Sources: Al Jazeera
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir resigns and announces that she is standing as a candidate for the presidential election on 1 June. 2024-04-5
Icelanders head to the polls to elect the members of the Althing, the oldest surviving parliament in the world. 2021-09-25
Incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson wins re-election with 92% of the votes. 2020-06-28
Citizens of Iceland cast their vote in the latest presidential elections. Incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson is expected to be the clear winner of the election. 2020-06-27
Voters in Iceland head to the polls to elect a new president with a historic low voter turnout expected. Independent candidate Guðni Th. Jóhannesson claims victory. 2016-06-25
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who has been the President of Iceland for 20 years, announces in his new-year speech that he will not seek reelection for a sixth term when presidential elections will be held in June. 2016-01-1
More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to open their homes to Syrian refugees to help with the European crisis.2015-09-1
Icelandic teenager Blaer Bjarkardottir wins a legal fight to use the name given to her by her mother, which the Icelandic Naming Committee had argued was not a proper female given name. 2013-01-31
The President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announces a referendum during a live televised speech. 2010-01-5
A quarter of voters in Iceland sign a petition asking President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto a bill on repaying US$5 billion to foreign savers who lost their money when Icelandic banks collapsed. 2010-01-2