events that happened in 1940 in Iceland. Monarch - Kristján X Prime Minister – Hermann Jónasson 10 May - The British Invasion of Iceland begins. 11 January...

British invasion of Iceland (codenamed Operation Fork) by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Royal Marines occurred on 10 May 1940, during World War II...

presence in Iceland, along with the island’s strategic importance, alarmed the British. On 9 April 1940, Germany overran Denmark, Iceland's former mother...

– after the German invasion of Denmark in 1940 – a regent was appointed. Because of the Kalmar Union, Iceland had been under the control of the Crown...

World War II. However, the British invaded Iceland on 10 May 1940. On 7 July 1941, the defence of Iceland was transferred from Britain to the United States...

recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway...

Kingdom's invasion of Iceland on 10 May 1940. Agnar wanted to expand the forces, but the Icelandic Minister of Justice rejected his proposal. In mid-1941 while...

Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...

to Iceland in 1919 and Iceland reciprocated in 1920, opening an Embassy in Copenhagen. Iceland established its own Foreign Service in April 1940 when...

Icelandic population was just over 376,000. About 86,000 residents (23.7%) were of foreign background. About 99% of the nation's inhabitants live in urban...