra Ólafsdóttir, centenarian (b. 1912) 23 March - Guðrún Helgadóttir, children's author and politician (b. 1935) 5 April - Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut (b. 1945) 7 April - Elias Davidsson, composer (b. 1941) 1 July - Árni Gunnarsson, journalist and politician (b. 1940) 17 August - Ingvar Gíslason, politician (b. 1926) 17 September - Hrafn Jökulsson, writer and journalist (b. 1965)
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