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1842 in Iceland
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1842 Iceland Flag of Denmark.svg 90px Other events in 1842Timeline of Icelandic history
Events in the year 1842 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Monarch: Christian VIII of Denmark
Governor of Iceland: Torkil Abraham HoppeBricka Carl Frederik 76 (Dansk biografisk Lexikon / VIII. Bind. Holst - Juul) https://runeberg.org/dbl/8/0078.html 2024-06-13 runeberg.org da
Events
Linguistic purism in Icelandic: Jónas Hallgrímsson publishes a translation of a textbook on astronomy (Stjörnufræði) which became exemplary for later translations of scientific literature.Jónas Hallgrímsson: The Vastness of the Universe (illus.) https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Jonas/Alheim/Ursin-Tb1.html 2024-05-30 digicoll.library.wisc.eduDagur íslenskrar tungu https://www.stjornarradid.is/verkefni/menningarmal/islensk-tunga/dagur-islenskrar-tungu/ 2024-05-30 www.stjornarradid.is is
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