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Reykjavík

capital and largest city in Iceland

25 dated entries naming Reykjavík, drawn from 22 separate years between 874 CE and 1986 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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9th century

  • 874Ingólfr Arnarson arrives from Norway, as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland. He builds his homestead and founds Reykjavík. The settlement of Iceland begins (approximate date).source

18th century

  • 1754March 19:The counties of Gullbringu and Kjósarsýsla are formed by the merger of two counties.source
  • 1785The decision to move Skálholtsskóli to Reykjavík is made, with teaching beginning at Hólavallaskóli a year later.source
  • 1786August 18 – The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway charters six settlements in Iceland to trade with it, thus ending the Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly, and founding Reykjavík.source
  • 1786November 17 – Six locations are granted municipal rights. This year is regarded as the founding of Reykjavík.source
  • 1793A school cairn, a rectangular stone tower, was erected at Skólvörðuholt in Reykjavík, where a statue of Leifur Eiríksson now stands.source
  • 1799The Alþingi is held for the first time in Reykjavík. The assembly was held in Hólavallarskóli.source

19th century

  • 180110 August: With the Althing being disbanded by royal decree in the year prior, a new High Court in Reykjavík took over the functions of Lögrétta. The three appointed judges convened in Hólavallarskóli.source
  • 1803April 15 – Reykjavík is made a special jurisdiction with its own magistrate by royal decree. The first person to hold that position was the Dane Rasmus Frydensberg. His representative was Finnur Magnússon. In addition, two police officers were appointed, both of whom were Danish.source
  • 1804Murderer Bjarni Bjarnason from Sjöundá escaped from prison in Reykjavík. He was caught again two weeks later.source
  • 1822June – August: Following an eruption the previous year, another sequence of explosive eruptions occurred at Eyjafjallajökull The eruption columns were shot to considerable heights, with ashfall in both the far north of the country, in Eyjafjörður, and in the southwest, on the peninsula of Seltjarnarnes near Reykjavík.source
  • 1826The Bishop of Iceland establishes residency at Laugarnes near Reykjavík.source
  • 1844The Althing, Iceland's supreme national parliament is restored by royal decree and moved to Reykjavík, after being made defunct in 1800.source
  • 18451 July: The first Consultative assembly finally met on 1 July 1845 in Reykjavík.source
  • 1885The National Bank (Landsbanki) is founded in Reykjavik.source
  • 1891Icelandic Police began operating in places outside of Reykjavíksource
  • 1894Hið íslenska kvenfélag is founded in Reykjavík.source
  • 1899February 16 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, the first Association football club in Iceland, is established in Reykjavík.source
  • 189916 February – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur is established in Reykjavík.source

20th century

  • 190322 February – The Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík is consecrated in Reykjavik.source
  • 1906A submarine telegraph cable was laid by the Great Northern Telegraph Co. from Scotland through the Faroe Islands to Iceland, where it came ashore on the east coast at Seyðisfjörður. In conjunction a telegraph and telephone line, was laid from the landing point to the capital city Reykjavík. This established Síminn (originally Landssími Íslands).source
  • 1950Heiðmörk was proclaimed a municipal conservation area of Reykjavík.source
  • 1972July 11 – The long anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and United States champion Bobby Fischer, begins in Iceland at Reykjavík.source
  • 1972September 1 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.source
  • 1986October 11–12 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe, which end in failure.source

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