Greenland

22 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Greenland, 2006 CE to 2024 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

21st century

22 entries, 2006 CE to 2024 CE

  • 2006October: The Qorlortorsuaq Dam is opened in the Nanortalik district of the Kujalleq municipality.Greenlandsource
  • 20062006 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship.Greenlandsource
  • 2007August 12: Denmark sends a scientific team to the Arctic to try to establish that the Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of Greenland so it can claim sovereignty over oil reserves.Greenlandsource
  • 20072007 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship.Greenlandsource
  • 2007November 25: Agnethe Davidsen, 60, politician, Mayor of Nuuk (1993–2007).Greenlandsource
  • 2008November 26: The Greenlandic self-government referendum passes with 75% approval.Greenlandsource
  • 2008August 1: A total solar eclipse is visible from Greenland.Greenlandsource
  • 2008November 10: Reports surface that a United States nuclear weapon was lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base.Greenlandsource
  • 20082008 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship.Greenlandsource
  • 2009June 2: The Community of the People wins Greenland's parliamentary election.Greenlandsource
  • 20092009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship.Greenlandsource
  • 2010May 3: The European Commission proposes rules for imports of fishery products from Greenland into the EU.Greenlandsource
  • 2010August 24: Cairn Energy discovers gas off the coast of Greenland, amid protests from Greenpeace demanding it halt its oil operations.Greenlandsource
  • 20102010 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship.Greenlandsource
  • 2011May 29: 3 Greenpeace activists successfully evade a Danish warship to scale an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, attempting to begin deepwater drilling in the arctic.Greenlandsource
  • 2011January 11: The Arctic Sun rises over Ilulissat, two days earlier than expected. A possible explanation is alterations in atmospheric refraction or inversion from ice crystals that may or may not be the result of global warming.Greenlandsource
  • 2011March 9: Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated over the past 20 years, according to new research, and will soon become the biggest driver of sea level rise.Greenlandsource
  • 2012December: The KNR2 television channel is established.Greenlandsource
  • 2013August 30: Scientists discover an 800km long canyon that is up to 800m deep in places beneath the ice sheet that covers Greenland.Greenlandsource
  • 2016August 12: Scientists say Greenland sharks are now known to be the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, after researchers at the University of Copenhagen, using radiocarbon dating, determined the ages of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one female was about 400 years old. The former vertebrate record-holder was a Bowhead whale estimated to be 211 years old.Greenlandsource
  • 202014 September – Satellite imagery shows that a big chunk of ice shattered into many small pieces from the last remaining ice shelf in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland.Greenlandsource
  • 202429 June - The yearly Danish royal visit begins. King Frederik and Queen Mary land at Pituffik Space Base and are greeted by Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede.Greenlandsource