The following lists events that happened in 1959 in Iceland. President – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson Prime Minister – Emil Jónsson, Ólafur Thors Herjólfur I was...

Iceland is a world leader in renewable energy. 100% of the electricity in Iceland's electricity grid is produced from renewable resources. In terms of...

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...

imposed by the Icelandic government on the stationing of black US troops in Iceland. This ban was disclosed in late 1959. The Icelandic government relented...

1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959. 1959 (MCMLIX) was...

regions of Iceland are eight areas of Iceland that roughly follow the arrangement of parliamentary constituencies as they were between 1959 and 2003. These...

(pronounced [ˈalˌθiɲcɪ]; Icelandic for 'general meeting'), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the...

The politics of Iceland take place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state...

Although Iceland is reliant upon fishing, tourism and aluminium production as the mainstays of its economy, the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses...

Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 June 1959. The Independence Party and the Progressive Party both won 13 seats in the Lower House of the Althing...