All about Iceland

Answer 1

A quick history lesson about Iceland:


Ingolf Arnarson, or Ingólfur Arnarson in modern Icelandic, was the first confirmed
Norseman to permanently settle Iceland in 874 AD. By 930 AD most arable land was considered claimed and Iceland was first officially founded as a state with the foundation of the national parliament Alþingi in 930 AD.
But the quite mad Norwegian King claimed that Icelanders, (most of whom came from Norway) belonged to the Norwegian Throne, and in 1262 Iceland was annexed by Norway.


In 1380, Norway (and thus Iceland) became part of the Kalmar Union along with Sweden and Denmark, with Denmark as the dominant power.


The Kalmar Union was dissolved in 1523, and Denmark and Norway entered a personal union in ~1536 and was therefore known as.. "Denmark-Norway".


In 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Dano-Norwegians, which were on the Frenchies side, got "defeated" by some measures, and Norway was ceded to Sweden
(Sweden-Norway, or United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway)... But Iceland was kept as a Danish possession.


In the 19th century a man named Jón Sigurðsson, (or Jon Sigurdsson) which is quite worshiped in Iceland as he was the leader of the independence movement.. But he died. In eighteen-seventy-nine.


But thanks to him (to some extent, maybe) the idea of once more independent Iceland, with a series of extended autonomy of Icelanders created the "Kingdom of Iceland", in 1918.. It was ruled by the Danish king, but it was a fully sovereign country, nonetheless.
But that was, sort of dissolved because of Nazi problems in Denmark in 1944, and Iceland became a republic, whilst British and later American and Canadian troops were occupying Iceland.. So the Nazis wouldn't get us aswell.


After the republicization of Iceland, Iceland unofficially entered "war" with the U.K. sparked by other 15th and 19th century incidents..
Some involving murder..
But most involving fish.

They humourously named it the "Cod Wars"..
But the "war" mostly involved several cases of vessels ramming each other.
By 1975 the Icelanders were victorious, the British having to fish at British shores, rather that the shores of Iceland..

1980: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes president of Iceland, the first woman in the world to become elected head of state.

In 2006 the before-mentioned Americans hand their military base over to the Icelandic government, after a ~60 year military presence in Iceland since the Second World War.

Then, in 2008 a huge-ass banking collapse financial crisis thing happens, and the British once more get angry at their northern neighbours.

In February 2009 After the collapse of the Icelandic government, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir becomes the first female prime minister of Iceland and the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era.
Then, in October 2009 I myself write this magnificent answer to your question.

More is yet to be known..